I don’t know if Craig Newmark intended this post to be a meme, but what the hey, I’m taking that ball and running with it.
First, read the post and all the great things several nonprofiteers are going to be working on in 2012. And we all know that associations also are doing great things to make the world better. Great inspiration here – large and small count!!
What can I do?, you might be thinking. But surely, amidst all of the trends and predictions and resolutions posts that happen every year around this time, there’s room for some constructive stuff that’s neither navel-gazing nor so general/global/futuristic as to be not meaningful for you, right now. I think that everyone, whether you work for a charitable nonprofit, association, consulting firm, technology vendor, agency etc. has the capacity to make life better. For others. For obvious social good reasons, but also to advance our specific professions and industries, and to advance the nonprofit industry as well. This is why we’re all here, right? This is our mission. This is about our work. SO – I would love to hear what ideas everyone has to make things better in 2012.
As for me, it shouldn’t be a surprise for you to know that I plan – with Jamie’s help – to keep helping organizations to unplug from the machine world and become more human, more successful, to flourish more. I want to write more about social business too, because the implementation part is super important and can help us get there. I also can’t wait to really dive into a year of deep social learning - I think this concept is crucially important for associations who want to get beyond being just relevant to their members. It’s important from an ROI point of view, from a member engagement point of view, from a social CRM point of view. Learning should be at the core of everything we all do – John Graham even defines associations as learning communities in his op-ed letter to the Washington Post.
Simple, yet hard work. And I can’t wait.
So, enough from me! I’d like to hear from you!! Therefore tagging:
the J’s:
some association awesomeness
- Elizabeth Engel
- Shannon Otto
- Aaron Wolowiec
- Lowell Applebaum
- Chris Urena
- Ray van Hilst
- Patrick Dorsey
- Stefanie Reeves
- Todd Carpenter
some nonprofit goodness
Here’s how it works – whether you’re tagged here or not, please write a quick blog post or share a comment, and tag some more people. Simple. Yay!
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Challenge accepted!
The J’s, love it! Because I heart you Maddie, I will do both a comment and blog post. So what am I going to do the change the world in 2012? Challenge assumptions and stereotypes. Stay tuned! Tagging a couple of my DELP peeps Stephanie Doute and Bana Qashu.
Yay that is so perfect!!
Social learning requires a certain amount of effort to maintain regular contact and association with our colleagues. Developing social learning practices, like keeping a work journal, may be an effort at first but later it’s just part of the work process. Bloggers have learned how powerful a learning medium they have only after blogging for an extended period. With the increased use of distributed work groups, it is even more important to foster social learning and web media are the current tools at hand.
This is a great idea. I’m doing it!
I’m in!
Thanks to Stefanie Reeves for directing my attention to this post! I’m going to spend more time in 2012 volunteering for non-profits that deal with causes about which I am passionate. Read: I’ll be dedicating a lot of my time helping the less fortunate and working on social justice issues. And working to get others involved, too. I may be blogging on this in the coming week, as well.
Happy to respond and invite others … http://www.marinermanagement.com/idea-center/20120102/meme-time-how-are-you-going-to-change-the-world-in-2012
I’m in and will post Wednesday the 4th or next week. If typical style, I’m going to address the language in the question itself and perhaps reframe it a bit. Thanks for tagging/inviting.
I, too, am happy to accept your challenge, Maddie. Everyone can find my post — Changing the world (that is, Michigan) in 2012 — here: http://aaronwolowiec.com.
Serve the masses one day at a time. Find the right vehicle to give hope in tough economic times. We need to encourage , inspire and support one another even if we are not in the same business together. Each one can teach one. No one person or one organization has all the right answers.
Having begun my career in the public interest sector, I spent every day working to change the world and trying to make it better for others. It was a way of thinking that I just took for granted.
It’s refreshing that you raised the issue here, Maddie, because associations don’t exist to make the world better for everyone. They exist to make the world better for their members, and many of their members are actually making the world a worse place for a whole lot of people (Oops! We’re not supposed to say stuff like that).
But if individuals do something to improve the world, that will be a very good thing. Hopefully, their associations won’t mess things up too much. I’ll post something, too.
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