I have accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin, and I write blog posts here at least twice a week. I don’t spend too much time on any of them, but this analysis from Alan Weiss on the potential for social media to eat away at your time is pretty disturbing. His analysis: If people visit […]
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I recently spoke at a meeting for the Canadian Society of Association Executives on how to use my seven step process for selecting a new association management system. While discussing the seven steps, a member of the audience asked me where the step was for choosing a consultant. I demurred, thinking he was joking, but
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I like to give props to AMS vendors when they do something really smart. I’ve written about Avectra’s publicly available wiki here. The wiki alone is pretty cool. But here is some content which I think is extremely useful and demonstrates nice transparency on Avectra’s part. The wiki entry explains how the transition from implementation
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This is the last in a series of tips from my book, Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database. I’ve been asked by several people which of the tips are my favorites. So this series of blog posts focuses on five of them. Each of these tips is
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This is the fourth in a series of tips from my book, Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database, I’ve been asked by several people which of the tips are my favorites. So this series of blog posts focuses on five of them. Each of these tips is
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This is the third in a series of tips from my book, Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database, I’ve been asked by several people which of the tips are my favorites. So this series of blog posts focuses on five of them. Each of these tips is
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This is the second in a series of tips from my book, Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database, I’ve been asked by several people which of the tips are my favorites. So this series of blog posts focuses on five of them. Each of these tips is
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With the recent release of my book, Put Your Data to Work: 52 Tips and Techniques for Effectively Managing Your Database, I’ve been asked by several people which of the tips are my favorites. So this next series of blog posts will focus on that. Each of these tips is reproduced verbatim from the book.
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I’ve seen this quote attributed to Aristotle, among others. Not sure who said it, but it rings true when it comes to database management. I’ve long been an advocate of decentralized data entry. (See here and here.) But what’s missing in all of this is that while data entry can be decentralized, overall management of
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I read in the Wall St. Journal that US airlines have finally begun adopting some CRM (customer relationship management) tools and processes to help identify their best customers in order to provide better services. Hallelujah and welcome to the mid-1990s! That the airlines are only now adopting CRM principles is a testament to just how
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