Today I stumbled across the WOMBAT (Word of Mouth Basic Training) podcasts. I’ve not had much time to explore them, but they promise to be interesting. Some of the interviewees include: Ed Keller, who co-wrote the book The Influentials with Jon Berry Greg Stielstra, author of PyroMarketing: The Four Step Strategy to Ignite Customer Evangelists and Keep Them For Life. ...

Right after posting on "The Selfish Volunteer", I noticed David’s post on Self-organizing action. My interest piqued, I popped on over to Emergency Communities and found a very interesting quote that dovetails nicely with my previous post and even more so with Ed Duke’s post, The New Unaffiliated Volunteers. …in the midst of all this devastation, something beautiful happened. Volunteers, ...

David was looking out for me today and sent me a short article on the rise of the selfish volunteer. Volunteers get both intrinsic and extrinsic value out of the act of volunteering. This article focuses on the extrinsic. From the article. Volunteers are increasingly interested in what they can get out of volunteering, and nonprofits must adapt, a new ...

A big thank you to Marshall Kirkpatrick for pointing me toward CPsquare.org CPsquare is the community of practice on communities of practice. From their site. CPsquare is like a town square, a place where people gather to connect and learn together. Where many of us are joining in this enterprise from a variety of organizations in the private and public ...