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Just to toss out there, I’ve been thinking about changes in the volunteer sphere over time. Back in the ’70s when I started work in this field, there seemed to be a core of what I’d now call "traditional volunteers," people (most often women) who adopted a cause and an organization and then proceeded to dedicate many hours over many ...

US News and World Reports has an article on its Web site about "customer evangelists."  With corporate evangelism, the goal is to find and identify those customers who are already crazy about your product or service–who are actively talking it up in blogs or Web forums, for instance–and turning them with loads of personal attention into "customer evangelists" who then ...

If you take a look at Les Blogs 2.0 you will see quite an interesting list of emerging technologies VIPs at this two-day meeting in Paris Dec. 5 and 6. I like the sessions titled: Eight ideas that will really revolutionize the 21st century (and why blogging isn’t one of them), How to socialize in the year 2055, and the ...

I was privileged to present, alongside Stowe Boyd and others, to the recent AMA Hot Topic event titled Getting Ahead of the Curve. The attendees were a fantastic mix of diverse and outgoing people. As part of my presentation I directed our group in the construction of a very rough, and I do mean rough, Social Network Articulation. We used ...