Posted in follower, imitation, investment, kansas city, leader, lifecycle, marketing, network, non profit, nonprofit, parable of tribes, social media, social network, spur communications, SPURspectives, transformation, twitter, Uncategorized, web on Oct 29th, 2009
I used to teach. I was on the design faculty at The Ohio State University. It’s a wonderful way to live and I’m very glad that I had the opportunity to do so. The kids are fantastic and it’s great fun to help them learn and explore their creative intelligence. The role I most enjoyed [...]
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Posted in community, consumer behavior, consumer perception, customer engagement, customer interaction, follower, leader, marketing, parable of tribes, social marketing, social network, spur communications, SPURspectives, Uncategorized on Oct 22nd, 2009
Have you heard the snickers about the supposed new civility that’s emerged recently? It’s been in the headlines coming out of Washington referring to the ratcheted up rhetoric, accusations, and shouting. It’s been in the sports pages with coaches punching coaches and basketball teams fighting with football teams. It’s become a daily event on talk [...]
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Posted in community, consumer behavior, consumer engagement, customer engagement, customer interaction, donor, donor engagement, follower, investment, leader, lifecycle, marketing, network, non profit, nonprofit, parable of tribes, social branding, social marketing, social media, social network, spur communications, SPURspectives, transformation, web on Oct 15th, 2009
This post is part of Blog Action Day: Bloggers vs. Climate Change sponsored by Change.org I am not a scientist. I am not an expert on climate change. I am just a guy in Kansas. But, I get to travel some and what I see causes me great concern. The world continues to industrialize at [...]
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Posted in community, donor, donor engagement, economic recession, follower, fundraising, leader, lifecycle, non profit, nonprofit, parable of tribes, spur communications, SPURspectives, transformation, tribes on Jul 13th, 2009
A friend and her son just returned from a trip to Africa to visit her niece in the Peace Corps. The niece has spent the last two years in a very remote village in Zambia helping to build wells for drinking water. The village is so remote that the car my friend arrived in was [...]
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Marketing guru Seth Godin has us all abuzz about creating and empowering our tribes — our group of like-minded individuals who choose to better the world by following their chosen leader. This is a wonderful idea and I’m happy to participate. Tribes are cool. They empower people to make good things happen and we accomplish [...]
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