Demystifying Communities of Practice webinar

Fusion Productions presents...

Demystifying Communities of Practice and Social Networking:
A webinar exclusively for association executives

Facilitating member networking is a key value proposition for associations. Helping your members connect is worth more than you realize, and it's easier than you think to get started.

If you are a CEO, Senior Staff Member, Volunteer Leader, or a Stakeholder in your association's membership, this webinar will help you:

• Connect more of your members in more ways
• Engage with your members at greater levels
• Stimulate member activity
• Provide a single, standard forum for written and verbal collaboration
• Support your members as they work to advance in their careers

Facilitator: Don Dea, Co-Founder, Fusion Productions

Featuring:

• Andy Steggles, Chief Information Officer, Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc.
• Roberta Gorman, Director, Membership Development, ASME
  

Agenda:

• Web 2.0 and Social Networking, an overview
• Association Trends and Practices
• Live demos of working association communities of practice
• Best Practices Checklist and Lessons Learned
• Q&A
  

Pre-registration is required. Reserve your spot now!

Take a sneak peek at what the Fusion Productions e.Comm.unity has to offer.

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Visit our Web site to learn more about the
Fusion e.Comm.unity platform - the first community platform
to fully integrate social networking tools!

Questions? Contact:
Theresa DeConinck
Director, Association Services - eLearning and Technology
tdeconinck@fusionproductions.com
703-430-7459
www.fusionproductions.com

Fusion Productions - Integrating Meetings, Learning, and Technology

Learn more about Communities of Practice and other trends in technology at DigitalNow, April 23-26, 2008, at Disney's Contemporary Resort in Orlando, Florida.

DigitalNow- the proven leadership summit for associations.

Early Bird Registration ends 1/31/2008 – Register now!

Contribute to the DigitalNow blog. Suggest a blog topic, or reference an article or other item you think would be of interest to the DigitalNow community. Drop us a line at DigitalNow@fusionproductions.com


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Business Technology Trends to Watch

A recent report published in The McKinsey Quarterly identifies eight emerging trends that are transforming many markets and businesses. Among these are:

• Distributing cocreation
• Using consumers as innovators
• Tapping into a world of talent
• Extracting more value from interactions
• Expanding the frontiers of automation
• Unbundling production from delivery
• Putting more science into management
• Making businesses from information

Report authors James M. Manyika, Roger P. Roberts, and Kara L. Sprague, state that executives should learn to shape the outcome rather than just react to it. Read the report.

Learn more about trends in technology and business and how they translate to associations at DigitalNow, April 23-26, 2008, at Disney's Contemporary Resort in Orlando, Florida.

Early Bird Registration ends 1/31/2008 – Register now!

DigitalNow- the proven leadership summit for associations.

Contribute to the DigitalNow blog. Suggest a blog topic, or reference an article or other item you think would be of interest to the DigitalNow community. Drop us a line at DigitalNow@fusionproductions.com


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DigitalNow 2008 session updates

In addition to our line-up of A-list keynote speakers, we are excited to announce the following sessions:

• Web 3.0 – The 3^rd Generation is coming! Presented by Nova Spivack, CEO and Founder of RadarNetworks.com.
• The Technological Imagination - Presented by Anne Balsamo, PhD, author of Designing Culture: A Work of the Technological Imagination
• The Three Cs of Value: Content, Context, and Connections - Presented by Ellen Wagner, Senior Director of Worldwide E-Learning Solutions with Adobe Systems, Inc. Ellen will be joined by a panel of association CEOs who will discuss how to deliver the 3 Cs of value: Content, Connections, and Context - in a world that is connected always and in all ways.
• Leadership and Governance 2.0-Making tough decisions in challenging times - Moderated by Paul Pomerantz, Executive Director, American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS).
• Bringing your Web Site to Life with Personas - Presented by Tamara Adlin, Founder and Principal of Adlin, Inc. and former Senior Customer Experience Specialist with Amazon.com.
• ROI of Social Networking - Presented by Ben Martin, CAE, Director of Communications and New Media, Virginia Association of REALTORS®
• The ABCs of eLearning presented by Sherry Budziak, President, .orgSource.
• Giving 2.0 - Online engagement for cause related web sites - Presented by Marcia Stepanek, Editor of Contribute magazine.
• Onward and Upward: Taking CoP to the Next Level - Presented by Jim Lee, PMP, Practice Leader, Knowledge Management, APQC.
• Media 2.0: The Future of Publishing - Presented by Eric Hellweg, Executive Editor, Harvard Business Review Online, and Gary Rubin, Chief Publishing and e-Media Officer, Group Publisher, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Read more about these sessions.

More exciting program developments to be announced soon. Subscribe to the DigitalNow blog to receive all the latest DigitalNow news.

NEW for 2008: Interactive Technology demos
The Internet is rife with tools that can help you achieve your association's objectives – and many of them are completely cost free. All you need is a little know-how. For DigitalNow 2008, we’ve extended our breaks and on Thursday and Friday and have incorporated compact, powerful interactive demos, presented by technology experts who know associations. Get hands-on, first-hand experience with some of the most valuable tools you never knew existed.

Early Bird Registration ends 1/31/2008 – Register now!

Contribute to the DigitalNow blog. Suggest a blog topic, or reference an article or other item you think would be of interest to the DigitalNow community. Drop us a line at DigitalNow@fusionproductions.com

DigitalNow- the proven leadership conference for associations.

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Day of The Long Tail: A faux movie trailer

It may be stranger than fiction, but it's true: the power of the Internet continues to shift increasingly into the hands of the consumer/end user.

For associations, this means that more and more, members are defining the mode and level of engagement with your web site and with your organization.

Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More makes his point in this faux movie trailer.

(If the view window does not appear below, you may view the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xAA71Ssids)



Chris is delivering the opening keynote at DigitalNow 2008. He will be demonstrating the power of the "long tail", exploring the implications for associations, followed a live Q&A.

Learn more about the latest trends in technology at DigitalNow in April 2008.

Registration is now open. Additional DigitalNow keynotes include Jeremy Gutsche, Founder of TrendHunter.com, Dan Heath, author of Made to Stick, and Business Week columnist Jeneanne Rae.

More exciting program developments to be announced soon. Subscribe to the DigitalNow blog to receive all the latest DigitalNow news.

Contribute to the DigitalNow blog. Suggest a blog topic, or reference an article or other item you think would be of interest to the DigitalNow community. Drop us a line at DigitalNow@fusionproductions.com

DigitalNow- the proven leadership conference for associations.

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