A PDF of the slides from my presentation, "Solving 21st Century Problems: How Associations Can Innovate to Thrive," held on March 4, 2010 at the Hilton Alexandria Old Town.
5. social future
the emerging ecology of people
and platforms that enable
interdependent collaboration
and distributed value creation
6. Number of Web
users worldwide
in 2000/2010:
360 million/1.7 billion
U.S. cell phone
penetration in
2000/2010:
34%/89%
Source: Fast Company (March 2010)
7. “Meaning is the new currency.
What we need now are
people who are willing to
break the typical rules of
business and re-imagine the
pressing issues of our time.”
--Doreen Lorenzo, frog design
8. what does it mean
to be a 21st century
association?
9. the thrivable 21st
century association will
be intentional about
solving its stakeholders’
most difficult problems
10. "Intention is the active
partner of attention; it is
the way we convert our
automatic processes into
conscious ones."
--Deepak Chopra
16. how is your association
helping its members
manage increasingly
strong and rapid flows of
information and
knowledge?
17.
18. According to one estimate,
mankind created 150
exabytes (billion gigabytes)
of data in 2005. This year, it
will create 1,200 exabytes.
--The Economist (2/25/10)