Chad Barr
APRIL 26, 2008
My wife and I traveled to Utah via Las Vegas this past week. Since I had some business calls to take care of, I asked my wife if she would not mind driving the beautiful route from Vegas to Utah while I make these calls. She of course agreed and with my Latte in one hand, I pulled out my iPhone, connected my Apple bluetooth headset and started to make my calls.
The Nonprofit Consultant
APRIL 15, 2008
Let's face it: board committees are usually bored committees, and rarely get anything done unless it's task and time specific, so why not just abolish them? At least, that's the question being asked in the premier issue of 'Blue Avocado' - the new online magazine for people working and volunteering in the nonprofit sector. The site, directed and edited by Jan Masaoka (my former boss at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services), is "half magazine, half blog, half website" and its "aim is to engage and sup
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The Crazy Lives of Consultants
APRIL 15, 2008
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Tuesday, April 15, 2008. When Youre Too Platinum with the Hotel. Good Consultants! Like you, I have Platinum Status with just about ever hotel, airline, rental car agency, and liquor store in the Continental United States. DOUBLE Platinum with some, Id like to point out. Now, let me tell you a tale of a crazy consultant who officially reached "Too Platinum status with the Intercontinental Hotel Group.
Chad Barr
APRIL 19, 2008
I just returned for another absolutely outstanding event – The Million Dollar Consulting College Graduate School held at the gorgeous Ritz Carlton in Naples Florida. “These people represent the finest talent in the profession,” noted Alan Weiss, Ph.D. who conducts this college. “They are the best of the best in terms of methodology, integrity, client satisfaction, and contributions to the profession.
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The Nonprofit Consultant
APRIL 10, 2008
On Saturday May 10 I will be taking part in the Human Race , a fundraising event for Silicon Valley nonprofit organizations. The Human Race is an annual event produced by the Volunteer Center of Silicon Valley that brings together hundreds of organizations from Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. Taking part in an event like this provides each organization a "ready-made" fundraising event, without the hassle, effort, or costs of developing one of their own.
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Chad Barr
APRIL 2, 2008
In my previous post I was talking about having to listen to absurd and ineffective voicemails when calling others. I recently played several voicemail (VM) messages that I retrieved from my own voicemail system. The first VM was a garbled message from a prospective client interested in talking with me about our solutions. The message was probably recorded using his cell phone making it almost impossible to recognize the complete phone number.
The Nonprofit Consultant
APRIL 2, 2008
Just a quick note today: There's a new link in the "Blogroll" on the left side to IssueLab's newsfeed. IssueLab "is an online publishing forum for nonprofit research. Each month we do an editorial CloseUp on a different issue that nonprofits are addressing in their own research work. This month we are focusing on research related to the issue of Volunteerism.
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