Duties and Responsibilities of Cooperative Board Members | Cooperative Grocer Members of the board of directors of a cooperative have the same duties and responsibilities as do board members of any other business. In addition, they have a few other responsibilities that are unique to cooperative board members. Unique Duties and Responsibilities. One important function of the cooperative board is to educate members about their organization. General Duties and Responsibilities. (a) A director shall discharge his (sic) duties as a director, including his (sic) duties as a member of a committee: (1) in good faith; (2) with the care an ordinarily prudent person in a like position would exercise under similar circumstances; and (3) in a manner he (sic) reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the corporation. (b) In discharging his (sic) duties a director is entitled to rely on information, opinions, reports, or statements, including financial statements and other financial data, if prepared or presented by: Duty of Attention/Diligence. Duty of Loyalty.
Laid-off to CEO: 6 Steps to Building Your Business | Under30CEO Back in November 2008, I was laid off from a job that I hated. At a time when everything seemed uncertain, there were two things I was absolutely sure of. First, I absolutely love everything about marketing. And second, I wanted to start a company of my own. I also knew that I was going to have to bootstrap a service-based business because I didn’t have a lot of money to invest in creating a product. This is how I went from being laid off to a 29 year old CEO of a marketing firm. Identify a skill that adds value After I was laid off, I realized that I needed to perfect a skill that adds value to the business community. Chances are, you already have the skills to contribute to an organization or consumer. The one caveat that I would add is make sure that you absolutely love the skill that you bring to the table. Learn how to sell… and copywrite Once you’ve identified or mastered your skill, you must learn how to sell it. Don’t worry about putting together a huge marketing plan at this time.
David Karp: Tumblr's Revenue Model Is All About Telling Stories In a fireside chat with MG Siegler at TechCrunch Disrupt Monday, Tumblr founder David Karp described how his company thinks differently about advertising than Facebook or Google, and how they hope to make it less distracting and more meaningful to users. In short, it’s all about telling stories. Karp said that for Tumblr, the stuff that appears in the main feed is pretty sacred, as it’s all content that users have chosen to subscribe to. Instead of inserting branded content into the stream in the same way that companies like Twitter are beginning to do, Tumblr has instead reserved the right-side column for content that users may not have seen. But the differences go deeper than that — Karp wants brands and marketers to use Tumblr as a way to tell stories that they can’t otherwise tell on other social networks or with search ads. “We want to make some real estate available not just to big brands, but to carve it out for people that are already a part of the network,” Karp said.
Preparation for Nonprofit Micro-eMBA(SM) Program Free Management Library's Online Nonprofit Organization Development Program Module #1: (includes recommendations to large amount of free, online resources) © Copyright Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, Authenticity Consulting, LLC. (This module is in the nonprofit organization development program. Also seeRelated Library Topics This module helps you get ready for the program by providing guidelines to get the most out of the program, along with suggesting numerous free, online resources of which you might take advantage. As with any learning module in this program, you'll get the most if you read all materials, consider each question for discussion and reflection, discuss information and materials with others, complete suggested activities and apply assessments as appropriate. Lastly, congratulations, on your own initiative and commitment to your learning! Also seeRelated Library Topics Learners who complete this module will achieve the following outcomes: 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1. 2.
13 Business Books That Will Blow Your Mind Having never taken a business class in college I find that I read and listen to a lot of business books to round out my education. The books usually aren't "How to Manage Your Cash Flow" but rather get me to rethink the way I run my business, which--despite no business classes or diploma--continues to be in business 13 plus years after I started it. In that time, here are 13 of the books that had the biggest impact on how I run my business (in no particular order): Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink: If you supervise anyone in your business, this book is a must read. The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham: I wanted to have at least one book that was dedicated to small business and the entrepreneurial spirit. The beauty of this list is that I get to leave off a whole bunch of mind-blowing business books that you can't believe didn't make the list.
Fennec M9 (user experience alpha) for Maemo release notes This is an early developer release of the mobile version of Firefox, for testing purposes only, intended to: get wider community feedback on our approach to the user experienceengage Mozilla community teams, including localizers, add-on developers, and testersget feedback from Web developers The focus of development so far has been on building a new user interface that reflects Firefox's design principles, and adds touch screen support and other features that are appropriate for mobile phones and other handheld devices. We plan to do further alpha releases which focus on performance, including projects like TraceMonkey, speculative parsing, and many Fennec and Gecko optimizations. To help out, visit the Mozilla mobile page to learn about our public weekly meetings, how to find our community on IRC, and more. Quick start This first alpha release is available for the OS2008 ("Maemo") software platforms that runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. Don't have an N810? What's in this version?
Employee Recognition Appreciation Award Ideas Sincere thanks never grow old. Ongoing, meaningful rewards and recognition provide an effective, low cost way of raising morale and encouraging higher levels of performance. Here are 86 ideas to help you embed employee recognition into your everyday work. (Adapted from the University of Michigan) Employee Recognition Ideas (no cost) Post a thank you note on an employee’s door. Employee Recognition Ideas (minor to moderate cost) Plan a surprise picnic. Employee Recognition Topics
A List Apart: Articles: Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your Website to the Small Screen Among the many websites that are out there, few are standards-compliant. Among those few, only a handful sport style sheets adjusted to the needs of handheld devices. Of those which do offer styling for handhelds, not all will fit the smallest, lowest-resolution screens without presenting the user with the ultimate handheld horror: namely, horizontal scrolling. The Opera browser runs on handheld devices of all screen sizes and resolutions, some of them only 120 pixels wide. The Constraints#section1 The main limitation of a handheld device is the small screen, which may also lack a mechanism for horizontal scrolling. Now, what do these limitations imply for the designer? Design one column layouts and avoid floats.Optimize your HTML by using efficient, semantic markup and CSS.Minimize the use of decorative images, avoid relying on images or plug-ins for navigation.Write good alternative text for images.Avoid dynamic effects that specifically require a mouse or keyboard for navigating. <!
Flow Charts - Problem Solving Techniques from MindTools How often have you thought about streamlining a process in your organization but not been sure where to start? Or perhaps you've struggled to understand a process when it's described to you in detail. Flow charts are a useful tool in these situations, as they make a process easy to understand at a glance. Using just a few words and some simple symbols, they show clearly what happens at each stage and how this affects other decisions and actions. In this article and video, we look at how to create and use flow charts, and explore how they can help you to solve problems in your processes. Click here to view a transcript of this video. What Is a Flow Chart? Flow charts are easy-to-understand diagrams that show how the steps of a process fit together. Flow charts tend to consist of four main symbols, linked with arrows that show the direction of flow: 1. 2. 3. 4. Tip: You can use many other symbols in a flow chart but remember that these diagrams are used for communication. Define a process.
UI Guidelines for mobile and tablet web app design | Mobile Web Programming Official user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) guidelines from the manufacturers, links to which you can find below, are a source of inspiration for mobile web and app design. Here, you will find guidelines, samples, tips, and descriptions of common mistakes. Many of the guidelines focus on native application development, but we can apply most parts of them to mobile web design too. Remember to provide the best possible experience on each platform. More tips on mobile web design on the Programming the Mobile Web book. Do you know any other UI Guideline? Tags: android, bada, design, ipad, iphone, nokia, sony ericsson, symbian, ui, windows
50 Online Tools That Will Help You Boost Productivity and Earn More Money One of the great things about the web is the number of useful tools that can aid you in keeping track of all that you have to do and manage. More importantly, many of these tools can be used to save time, increase productivity, and earn more money. Perhaps the only downfall is the sheer number of tools that are available. It can be overwhelming. Thankfully, I’ve done most of the work for you. Below you’ll find a list of the absolute best online tools. You don’t need to use all of them. So without further adieu, here’s the list… Table Of Contents You can jump to any section by clicking the links below or just scroll down to view all of the online tools. Project Management Tools 1. MindMeister allows your team to be more innovative by providing a shared collaboration and brainstorming environment using the proven mind mapping technique. 2. Freedcamp promises to be a free project management tool without restrictions on how many users or projects you can manage. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Productivity Tools