The Sales Association has unveiled SalesProCentral generously sponsored by Leads360.  The Sales Association is the premier professional society dedicated to sales and business development professionals.   They are happy to launch SalesProCentral as an industry resource for their members and for non-members alike.  Because of the generosity of Leads360, they have been able to provide the site free of charge. SalesProCentral is the go to site and newsletter for sales and sales management professionals who want the latest and highest quality content aimed at helping improve sales performance. MORE >>

The new white paper – B2B Blogging Trends in 2011 has been released. Certainly one of the big trends is curation.  Several of the contributors pointed out that a big challenge in 2011 is rising above the noise.  At the same time one of the primary challenges for blogging is the effort involved in creating quality content in an on-going basis. Clearly one of the ways to address this is discussed in Marketing via Aggregation, Filtering and Curation. B2B Bloggers can rely on curation, aggregation and filtering as a technique to produce quality content in an on-going basis.  Curation MORE >>

An interesting report published by LinkedIn that calculated the growth rates in industry size between 2007 and 2011. Here’s what they found: Look at what’s at the bottom: Newspapers. Look at what’s at the top: Internet. Online Publishing. What’s fascinating about this is that most Newspapers and traditional publications are having such a hard time moving their business to online models. It’s a classic innovator’s dilemma. Their successful, larger business makes it hard to innovate to smaller, new businesses. Curation MORE >>

Great post on social filtering Eric Sauve - Why Social Filters are a Must for Communities : Social filtering is essential in a community system as when you have more than 30 pieces of content or 30 people it becomes impossible to identify the most relevant content and people. great point about the need for social filtering from: Introducing the Filters -. an abundance of content is only a problem if there are no good filters for finding what we are interested in. Obviously, social filtering is a central element of the value of Browse My Stuff.  Or even Top 100 eLearning Items. MORE >>

Young Association Professionals , Aggregage , Association Universe and Infinite Conferencing are are excited to bring an amazing series of interactive webinars on how association professionals need to think and act differently to drive member engagement.  The world has changed and we’ve brought together thought leaders from a wide variety of perspectives to help with this new world.  The series runs each week from the end of October through end of January. What Does Member Engagement Mean to You? Eric Lanke, CEO, National Fluid Power Association. About Eric Lanke, CAE. About Tom Morrison. MORE >>