About

Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant have been collaborating on the intersection of social media and leadership. Maddie is a well-known blogger and partner in a successful social media consulting firm and Jamie has been consulting to organizations on issues of leadership, conflict, and strategy for ten years. In 2009 they started to work together on the idea of the “social organization,” acknowledging that social media wasn’t just changing marketing and communications. It was challenging some of the tried and true principles of organizational leadership, structure, process, and behavior.

In 2011 their collaboration came together in this book.

Jamie Notter started his career in the field of international conflict resolution. He spent six years designing and delivering training programs in areas of ethnic conflict (if you get a chance, ask him about the awesome people on the island of Cyprus). Jamie then moved into working with organizations, initially as a diversity trainer and consultant, and later commanding his private management consulting practice, working extensively with trade associations and professional societies. In 2008 Jamie merged his company with MSP (an association management company) to create the consulting division. Jamie carries a master’s degree in conflict resolution from George Mason University, and a Certificate in Organization Development from Georgetown. An avid writer, he has authored dozens of published articles to go along with a 2007 e-book Generational Diversity in the Workplace and in 2006 published We Have Always Done It That Way: 101 Things About Associations We Must Change. Jamie is a Vice President at Management Solutions Plus, where he leads the consulting division.

Maddie Grant, CAE is the co-author of Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. Maddie is also the lead editor of one of the most visited and respected blogs written for association executives, SocialFishing where she gets to express her viewpoint as a classic Gen-X early adopter and “shiny new toy” addict. As the chief social media strategist for SocialFish, Maddie draws from more than 10 years of experience in marketing, communications, and international business operations to help organizations large and small build capacity for using social media to achieve business results. Maddie is also the lead editor for SocialFishing, one of the most visited and respected blogs for the association/nonprofit industry.

Maddie and Jamie were both fans of the Matrix movies long before they started work on this book.