[This post is one of several in a series of "Recruitment Spotlight" articles highlighting successful organizational growth] by Josh Orendi If your reaction to that title was “really!??” or “how is that possible” or “Alpha Sigma who?” you’re not alone. It’s hard to believe that a fraternity founded in 1845 could fly under the interfraternal Read More
by Matt Mattson If you’re one of the approximately 500,000,000 (!) Twitter users in the world, or you watch TV and have noticed the little pound-sign-thingy in the bottom corner of some of your favorite shows, you know what “hashtags” are. Phired Up is driving a worldwide online conversation about Dynamic Recruitment and Social Excellence Read More
by Matt Mattson When we teach recruitment, our message boils down to two powerful ideas: PEOPLE + PURPOSE. I’ll explain more in a minute, but first a story… About 10 days ago I was preparing to go to Kennesaw State University to deliver a Phired Up Dynamic Recruitment Workshop. I was excited to present as Read More
By Matt Mattson Wondering what this whole BE THE PERSON | 2012 event is all about? We’ve called it an “anti-conference,” we’ve said it is about leadership, organizational success, creating a movement within the college community, Social Excellence, and becoming an Every|Day Hero. That sounds cool, but you’re probably having a hard time picturing what Read More
by Matt Mattson Today several members of our Phired Up staff will head to St. Louis for a huge conference hosted by the Association of Fraternal Leadership and Values. While there, we’ll connect with a lot of new friends, but I wanted to take a moment to celebrate some old friends we’ll see there who Read More
by Matt Mattson Look up. Yes, you. Just do me a favor and look up from your phone, your computer, or your tablet for a moment. Look at the people around you. Look at the bustling world of real human beings surrounding you (if you’re alone right now, just pause for a moment next time Read More
by Matt Mattson We often get asked, “Does Phired Up Productions do anything for culturally-based fraternities & sororities (like NPHC, NALFO, NMGC, NAPA, etc.)?” The answer is, and always has been, a resounding YES. And we do it well, but there is more work to be done. I’m proud of the work we did a Read More
Our whole Phired Up team is traveling to an important conference for college fraternity/sorority advisors this week. We’re very excited to go to the educational sessions, listen to the keynote speakers, and enjoy the festivities. But we know that if we want to deeply connect to the best people who can help us change the Read More
[In honor of this year's recipient (and to bring the donation up to a nice round number), we're proud to offer a one-time opportunity. The first college campus to send an e-mail to Matt@PhiredUp.com requesting a women's-specific program for its students (consider a Social Excellence program to empower women's leaders, or a Dynamic Recruitment for Read More
by Matt Mattson We have been known to poke fun at the “big recruitment event” mentality that many organizations have (see here, here, here, and here for just a handful of the examples). We even called the phenomenon of recruiting through big events “eventitis” in our books. But then we throw a big event every Read More