I make no bones about the fact that I’m obsessed with social media. However, it doesn’t mean I love EVERYTHING about social media; actually, there are plenty of things I don’t like about it. For example, I don’t love Flickr because I’m not an images kind of gal; I can easily take a pass on […]
Archives for June 2009
Why Is It Surprising When People Don’t Blog?
It always amuses me when people express surprise or shock that execs–or people in general–don’t blog. Blogging=writing. If you don’t like to write, or can’t write well, why would you have a blog? Most execs probably didn’t become execs because they love writing and write really well. They are business people. Not writers. Not to […]
Eff It Off Friday Links
It’s summer and it’s Friday so I’m having a hard time gathering my thoughts into a cohesive post; rather than wait for the words to start flowing I’ll let these links do the talking themselves: Awesome post by Josh Bernoff on the Groundswell Blog about Social technology: a way of life . . . or […]
Reverse Disclosure?
If you read this blog you know I’m big on transparency and disclosure–both because it’s important to me and also because it’s about to become very important to all bloggers when the FTC releases its revised guidelines later this summer. Last night on Twitter I noticed a conversation between Danny Brown and Chris Brogan about […]
Blog Potomac Happy Hour…Wasn’t So Happy
I was supposed to have gone to to Blog Potomac last week but, as I posted then, I didn’t want to go down in the bad mom hall of fame for choosing to go to a blogger conference over my son’s graduation from grade school. I did, however, go to the happy hour the night […]
Why Are There Ads On My Blog After I Dissed People Who Blog For Profit?
No, you’re not imagining things–there is a great big ad on my blog now. And yes, you’re right, I’m officially a sell out after equating blogging for money to charging your husband for sex. So why’d I do it? I’ll tell you why: curiosity. Seriously, that’s it. I have no illusions I’ll be making more […]
Buzz2009 Social Media For Associations–Why I Wish I Was Going
Right now I should be battling traffic on my way to BlogPotomac but, because I don’t want to go down in the bad mom hall of fame as being the mom who chose a blogger conference over her son’s grade-school graduation, I’m not going. I did slog through traffic hell to go to the happy […]
Claim Your Company’s Name on Facebook–But Only if You Have 1,000 Fans
The day has finally come: as of this Saturday morning at 12:01 am, you can claim a vanity url for your business on Facebook. That means instead of having to hand out coupons that look like this: you’ll be able to, instead, just use “www.facebook.com/Nest”(I’m just using this one as an example because it happens […]
More Power of “Huh?”
I still hadn’t stopped scratching my head over the whole Power of A thing when the latest issue of ASAE’s inTouch newsletter arrived in my inbox just now. Headline: “ASAE Offers New Health Care Resource”–sounds good, right? I click on it and get this: ASAE now has a new health care and association policy resource […]
Is Summer the Season for Social Media Malaise?
Recently I just haven’t been feeling it as much–blogging, tweeting–just the whole social media thing. Life is too busy and sometimes I question why I put all this other stuff on myself when I already have a more-than-full plate with kids, a husband, a full-time job, etc. I blogged about it last week with regard […]