A few days ago there was a front page article in the Washington Post about Fairfax County schools dropping out of the PTA. I happened to skim it and realized that it was really relevant to associations on the whole. The article is focused on the PTA, obviously, but the story really reads as a […]
Archives for September 2009
Best Buy Asks The Wrong Question On Facebook
Best Buy recently posted a benign enough question on its Facebook page: “What do you think about offering Bestbuy.com in Spanish?” Apparently it set off a firestorm of negative and even racist comments. Some of the commenters on the post I linked to above wonder why Best Buy would be asking that question in the […]
Have I Sold Out?
Yesterday Maddie Grant tagged me in a timely meme: The Gen X-er Meme–Have we sold out? Timely because I had just received a total spanking from the awesomely snarky blog, Ask And Ye Shall Receive. Actually, spanking is too kind a word; double penetration with a large blunt object is a more accurate description. But […]
Stranded Evangelists Shouldn’t Stay Stranded
I am breathing a sigh of relief today because Harvard Business has a name for what I am–“Stranded Evangelist.” Sounds so much nicer than “Bitter,” which is how I sometimes feel. Jamie Notter blogged about this post and added his own tip to the 5 offered in the Harvard blog. I also propose adding another, […]
Are You Hurting Your Career Prospects By Ignoring Social Media?
Penelope Trunk recently did an online discussion on Washingtonpost.com about online social networking. True, I am obsessed with her so I am biased, but I thought this piece of advice was particularly relevant and important: Washington, D.C.: I am an ex-government employee, and very concerned about protecting my privacy. Should I be weary of joining […]
Seth Godin Is Totally Right About Nonprofits and Social Media
Ok, well maybe not totally right, but certainly not as wrong as the droves of bloggers who are taking issue with his post are expressing. Seth says: “Non-profits, in my experience, abhor change.” I’ve worked in and/or with associations for almost 20 years now and it’s been my experience that they do abhor change. Isn’t […]
How Much Do YOU Make As A Social Media Professional?
I seem to be getting an increasing amount of traffic through people searching for information about social media salaries. Not at all surprising because there is precious little information out there about social media salaries. As I’ve blogged before, social media jobs in general are an enigma…titles are all over the place, from VP Digital […]
Does A Social Media Job = Career Suicide?
Geez, talk about a downer of a blog post: according to Jim Durbin of Social Media Headhunter, I am in a total dead-end job. As a social media specialist, I am what he calls a “social media doer” and “A social media doer is not a position with career advancement.” He makes some very valid […]
Wait, Who’s the Idiot?
Is it just me or is this rant by a stodgy old-guard communicator absolutely scary, crazy and hilarious–all at the same time? Or is it just crazy and/or scary? In case you don’t feel like clicking over to that post, I’ll sum it up for you: a “a 20-year communications professional” is raging on “idiotic” […]
