Just as regularly as I get depressed in winter, I am finding myself feeling burnt-out on all things social media for the second summer in a row. Last June I blogged about how I just wasn’t feeling like blogging, tweeting, “engaging”–the whole social media shebang–and wondered if it had anything to do with the nice […]
Archives for May 2010
What Your Facebook Page is Worth…To Vitrue
Social media people love them some grading tools–you know, the kind that show you what your Twinfluence or Twitter grade are, or how popular your blog is, or even how good your Foursquare “mojo” is. So naturally they’re all going crazy for Vitrue’s “Social Page Evaluator” which allegedly reveals how much a Facebook page is […]
Contests & Giveaways–Good Idea or Legal Problem?
Everybody likes to win stuff, right? Brands must think so because a cornerstone of social media marketing seems to be the contest: blog giveaways and Facebook contests, in particular. Especially in mom blogging, giveaways seem to be a great idea: brands get the magical juju that being mentioned by a bonifide mom blogger brings–for free–and […]
Should You Quit Your Job if the Boss Doesn’t “Get” Social Media
The title of this post caught my eye: Is C-suite rejection of social media reason for you to quit? I actually did quit my job pretty much for this exact reason. If you know me or follow this blog you’ll recall I left my job last fall, due in large part to the frustration of […]
How Far is Too Far to Bend Over for Social Media?
Maybe I just have a hard heart but the following exchange just makes me tired. Long story short: a blogger wrote about how his 8 year-old son who LOVES drawing airplanes sent a drawing and a letter to Boeing, asking them if they’d like to build his plane for real. The kid received a form […]
Association Social Media Staffing
It’s Friday night and I REALLY should be doing something other than blogging…but I happened to leaf through the Association Buyers’ Guide (can’t link to it b/c it’s not online yet–if it’s posted I’ll come back and update with link) to an article called “WatsNxt4Tech?” According to the article “Today’s top trend in association technology? […]
How to Embed a Tweet in a Blog Post
I saw this on Kami Huyse’s blog, Communication Overtones, and had to give it a try. Here are her instructions for embedding a tweet in your blog: Step-by-Step Instructions for Inserting an Embeddable Tweet: Choose the Tweet you want to use on the Web by clicking on its timestamp Copy the unique URL for the […]
Social Media Staffing, Malaise and Drama
I’m having writer’s block this week for some reason, but am also having blogging withdrawals. So I need to post something. In no particular order here are some things I would blog about but can’t get past a few half-baked sentences so will just stick with links/random comments: Yesterday I was reading NTEN’s 2010 Nonprofit […]