A little over a year ago I was breathing fire over Facebook’s new rules for promotions. Ask them permission before running a contest? No more “leave a comment to be entered to win…” hi-jinx? The free ride was over. Looks like Facebook has re-thought the whole promotions thing, because I just read that they will […]
Archives for November 2010
Protecting Your Privacy on Facebook with safego
If you read this blog you know that, while I acknowledge Facebook can be a valuable business tool, I have have, at best, a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I love how easy Facebook makes it to see what’s going on in friend’s lives, but I hate their continual “whoops, we didn’t mean to…” attitude. As […]
Are Mobile Apps a Waste of Time for YOUR Association?
Photo by by Cyril Plapied Interesting debate going on in the association blogosphere recently–whether or not mobile apps are or are not a waste of time for associations. My take? You can’t know unless you ask your members. And yes I mean ask your members–not use data to guess their mobile usage needs based on […]
Calling BS on Klout and the Concept of Influencers
Can I just say that I will be very, very glad when the word “influencer” is struck from the vocabulary of every marketing, PR and social media person. Why? Because the whole concept of “influencer” based on stuff like Klout or stupid tools like Vitrue’s Social Page Evaluator is absolute BS. Anyone can have a […]
My 20 Truths
It’s been a while since I’ve jumped on the meme bandwagon…so in honor of it being the end of the week and me being officially tired of talking/writing/thinking about social media, I’m following in Amber Naslund’s footsteps and throwing down my 20 truths: You only live once. No, really. If you mess something up or […]
Open Community and the new association community manager
I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. In this post, Maddie and Lindy introduce the book and discuss a few of the ideas we hope to discuss more here […]
Vote for Mizz Information in the Mobbies?
So you know how I hate lists and the popularity contest that is social media. But I am admittedly intrigued at the possibility of actually being on a list for once…the Baltimore Sun‘s Mobbie awards for Maryland’s Outstanding Blogs. Want to help this C-Lister find out what it feels like to be on a list […]