I was practically screaming YES! when I read this WSJ article “Time for a War on ‘Mommy’” in which Taffy Brodesser-Akner poses a question I really want to know the answer to: “Why are we grown women calling each other Mommy?” Why are we? Why are we (mainstream media, PR agencies—and, of course, the bloggers […]
Archives for March 2011
Another Association Blogger Outreach Fail…Shocker
Examples like these are so misguided and ridiculous that they honestly make me embarassed to be part of the association world. In case you don’t want to click that link, the example to which I’m referring is a letter sent by the Director, Industry Communications for the National Potato Council. Except you would have no […]
AMC Theaters and Loyalty: A Study in What Not to Do
If you know me you know I’m an obsessive movie-goer. Each of the past three years I’ve kept track of the movies I’ve seen in the theater; in 2010 my tally was 57 movies. Almost all of those movies I saw with at least one other member of my family, and some all four of us […]
There’s a Big Difference Between Women “Ruling” and “Shopping”
(Update: I had originally titled this post “Note to Women: Shopping is Not Power” but once I saw it published I did a double-take and thought it made it seem like I was faulting women for the stuff I’m talking about in this post. So I changed it, because that was not my intention at […]
Importing Member Emails into Facebook–Just Because You Can, Should You?
I just read on Facebook that they have created two ways to allow admins of Pages with fewer than 5,000 “likers” to use email contacts to “build” their Pages. You can either upload a contact file into Facebook or import email contacts who are already on Facebook then suggest your Page to them. Facebook adds the following caveat […]
Silos and SEO and Spam
This post about blog comment spam and the consequences of keeping your social media people and marketing people in silos was so good I had to share it. It’s like the perfect storm of what not to do, why SEO stuff like blog comment spamming and social media don’t mix, and why it’s especially important […]
Shiny New Things
I’m not going to lie: being benched for a week due to surgery wasn’t too shabby. I wasn’t in too much pain, just woozy, so I was able to accomplish something I’ve been meaning to do for years: watch Dexter. The entire first season and half of the second, to be exact. Suffice it to […]
Social Media and Work/Life Balance, Redux
I had to have minor surgery last Friday and, subsequently, am trying my best to be “off the grid” this week while I recover. I’m off work for the week and have been sufficiently out of it that I actually have been (mostly) off the computer, including (again, mostly) Facebook and Twitter. And I have […]
Fix for Facebook Chronological Posts on Page Issue
Yes, I’m sufficiently nerdy that the way Facebook has messed up the way posts are displayed on a Page’s wall since the new Page design launched is driving me crazy. Luckily I’m not unique in this nerdiness; plenty of other Page admins are upset about it, too–so upset, in fact, that almost 11,000 have joined […]