I just read a post about an upcoming membership marketing benchmarking report, specifically detailing the part of the report that addresses social media use by associations. The report surveyed 700 associations and, according to the summary of the upcoming report, among associations with over 20,000 members, 31% reported having a private social network. Hm, I […]
Archives for April 2012
Why Facebook Timeline Will Continue to be Bad For Brands
What–Facebook Timeline hasn’t performed as well for brands as Facebook led them to believe it would? Say it isn’t so! I am not at all surprised–here’s why: Timeline is a UI nightmare. Where the hell are you supposed to look? With so much emphasis on images, pages take forever to load. There are two columns–except […]
What Does a Washington Post Blogger Resigning Say About the State of Digital Publishing?
While reading Sunday’s Washington Post, I came across the headline “The Post fails a young blogger.” This should be interesting, I thought, and read it. It was not only interesting but scarily familiar to me. The article describes how the Post blogger responsible for blogPost just resigned because of the no-win nature of her job. Her […]
Karl Rove at ASAE? I Wish I Cared More
A few weeks ago, a storm started brewing over the announced opening keynote speakers for ASAE’s annual conference: Karl Rove and James Carville. As I’m avidly anti-politics (I don’t even vote), I immediately got fired up upon hearing the name “Karl Rove” because I know enough about politics to know he bashed my hero Elizabeth […]
Ashley Judd & Misogyny–I Call BS
Warning: rant that has nothing to do with social media ahead. If you’re on Facebook (and who isn’t?–my hat’s off to you if you’re not) you’ve probably seen about a billion women posting “you go girl!” type of comments about this piece written by Ashely Judd in which she “slaps the media in the face” […]