Photo by somegeekintn on Flickr The fact that depending on free services to house your organization’s online community is a risky business is something I’ve blogged about before. Like when Facebook just decided to remove the Discussions feature from pages, so if discussions happened to be a valuable asset to either your org or your members, you […]
Archives for August 2012
Buh-Bye Daily Deals
Photo by Shlomi Fish on Flickr Last week when TechCrunch tied what sounds like Plum District’s eminent demise to “changes in the hyperlocal deals market,” I wondered if the issue was actually about daily deals in general rather than hyperlocal deals. But now Groupon’s second quarter earnings are in and they are, as Slate says, “dismal”, and […]
ASAE12 Wrap-Up–My 5 Takeaways
So many thoughts about the ASAE Annual meeting I just recovered returned from, so little time to distill them into a coherent blog post while catching up on regular life. So rather than sit here and agonize over coming up with pithy commentary, I figured I’d just go with the tried-and-true list format: Mobile apps […]
Threat to Associations? The $10,000 a Year Online Community
Yesterday I saw a job on Twitter: “Membership sales for Social Media.org.” As an association veteran, I’m used to membership director or manager positions–but have never seen a membership position billed as a sales position. So I went to check out Social Media.org, and discovered it is a “community for social media leaders at the […]
Are Conference Apps Ready for Prime Time?
As I get ready to ship out to Dallas for ASAE’s Annual Meeting at the end of this week, I’ve realized it’s probably about time to plan out my schedule for what I’ll be doing once I’m there. The paper meeting program ASAE sent me a few months ago? Long gone–I am not one for […]
