If you’re reading this post via email subscription it most likely looks different that posts used to look. That’s because I’ve switched subscription services from Google Feedburner to Feedblitz, due, in part to freaking out over last week’s frenzy of speculation that Feedburner is shutting down after a glitch showed all follower counts to be at […]
Archives for September 2012
No Images to Pin? No Problem!
(I wrote this for the Socialfish blog, but reposting here) While Pinterest is a natural fit for brands whose websites contain a lot of images–like retail, fashion, food, bridal, etc–associations for the most part probably don’t fit that bill. Most association websites are almost exclusively text, and many are none too pretty either…sorry, but, truth. […]
What Verizon Doesn’t Want You to Know About Their Internet Service
So you know from my last post about the troubles I’ve been having with Verizon internet for months. For months, I have dealt with the internet in my house dropping throughout each day. Inconvenient and not ok since I work from home part of the time. My husband and I have spent hours and hours […]
Why “Social Media Centers of Excellence” Are Not Excellent for Customers
I have Verizon internet (and TV, and phone) at home. For the past six months or more, we’ve been having issues with the internet dropping…but only intermittently. Every day, for part of the day, it works–but every day, for parts of the day, it doesn’t. Annoying, especially when you’re trying to work and your kids […]
Facebook Ignores User Settings AGAIN and Opts Everyone Back into Group Email Notifications
Have you spent all weekend wondering why your email inbox was full of notifications from Facebook groups? Notifications you swear you had previously turned off, but now seem to have been re-activated? Well, you’re not alone, and you’re not imagining things–Facebook did indeed just do one of their famous “we let you control your experience […]
CAE Bound
Every year for the past few years, I’ve watched other association friends and colleagues take the CAE exam. And each time I’ve thought “should I do it?” And answered myself “no”! No, because I swore to myself when I graduated from college about a billion years ago that I’d never have to go to school […]