Maybe I just have a hard heart but the following exchange just makes me tired. Long story short: a blogger wrote about how his 8 year-old son who LOVES drawing airplanes sent a drawing and a letter to Boeing, asking them if they’d like to build his plane for real. The kid received a form […]
Association Social Media Staffing
It’s Friday night and I REALLY should be doing something other than blogging…but I happened to leaf through the Association Buyers’ Guide (can’t link to it b/c it’s not online yet–if it’s posted I’ll come back and update with link) to an article called “WatsNxt4Tech?” According to the article “Today’s top trend in association technology? […]
How to Embed a Tweet in a Blog Post
I saw this on Kami Huyse’s blog, Communication Overtones, and had to give it a try. Here are her instructions for embedding a tweet in your blog: Step-by-Step Instructions for Inserting an Embeddable Tweet: Choose the Tweet you want to use on the Web by clicking on its timestamp Copy the unique URL for the […]
Social Media Staffing, Malaise and Drama
I’m having writer’s block this week for some reason, but am also having blogging withdrawals. So I need to post something. In no particular order here are some things I would blog about but can’t get past a few half-baked sentences so will just stick with links/random comments: Yesterday I was reading NTEN’s 2010 Nonprofit […]
Banning Social Media for Teens? NOT a Good Idea.
In the stupidest idea of the week category we have the New Jersey principal who wants parents to join together and ban their kids from using social networking sites. He asserts that there is “absolutely, positively no reason for any middle school student to be a part of a social networking site! None.” Please. How […]
Yet Another Level of Facebook Sucking: Community Pages
As if there weren’t already enough things to dislike about Facebook: the way Pages can’t be unlinked from creators, the way it is making billions off your personal information…I’m not even going to continue because it could take all day. You get the point. At any rate, back to “as if there weren’t already enough […]
Your Life…As Depicted By Foursquare
I saw this tweet today by @eric_andersen: “Great point! “Foursquare can paint a very vivid picture of your life”–and had to laugh because I can’t help but think this exact thing every time I use Foursquare. As in, my life, as depicted through my Foursquare activity, is exceedingly lame. Seriously–I mean, by the looks of […]
The View from 20,000 Fans (I Refuse to Say Likers)
For those of you who don’t already know it, I’m the online community & social media manager for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). I don’t usually write about stuff specific to ASHA but reaching 20,000 fans (like I said in the title, I cannot bring myself to say “likers”) on Facebook feels blog-worthy, so I […]
How to Add Facebook’s New “Like” Button to Blogger
I’ll preface this by saying that this is the bootleg way to add the button; I’m sure there’s a better way to do it so people can like individual posts rather than the whole blog. But until Blogger or someone else posts those instructions you might want to try the new “like” button feature on […]
Three Things About Social Media That Just Don’t Make Sense…And Piss Me Off
Without any fanfare, here are three things about social media that are perplexing me today: Posterous comes to Ning’s rescue. Except, um, last time I checked Posterous was a lazy-person’s blog platform and Ning was a fully-functioning social network. It’s like saying that Disney World is closing but have no fear–a movie theater chain is […]