Ironic that yesterday’s association chat (#assnchat; takes place every Tuesday at 2 pm thanks to Jeff De Cagna) was supposed to be about virtual attendee experience…but because the world felt compelled to live-tweet Michael Jackson’s funeral, Twitter was so slow that we had to postpone #assnchat. I know I’m not supposed to admit this, but […]
Does Forrester’s “Hub and Spoke” Model Work For Association Social Media?
Forrester Research recently released a report on how companies should organize for social media. In the report, they detail three basic organizational models: The Tire (Distributed): Where each business unit or group may create its own social media programs without a centralized approach. Forrester calls this approach the “tire,” as it originates at the edges […]
Twitter Isn’t a Numbers Game My A$$
Yesterday an exchange on Twitter got me thinking about the whole concept of “followers” and “following” and how crazy the whole thing is. I saw Chris Brogan tweet this: I asked: He replied: I have to say I’m surprised and weirdly offended. I’m so tired of hearing (ok, reading) all the talk in social media […]
3 Things I Hate About Twitter
I make no bones about the fact that I’m obsessed with social media. However, it doesn’t mean I love EVERYTHING about social media; actually, there are plenty of things I don’t like about it. For example, I don’t love Flickr because I’m not an images kind of gal; I can easily take a pass on […]
Why Is It Surprising When People Don’t Blog?
It always amuses me when people express surprise or shock that execs–or people in general–don’t blog. Blogging=writing. If you don’t like to write, or can’t write well, why would you have a blog? Most execs probably didn’t become execs because they love writing and write really well. They are business people. Not writers. Not to […]
Eff It Off Friday Links
It’s summer and it’s Friday so I’m having a hard time gathering my thoughts into a cohesive post; rather than wait for the words to start flowing I’ll let these links do the talking themselves: Awesome post by Josh Bernoff on the Groundswell Blog about Social technology: a way of life . . . or […]
Reverse Disclosure?
If you read this blog you know I’m big on transparency and disclosure–both because it’s important to me and also because it’s about to become very important to all bloggers when the FTC releases its revised guidelines later this summer. Last night on Twitter I noticed a conversation between Danny Brown and Chris Brogan about […]
Blog Potomac Happy Hour…Wasn’t So Happy
I was supposed to have gone to to Blog Potomac last week but, as I posted then, I didn’t want to go down in the bad mom hall of fame for choosing to go to a blogger conference over my son’s graduation from grade school. I did, however, go to the happy hour the night […]
Why Are There Ads On My Blog After I Dissed People Who Blog For Profit?
No, you’re not imagining things–there is a great big ad on my blog now. And yes, you’re right, I’m officially a sell out after equating blogging for money to charging your husband for sex. So why’d I do it? I’ll tell you why: curiosity. Seriously, that’s it. I have no illusions I’ll be making more […]
Buzz2009 Social Media For Associations–Why I Wish I Was Going
Right now I should be battling traffic on my way to BlogPotomac but, because I don’t want to go down in the bad mom hall of fame as being the mom who chose a blogger conference over her son’s grade-school graduation, I’m not going. I did slog through traffic hell to go to the happy […]