As far as I’m concerned, there are four–not two–absolutes in life: death, taxes, looks matter and age matters. Ok, so maybe looks are not exactly on par with death, but it’s a scientific fact that the better looking you are, the more successful you’ll be in life. I will spare you (and me) the drudgery […]
Social Media Foot-Draggers: It’s Time to Get Over It
Social media holdouts are triumphantly circulating Nielsen Online’s recent report that more than 60% of new Twitter users stop using the service within a month. I can just see them waiting to stick the fork in Twitter and all the other social media tools with a final “I told you so,” putting the whole issue […]
The Power of..Huh?
Recently I received an email from ASAE’s president and CEO about a new campaign, The Power of A. It said something about how they were getting ready to roll out this new campaign to highlight “the many ways in which national trade and professional groups assist U.S. employers, legislators, workers and the public at large […]
Looks Matter, Even in the Blogosphere
I read an interesting post a few weeks ago but have been too busy to blog much since then; it was about how female tech bloggers are perceived differently than males. Namely, if a woman is attractive it becomes difficult to find comments that reflect on what she’s trying to say rather than how she […]
Blogging For A Living…Or Not
For whatever reason, I’ve come across a lot of posts lately about blogging for money–either for it or against it. I already expressed my thoughts about it; namely that for me, personally, blogging is about my passion for writing. Well, that and being able to share my strong opinions about things that I find fascinating […]
You Can’t Sell Your Twitter Account. Unless CNN is Buying.
Call me stupid but if a person starts a Twitter account called “CNN Breaking News” and populates it with CNN headlines, doesn’t that count as “using feeds of third-party content to update and maintain accounts under the names of those third parties”? And, if it does, how is the whole thing with CNN’s million-follower contest […]
If Twitter Wasn’t Mainstream Before, It Will Be After 4pm Today
I started writing a post yesterday about Ashton Kutcher and CNN’s contest to get to a million followers but didn’t get to finish. My point was going to be how I know it’s pathetic to get worked up over something as stupid as the commercialization of Twitter–but that it did offend my nerd sensibilities. As […]
Tweeting for Profit
While I likened the idea of blogging for profit to making your husband pay you for sex, I might be ok with tweeting for profit.
Blogging For Profit?
This morning I was flipping through Website Magazine, intrigued by the cover story “Blog: Carving Out A Plan For Profit” (page 26). I get to the story and the first sentence stopped me in my tracks: “Web professionals should be using blogs for one purpose–to make money.” Excuse me? The article goes on to instruct […]
Social Media Salaries
About 6 months ago I posed the question “Social Media Manager: What’s It Worth To Your Association?” At that point, I wasn’t able to find any data about social media salaries at associations; at this point, I still am not really able to. More on that in a minute, though. In addition to what I […]