*Disclaimer: I work for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA); however, this is my personal blog in which I express my own thoughts and opinions.* A few weeks ago I blogged about my experience of being among 12,500 members at my association’s annual convention, and their reactions to our budding social media activities. I work in […]
Why Every Stay-Home Mom Needs to Be On Facebook
A few weeks ago I went to a bingo night at school, arranged by the PTA. PTA isn’t really my thing, but any form of gambling is, so I went. After bingo (I didn’t win once in 21 games—go figure why I love gambling) I went out for drinks with a group of moms. When […]
Social Media, Circa 1997
Canadian blogger SuzeMuse had a great post today about social media not being new at all. As a social media veteran of over 11 years, I can assure you she’s right. Her post inspired me to take a trip back to web 2.0, circa 1997. Back then, I was a stay-home mom, desperate for social […]
Wordle
Just stumbled on the coolest thing EVER: Wordle. Wordle is “a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide.” It gives you a graphical representation of whatever text you provide: you can enter text or specify the url for a blog or particular post. It’s like the interpretive dance version of your blog! […]
Association Social Media Roadshow Reflections Part 1: Twitter
*Disclaimer: I work for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA); however, this is my personal blog in which I express my own thoughts and opinions.* *When I sat down to write this post I intended it to be a wrap up of all my thoughts about our social media explorations at ASHA’s Annual Convention. Once I […]
Social Media Perfect Storm: A Cautionary Tale
Ok, I’ve kept my mouth shut long enough–I was not going to blog about this because it would probably mean I’d never see my free cloud computer, but at this rate it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen anyway. I’m sacrificing my potential blogging mother lode–free computer in exchange for promoting it via social […]
We Built it. They Came. Now What?
Facebook for business–you’re kidding, right? Everyone knows Facebook is for teenagers sharing drunken or suggestive photos of themselves–what possible use could it possibly have with regard to business? The answer: plenty. But I work for a non-profit–do these “business solutions” still apply? Definitely. Not sure if Facebook is a good fit for your business or […]
The Samsung Instinct Must Really Suck
About a month ago I blogged about my horrible experience with Sprint’s Samsung Instinct phone. At about that same time, my blog got accepted for inclusion on Alltop, an “online magazine rack” in the form of an RSS aggregator classified by topic (mine is in the social media category). Awesome–I thought–finally I might actually get […]
This Just In: More Old People Are Using Social Media
Forrester Research has updated their data on Social Technographics and–shocker–the upshot is that social technology participation has grown significantly in the last year. “Inactives”–people who don’t participate at all in social networking or technologies–now make up only 25% of the online population in the US. “Spectators”–people who read blogs, watch videos, rate products or listen […]
Social Media Manager: What’s It Worth To Your Association?
Lately there’s been a big buzz about a newly-created Manager, Social Media position at the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Judging by the number of people blogging, tweeting or otherwise talking about it, I can only imagine how many resumes are flying into NAR. Anyone who knows me knows I’m nosy, particularly about people’s salaries. […]