Welcome to the first-ever guest post on Mizz Information! As a small-staff association marketing and communications professional, there is so much I need to learn, so and I figured as I look to experts to find answers to questions I have, why not share their expertise with Mizz Information readers? Email marketing is one of […]
Book Review: Disrupted by Dan Lyons. Spoiler: Read it.
Ever since I started reading buzz about Dan Lyons’ book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble, I couldn’t wait to read it. I mean, what’s not to like? Scandal. FBI involvement. People somehow overlooking the drama and pretending nothing was weird at a huge event, even in the immediate wake of all the press […]
Spring Fever and Changing it up on Mizz Information
Even I can hardly complain about this past winter because, aside from the 25″ of snow that one time, it wasn’t too bad, even by a winter-hater’s standards. Regardless, I’m glad it’s over and the world is filled with cherry blossoms and other signs of spring. This year has brought a lot of changes for […]
LinkedIn Shuts Moderator Group–Is the Same Coming for Groups?
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about LinkedIn Groups (or posted at all, really…) but leave it to the universe to cause me to have to break my dry spell on a holiday weekend Friday. So remember about six months ago when I wrote about why associations should be planning their LinkedIn group exit […]
My 2016 Oscar Predictions
It’s the best day of the year if you’re a movie fanatic– the Oscars! It’s gorgeous out and I should be outside instead of inside writing this, so I won’t beat around the bush–here are my predictions for tonight’s winners. I will say these few things first, though: I didn’t see all the nominated movies–I never […]
Why Skipping LinkedIn is a Mistake for Association CEOs
So my husband subscribes to CEO Update, the most expensive old-school publication ever, which I find entertaining specifically for its old-schoolness. It arrives in all its black and white, mimeographed-looking glory each month, full of association news and association executive job postings. This month’s issue, though, was a bit of a head-scratcher for me, though, […]
Term Limits are Good for Association Volunteers. Why not for Staff?
So, my diatribe about Medium and how bloggers shouldn’t fall into the trap of believing that individual blogs are worthless and we should, instead of writing on sites we control, write–for free– for sites that make other people millions apparently piqued my curiosity about what writing on Medium was actually like. So I wrote a […]
To Blog or Not to Blog in the Age of Medium
More and more, blogging feels like speaking into an unplugged mic. Which is why I and countless others who used to love it and do it religiously have either stopped altogether or seem to be winding down. Back in the day, blogging was about words. You wrote from the heart–or from wherever–clicked “publish” and that was […]
2015 Movie Recap
(Originally posted on Chic n’ Geek) Guess what time it is? Movie recap time! Have I really been at this for eight years now? Apparently yes. To the tune of a running total of 438 movies seen in the theater, even though my annual total this year was a measly 45. I don’t even want […]
Will You Be at #Tech15 Next Week?
It’s that time of year again…no, not the holidays, but time for the ASAE Technology Conference & Expo. I’m excited to to heading there to see all my association friends, and of course, to be part of two awesome panels: Disruptive Innovations in Education Technology alters how we engage with what we are learning, how we […]