*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 […]