(Originally posted on Chic n’ Geek) *UPDATED because I’m old and forgot three movies! Thank you, Patrick, for reminding me of three movies I forgot!* Well, it’s that time again: time for my annual movie recap. Hard to believe this is my seventh year doing this–over these seven years, I’ve seen 393 movies. In the […]
Digital Cleanup Plan for a Fresh New Year
Here we are again at the end of another year. While this year has been a great one in some ways, overall I can’t say I’m sad to say goodbye to 2014. Suffice it to say that it will go down in my personal history as the year I learned some sad truths about people […]
Associations With Engaged Communities Have Higher Retention Rates
If you read this blog, you know I’m obsessed with two things: associations and community management. I’ve been happy to see a slight uptick in associations hiring community managers this year–although salaries seem to be significantly lower than the average salaries reported in the Community Roundtable’s recent salary survey (the average salary for community manager is almost $70k; […]
Why Community Manager Should Be Your Association’s Next Hire
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about my favorite topic, association community management, right? I’m not currently working in the association world, but I still strongly believe in the importance of associations and can’t help but think “how does this apply to associations” when I read pretty much anything. This was especially true when […]
Really, Internet? Is This What Social Media Has Become?
Maybe it’s just because the leaves are falling off the trees and it now gets dark at 5:30 pm and I’m depressed that winter’s almost here. Maybe it’s run-of-the-mill social media fatigue. Maybe it’s because I finally dropped my iPhone one too many times yesterday and the screen finally shattered. All I know is that […]