Ok, well, truth be told, the real reason is that the decision was made for me when my husband–henceforth to be known as BEST HUSBAND IN THE UNIVERSE–arrived home last week with a big box for me. Inside? A shiny new MacBook. We’d been hemming and hawing about this purchase for a long, long time. […]
All That is Wrong With Social Media: House Party
I guess it goes without saying that by writing this post I’m probably killing my chances of being given the privilege of ever hosting a House Party. But I just can’t hold my tongue so here goes. Last week a friend posted a link to a video on Facebook, asking whether we all thought it […]
How Will SideWiki Affect Your Association?
Still thinking social media is just a fad you’re going to ride out? Still thinking you don’t have the staff resources to bother with monitoring what’s being said about your organization–let alone attempt to facilitate that conversation on your own turf? Guess you better think again now that Google SideWiki is in the picture. At […]
Is Your Association “Too Bureaucratic and Less Relevant in the Internet Age”?
A few days ago there was a front page article in the Washington Post about Fairfax County schools dropping out of the PTA. I happened to skim it and realized that it was really relevant to associations on the whole. The article is focused on the PTA, obviously, but the story really reads as a […]
Best Buy Asks The Wrong Question On Facebook
Best Buy recently posted a benign enough question on its Facebook page: “What do you think about offering Bestbuy.com in Spanish?” Apparently it set off a firestorm of negative and even racist comments. Some of the commenters on the post I linked to above wonder why Best Buy would be asking that question in the […]