Even though I’m 43 years old I can’t resist announcing–it’s my birthday today. What am I doing to celebrate? Well, today, working, but tomorrow I’m taking my first trip to England. Yes, it took me 42 years on this planet to get a passport, but I finally got one and I’m going to visit a […]
Did You Know Online Community is a Priority for ASAE? Neither Did I
I’ve spent the past day and a half at ASAE’s Future Leaders conference. On one hand, it’s been great–I’ve learned some leadership stuff (I’m an “i”–who knew?), met some cool people, and gotten to hang out with my friend Lauren Wolfe. On the other, it’s made me wonder how, when almost 10% of kids today […]
Open Community and the new association community manager
I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. In this post, Maddie and Lindy introduce the book and discuss a few of the ideas we hope to discuss more here […]
Think Your Lurkers Aren’t Engaged? Think Again
This week’s #assnchat (which, sadly, I missed) was about lurkers–are they valuable, how do you engage them, do you track them, etc. Even though I missed it, I apparently have lurkers on the brain, because when I read this post from Suzemuse, lurkers were the first thing I thought of. Watch this video, from Suze’s […]
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 […]