A few months ago, I blogged about Facebook’s impending decision to make life hard for pharmaceutical companies. According to today’s Washington Post , these changes will be going live tomorrow, forcing most pharma pages that have previously had closed walls to open them to allow comments. What isn’t clear in the article is whether this […]
Why the Nerd in me Knows Ads Will Ruin Twitter
After a week-long vacation and self-imposed break from all things online, I admit this time my return to Twitter was a bit more reluctant than it has been after previous, shorter breaks. In years past, the idea of not checking Twitter for any length of time seemed much harder for some reason. I’m not sure […]
Why I’m not Giddy Over Google+
If you’re a geek, you already know what Google+ is. If you’re not, this seems like a decent primer (I admit I just Googled it and picked the first link, so apologies if that’s actually a flawed or otherwise not great explanation. After all, it’s July 4th.) Basically, it’s supposed to be Google’s version of […]
Social Media Software + Silos Redux
This is a post I wrote for SocialFishing, but I thought I’d share it here as well. This is an issue I’m kind of obsessed with, in case you can’t tell from the post. ; ) The big thing these days is social media software–everyone wants to get into the game. Whether it’s social media […]
Why the Foursquare/AmEx Deal is the Least Likely Thing to Prove Social Media’s ROI
Photo by Cometstarmoon I always wonder, when I read articles like these, whether the author actually uses Foursquare him/herself. Because, as someone who does use Foursquare–against my better judgement–I’m here to tell you that the idea of it being the thing that is going to prove anything other than that location based services, in their […]
Facebook Blocks Page Admins from Posting Legit Links
I’ve blogged before about why Facebook will never replace your website, but in case you’re still thinking I’m full of it and using Facebook as your corporate website is a good idea, allow me to share yet another reason giving a third party control over what/how you post online is a bad idea. This afternoon […]
Community Manager Confusion, Influence, and More
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 […]
Influence in the Context of Associations
“Influence” is a concept I know I’m reading, hearing and thinking about and I know I’m not the only one. I think it’s interesting to sit where I sit–an online community & social media manager for an association–knowing my concept of “influencers” is a lot different than that of the people higher up in my […]
Facebook PR Flap: Thank You Forbes & Jeremy Pepper for Proving I’m Not Crazy
When the whole thing with Facebook and Burston-Marsteller went down, I confess I was a bit confused. As a social media/communications professional I have worked “in and around” PR but not at an agency and I make no claims whatsoever of being a PR pro. I could have sworn, though, from my capacity as both […]
Social Media Manager Fatigue
Everyone knows being a social media manager is the funnest job in the world, right? I mean, what’s NOT to like about being paid to be on Facebook and Twitter all day? If that’s true why am I spending more and more time thinking maybe getting into this line of work was a terrible idea […]