Ironic that yesterday’s association chat (#assnchat; takes place every Tuesday at 2 pm thanks to Jeff De Cagna) was supposed to be about virtual attendee experience…but because the world felt compelled to live-tweet Michael Jackson’s funeral, Twitter was so slow that we had to postpone #assnchat. I know I’m not supposed to admit this, but […]
Does Forrester’s “Hub and Spoke” Model Work For Association Social Media?
Forrester Research recently released a report on how companies should organize for social media. In the report, they detail three basic organizational models: The Tire (Distributed): Where each business unit or group may create its own social media programs without a centralized approach. Forrester calls this approach the “tire,” as it originates at the edges […]
Twitter Isn’t a Numbers Game My A$$
Yesterday an exchange on Twitter got me thinking about the whole concept of “followers” and “following” and how crazy the whole thing is. I saw Chris Brogan tweet this: I asked: He replied: I have to say I’m surprised and weirdly offended. I’m so tired of hearing (ok, reading) all the talk in social media […]
Eff It Off Friday Links
It’s summer and it’s Friday so I’m having a hard time gathering my thoughts into a cohesive post; rather than wait for the words to start flowing I’ll let these links do the talking themselves: Awesome post by Josh Bernoff on the Groundswell Blog about Social technology: a way of life . . . or […]
Buzz2009 Social Media For Associations–Why I Wish I Was Going
Right now I should be battling traffic on my way to BlogPotomac but, because I don’t want to go down in the bad mom hall of fame as being the mom who chose a blogger conference over her son’s grade-school graduation, I’m not going. I did slog through traffic hell to go to the happy […]
Claim Your Company’s Name on Facebook–But Only if You Have 1,000 Fans
The day has finally come: as of this Saturday morning at 12:01 am, you can claim a vanity url for your business on Facebook. That means instead of having to hand out coupons that look like this: you’ll be able to, instead, just use “www.facebook.com/Nest”(I’m just using this one as an example because it happens […]
Is Summer the Season for Social Media Malaise?
Recently I just haven’t been feeling it as much–blogging, tweeting–just the whole social media thing. Life is too busy and sometimes I question why I put all this other stuff on myself when I already have a more-than-full plate with kids, a husband, a full-time job, etc. I blogged about it last week with regard […]
Twitter Honeymoon Period=Over?
I’m wondering if my love affair with Twitter is starting to wind down. I’ve been at it for well over a year now, basically addicted and loving every minute. Learning stuff. Meeting People. Promoting my blog. I’ve gone from thinking Twitter was a stupid waste of time to seeing it as a tool that has […]
What’s New In Nerd World
There’s lots of excitement in the air if you’re me–cool new tools, ongoing blogger drama and an awesome conference coming up: Google Wave–basically “a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web” that apparently originated from the question ““What might e-mail look like if it were invented today?” I’m having trouble wrapping my head […]
Who You Calling A Nobody?
Today was my daughter’s 13th birthday so I let her skip school and took her to the mall. While I was stranded in the hell that is Hollister/Abercrombie/Pac Sun/Aeropostale (e.g. loud music and lots of perfume in the air) I was thankfully able to entertain myself with my iPhone. And, naturally, Twitter. The Washington Post […]