I saw someone talking about this post on Twitter and went to read it for myself because I wasn’t sure what all the fuss was about. Turns out padding your salary when a potential employer asks what you’re making is such bad advice–for women–that Dailyworth had to retract the post. Seriously? I think that’s utter […]
Buzz2010 and Charlene Li’s Open Leadership
Today I had the awesome experience of meeting Charlene Li at Buzz2010–and I’m still buzzing! I can’t even describe how great it was–between being 5 feet away from Charlene to how great her presentation was to how relevant it was to associations in particular to her signing my book….Ok, I’ll digress now. Here’s the Twitter […]
Internet Safety Month–And Why Parents MUST Be On Facebook if Their Kids Are
If I wasn’t already aware of the importance of Internet Safety Month, spending some time perusing my kids’ Facebook accounts this weekend would have been a sobering wake-up call. (My kids are 14 and almost 12 and yes, both have Facebook accounts–monitored by me.) The thing is, I was already very much aware of the […]
Open Leadership–and Why Associations Shouldn’t Outsource Social Media
I was privileged to receive a review copy of Charlene Li’s new book Open Leadership. With almost every page turn I couldn’t help but think “every association leader needs to read this book.” One line in particular jumped out at me: “The first step is to understand the specific benefits of being open, which is […]
Does Summer=Social Media Burnout Time?
Just as regularly as I get depressed in winter, I am finding myself feeling burnt-out on all things social media for the second summer in a row. Last June I blogged about how I just wasn’t feeling like blogging, tweeting, “engaging”–the whole social media shebang–and wondered if it had anything to do with the nice […]
What Your Facebook Page is Worth…To Vitrue
Social media people love them some grading tools–you know, the kind that show you what your Twinfluence or Twitter grade are, or how popular your blog is, or even how good your Foursquare “mojo” is. So naturally they’re all going crazy for Vitrue’s “Social Page Evaluator” which allegedly reveals how much a Facebook page is […]
Contests & Giveaways–Good Idea or Legal Problem?
Everybody likes to win stuff, right? Brands must think so because a cornerstone of social media marketing seems to be the contest: blog giveaways and Facebook contests, in particular. Especially in mom blogging, giveaways seem to be a great idea: brands get the magical juju that being mentioned by a bonifide mom blogger brings–for free–and […]
Should You Quit Your Job if the Boss Doesn’t “Get” Social Media
The title of this post caught my eye: Is C-suite rejection of social media reason for you to quit? I actually did quit my job pretty much for this exact reason. If you know me or follow this blog you’ll recall I left my job last fall, due in large part to the frustration of […]
How Far is Too Far to Bend Over for Social Media?
Maybe I just have a hard heart but the following exchange just makes me tired. Long story short: a blogger wrote about how his 8 year-old son who LOVES drawing airplanes sent a drawing and a letter to Boeing, asking them if they’d like to build his plane for real. The kid received a form […]
How to Embed a Tweet in a Blog Post
I saw this on Kami Huyse’s blog, Communication Overtones, and had to give it a try. Here are her instructions for embedding a tweet in your blog: Step-by-Step Instructions for Inserting an Embeddable Tweet: Choose the Tweet you want to use on the Web by clicking on its timestamp Copy the unique URL for the […]