Every year for the past few years, I’ve watched other association friends and colleagues take the CAE exam. And each time I’ve thought “should I do it?” And answered myself “no”! No, because I swore to myself when I graduated from college about a billion years ago that I’d never have to go to school […]
Think You Have Control Over Your Company’s Linkedin Group? Think Again
Photo by somegeekintn on Flickr The fact that depending on free services to house your organization’s online community is a risky business is something I’ve blogged about before. Like when Facebook just decided to remove the Discussions feature from pages, so if discussions happened to be a valuable asset to either your org or your members, you […]
Buh-Bye Daily Deals
Photo by Shlomi Fish on Flickr Last week when TechCrunch tied what sounds like Plum District’s eminent demise to “changes in the hyperlocal deals market,” I wondered if the issue was actually about daily deals in general rather than hyperlocal deals. But now Groupon’s second quarter earnings are in and they are, as Slate says, “dismal”, and […]
ASAE12 Wrap-Up–My 5 Takeaways
So many thoughts about the ASAE Annual meeting I just recovered returned from, so little time to distill them into a coherent blog post while catching up on regular life. So rather than sit here and agonize over coming up with pithy commentary, I figured I’d just go with the tried-and-true list format: Mobile apps […]
Threat to Associations? The $10,000 a Year Online Community
Yesterday I saw a job on Twitter: “Membership sales for Social Media.org.” As an association veteran, I’m used to membership director or manager positions–but have never seen a membership position billed as a sales position. So I went to check out Social Media.org, and discovered it is a “community for social media leaders at the […]
Are Conference Apps Ready for Prime Time?
As I get ready to ship out to Dallas for ASAE’s Annual Meeting at the end of this week, I’ve realized it’s probably about time to plan out my schedule for what I’ll be doing once I’m there. The paper meeting program ASAE sent me a few months ago? Long gone–I am not one for […]
How to Manage Social Employees, Social Media at Events, and Car Talk
Whew, this summer has been way too busy for my liking. This is the first summer I think basically ever where I have no summer vacation planned, and I have to say it’s kind of depressing. Before I feel too sorry for myself, I will say that I’m taking some staycation time next week, but […]
Musings On Influence in the Association Space
So it being almost Friday and me not having blogged in a while and also overdue for a good rant, I’m going to go here. “Here” being the top 10 Most Influential & Authoritative Association Professionals Online list posted by an association vendor’s marketing director this week. No disrespect intended to my good friends who […]
Why Facebook Can’t be Trusted to Care About Kids’ Safety
I haven’t yet written about Facebook’s recent announcement that they are developing technology that would allow children younger than 13 years old to use the site under parental supervision. I’ve been thinking about it, though, and what a joke it is that anyone is depending on Facebook to look out for the interests of kids, and […]
What Does “Have it All” Even Mean?
My feelings about the epic article about women and careers in The Atlantic that has everyone buzzing are thoroughly conflicted. As much as I agreed with and appreciated some of the issues the author raises in the article, as just a regular woman who is neither an ivy league professor nor a current or former […]