While reading Sunday’s Washington Post, I came across the headline “The Post fails a young blogger.” This should be interesting, I thought, and read it. It was not only interesting but scarily familiar to me. The article describes how the Post blogger responsible for blogPost just resigned because of the no-win nature of her job. Her […]
Karl Rove at ASAE? I Wish I Cared More
A few weeks ago, a storm started brewing over the announced opening keynote speakers for ASAE’s annual conference: Karl Rove and James Carville. As I’m avidly anti-politics (I don’t even vote), I immediately got fired up upon hearing the name “Karl Rove” because I know enough about politics to know he bashed my hero Elizabeth […]
Ashley Judd & Misogyny–I Call BS
Warning: rant that has nothing to do with social media ahead. If you’re on Facebook (and who isn’t?–my hat’s off to you if you’re not) you’ve probably seen about a billion women posting “you go girl!” type of comments about this piece written by Ashely Judd in which she “slaps the media in the face” […]
Spring Break
Source: katiearmour.tumblr.com via Holly on Pinterest Guess what time it is? Blogcation! For the first time ever we’re actually going away for spring break. So no blog posts for a week or so. In the meantime, here’s the post I recently wrote for SocialFish: The Perils of Pinterest (yes, I’m slightly obsessed with Pinterest lately.) On […]
5 Cool Pinterest Tools
Source: thisisblythe.com via Maggie on Pinterest After an initial honeymoon period with Pinterest where I used it strictly for fun, pinning pictures of English cottages, bee stuff, and all manner of cute things like Blythe dolls, tiny things, and…sorry…got distracted there looking up those boards to link. Anyway, after my initial honeymoon period where I […]
If Your Members Organize Their Own Committee, Are You Failing Them?
Sadly, I did not go to SXSW (mom, that’s not “S-W-S-W” but South by Southwest). But I may as well have been there based on how many times I’ve seen it mentioned online over the past week. Sigh…maybe next year. At any rate, one of the thousands of SXSW things that flowed through either my […]
Facebook Timeline For Pages: It Is Not That Serious
If the past few weeks in the blogosphere have been a blur of the word “Pinterest,” the next few will undoubtedly be the same thing–except instead of posts about Pinterest you’ll be drowning in posts about Facebook Timeline for Pages. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing–there are a lot of useful posts out there already–precise […]
Yes, Pinterest is Driving Traffic to Women’s Magazines. Your Org is Not a Women’s Magazine.
I am trying to keep my love of Pinterest alive despite the ridiculously overwhelming influx of marketing hype about it–really, I am. But it’s getting increasingly hard, as just about every other tweet, blog post, and/or email I see contains the word “Pinterest.” Seriously? Just because it’s driving traffic to women’s magazines does not mean […]
So You Think You Want to be a Community Manager?
Even though this article is recent, the fact that community management is one of the hottest jobs around isn’t news–after all, 2010 was the “Year of the Community Manager” and the past few years have been all about talking about the hottest job around–community manager (aka social media manager or about a dozen other titles). […]
Pinterest Can Monetize My Links All They Want
The big news of the week is that Pinterest is apparently monetizing links without disclosing the practice to users. I was going to write a post about why I’m ok with that, but Allison at BlogWorld already wrote basically the exact thing I was going to write so I’ll save myself the trouble and just […]