This is a guest post by Sherry Marts, PhD, President and CEO, S*Marts Consulting Association executives know that the Millennial generation, which will soon be the majority of our workforce and membership base, is the most diverse generation we’ve ever had in the US. And the yet-to-be-named generation coming up behind them is even more so. […]
Thoughts on Ageism: What Goes Around Comes Around
Last week was an abnormally social one for me, which turned out to be a good thing. I caught up with old friends and spent time with new ones and pushed myself outside my comfort zone…my comfort zone being go to work, go home, stay home. Nothing wrong with that but you don’t really tend […]
Twitter Spring Cleaning and Privacy Check
Now that I’m re-addicted to Twitter–for better or for worse–I started noticing that even though I follow a lot of people, I never happen to see any tweets from them unless I search. It occurred to me to check my settings, vaguely recalling they’ve changed their algorithm (now that I Google it I see it […]
The future of journalism is…copying association publishing
If you’ve been following the Community Brands saga, you already know that the association tech space is currently attracting the interest–and dollars–of private equity investors. If you follow Twitter, you might already be aware of another trend that could prove to be either an opportunity or a death knell for associations: the future of journalism and […]
LinkedIn Groups: What you Need to Know Now
If you read this blog, you know I tend to be sort of a glass-half-empty kind of gal. I prefer to think of myself as a realist rather than a pessimist, but hey–someone has to be the downer, right? 🙂 But with regard to LinkedIn–specifically, LinkedIn groups–I’ve been chronicling them being stripped of features and […]
The Community Brands Deal is Great for Vendors; Associations, Not So Much
If you work in the association sector, you’ve probably heard the buzz about the consolidation of three major players in the AMS (for those not in association-world that’s Association Management Software…basically CRM for associations) space: YourMembership (YM), Abila and Aptify “joining forces” under a new “family of brands”: Community Brands. I’m using all the quotes to […]
Is the Mental Health Stigma Divide the New Digital Divide?
So last Friday was World Health Day, the theme of which this year was depression and a “let’s talk” campaign geared at encouraging people to seek and get help for depression. From the WHO press release about the campaign: “Depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide. According to the […]
Social Media by the Numbers 2017
Ah, winter–how I hate you. I have managed to catch every germ and bug around this winter, which led to me having to miss not one but TWO presentations a few weeks ago, one in Orlando. And if missing the trip wasn’t bad enough, I actually spent a decent amount of time creating non-crappy […]
Social Media Stress is Real
(Disclosure: Even though I work for the American Psychological Association (APA), I’m writing this post as me, personal blogger, not as an official rep of APA.) Today, APA released the second part of their annual Stress in America™ report, which focuses on something that’s super real for me and, according to the report, 86% of US […]
Balancing Business as Usual With Our New Reality
I’ve never been a political activist at all–or even someone who paid attention to politics at all. Hell, until a few years ago, I rarely voted because I just thought the whole thing was a game in which my personal vote had little or no meaning so why bother. Watching House of Cards was about […]
