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Whoo hoo! Check out Lindy’s awesome interview of the Master of Word of Mouth Marketing, Andy Sernovitz, which just happens to be the cover article in January’s Associations Now.
Want more? Don’t forget to bookmark our WOM bibliography. Got suggestions for links to add? Let us know in the comments…
January 5th, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Cloud computing? Eh?
Commoncraft to the rescue!
Wondering why I’m thinking about this? Because of this. Cloud agents have the potential to change everything and Lindy and I will be talking about them at our Unleash Your Inner Geek: Shiny New 2.0 Objects session at Tech09.
And of course, don’t forget to come to…
January 4th, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Jamie’s end-of-year post and a subsequent conversation we had got me thinking. I’m not a “new year predictions” kind of gal (I tend to just roll with it), nor am I a “looking back at last year” or “new years resolutions” person either, mainly because I do a bit of reflecting throughout…
December 31st, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Check out Nina Simon’s open letter to Museums on Twitter. Not too far a stretch to imagine it for associations, huh!
December 31st, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Skip Shuda has a really good screencast (4:40 mins) that shows you how to combine the data from Groundswell’s Forrester Technographics profile tool and Quantcast, that I talked about here.
Have a really great New Year 2009.
December 31st, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Everyone likes pictures, and I personally have a short attention span so I loved this: Trendspotting turned those socmed predictions into a fab slideshow. Enjoy!
December 30th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Check out the comments on my post about Five Fears Associations Have about Social Media.
Thank to all for commenting, and please, keep ‘em coming and register for the webinar (go on, it’s free)! Remember, I’ll pick my top five to discuss. Although at this rate, maybe we should have an unconference…
December 30th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
14,998 people have submitted 11,992 questions and cast 512,268 votes…
but we want to know what you think
Hope everyone had a great holiday break! I am very excited, tomorrow is my official last day at my old association. Dark side, here I come! Can.not.wait.
December 29th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Like me, they love to share. Check out their nice report on the State of the Twittersphere.
December 26th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
From Rohit Bhargava. Read the full post and follow up posts too.
December 26th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
You know what they are.
- Loss of control over your marketing messages;
- how do deal with negative comments about you;
- how to empower staff to speak appropriately for the association;
- how to manage the time suck;
- what if we build it and they don’t come?…
What a year this has turned out to be, huh!
I hope to find time to post a personal note about it all in a couple of days (the holidays are a good time to step back and take stock, aren’t they!) but in the meantime I started making a…
December 24th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Heather at Diosa Communications has started Twitter profiles to act as portals for Nonprofit Organizations, Higher Education, and Small Businesses:
twitter.com/nonprofitorgs
twitter.com/higheredu
twitter.com/smbusinesses
Check ‘em out and follow, if you are one of these. If you’re looking to see who’s on Twitter in these categories, checking out the lists of followers is a good place…
December 23rd, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Check this out - it’s Intel’s social media policy/guidelines for employees. I would reprint some of it, but the whole thing is toally awesome.
If you need to develop some for your own organization, I’d use this as a model - in fact, if anyone has specific ideas about modifying this…
December 23rd, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Then perhaps you should check out Idealware’s directory. They are building a comprehensive report comparing the options for non-profits. You can buy a listing like in any directory, but if you really deliver the goods, let them check you out and review your CMS in their report.
December 23rd, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Done (just love having a to-do checked off so quickly). Thanks. Now to practice writing that on checks ;) 
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