It’s one of the things Clay Shirky said at ASAE09–control is a thing of the past. Clarity should be the goal for today. Clarity and control are not new topics among some of my favorite association blogs. Still, the way Clay Shirky framed the issue was, well, very clear. Scott Briscoe talks a little about [...]
October 7th, 2009 | Lindy Dreyer | Comments | Continuedcommunications
Ask the CAE: How do you get your blog posts to appear as notes in your facebook profile?
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This would definitely qualify as a frequently asked question, so rather than explain it, let me show you how to do it:
Adding blog posts to your facebook notes — automagically! from Ben Martin on Vimeo.
Not one, but TWO association-specific Digg-like sites launch this week
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I’m not a big Digg fan, mostly becuase a lot of the stuff I would like to share (association stuff, mostly) gets buried by all of the tech, celebrity, political and environmental news that appears front and center on the site. Perhaps these [...]
April 18th, 2009 | Ben Martin | Comments | Continued
Dogma or Data? How do you make social media decisions?
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These days, it seems like everyone’s got an opinion about social media. Trouble is, opinions don’t go very far in helping associations determine which strategies and tactics they should employ as they seek to capitalize on the…
February 10th, 2009 | Ben Martin | Comments | Continued
McKinley’s Blog Watchdog – January 2009
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Welcome to the first Blog Watchdog of 2009. Remember that you can get this column and more in McKinley’s monthly newsletter.
Unlike Cindy, I took a lengthy vacation during the holiday season. I did, however, find time to…
January 30th, 2009 | Ben Martin | Comments | Continued
Avoid embarrassment: Update your website copyright notice
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Today’s the first day of 2009. Make sure your website and e-mail broadcast templates no longer have footers that say “© 2001-2008″, or something like that.
January 1st, 2009 | Ben Martin | Comments | Continued
I Can’t Hear You…
Something happened today…
- One of my ears swelled internally.
- It feels like a water balloon in there.
- I can’t hear with that ear.
I’ve had this ear challenge before.
- It’s a pain.
- Will eventually go away.
- (Thankfully I don’t have to fly this week!)
Not hearing with one ear makes conversations interesting.
- I see…
More on Community Management
Check out this post by my blogger buddy Dennis McDonald on whether everyone in an organization should have customer service responsibilities. He picked up on my earlier comment about community management, where I said that community management should be part of everyone’s responsibility who deals directly with customers or members.
I am…
December 16th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Why be boring…
…when you can be creative? Turn a 404 “not found” page into something that makes people smile. Twitter does this really well.
If you KNOW some things are annoying, what can you do to make them less so? Like, say, a dues renewal notice…? Hmmmm….
December 8th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
More on how huge this is…
“Obama-Biden Transition Project Co-chair John D. Podesta announced that all policy documents from official meetings with outside organizations will be publicly available for review and discussion on Change.gov”.
If they can do it, so can we all. Give your stakeholders a seat at the table.
“Transparency is the process that leads to…
December 6th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
December 2008 Membership Developments newsletter is a super-good one
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Great articles by Lindy Dreyer, Andy Steggles, Caroline Fuchs, CAE and a book review from Rebecca Gordon, CAE. One of the best Membership Development Newsletters I’ve seen — ever!
December 5th, 2008 | Ben Martin | Comments | Continued
5 new social media positions to think about
The Online Marketer Blog lists five social media jobs they expect companies will fill in the next five years.
International Community Compliance Chief: Facebook and MySpace may be dominant in the U.S., but how much attention are you paying to social networks in other countries? [...]
Community Manager: People are talking about…
December 2nd, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Ask the CAE: Embedding audio file onto a web page
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Today I got this question from a reader:
December 1st, 2008 | Ben Martin | Comments | ContinuedI want to record a phone interview with someone in our industry and put the audio on our web site for people to listen to. I’m thinking about using Skype for the online call, and then using…
Overcompensating for something?
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Here in Richmond, one of the major topics of conversation is the financial woes of Richmond-based consumer electronics chain Circuit City. You probably know all about the 150 stores being closed nationwide, but you might not know that they’ve laid off 500-800 workers at…
November 24th, 2008 | Ben Martin | Comments | Continued
Hot tip: Magcloud prints magazines on demand
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Magcloud looks like a nifty competitor to Lulu.
MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we’ll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.
Sure, Lulu does magazines, but Lulu is a…
November 18th, 2008 | Ben Martin | Comments | Continued
hi i read... and email lists is the single biggest mistake in membership recruitment. In any given outreach 
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