I recently came across this blog post at Twittercism by a blogger who took it upon himself to find all 47 (and counting) employees at Twitter and figure out what their roles are.Here, then, in alphabetical order (by first name), is a list of the 47 pe…
May 18th, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continuedsharing
I think I’m going to take notes like this from now on.
I heart Rob Cottingham. These are his notes on Clay Shirky’s talk at NTC. Rob, what do you use to get this online? a Bamboo tablet? So frackin’ awesome.——————————————————–var addthis_pub=”maddiegrant”;
May 2nd, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Change.gov is open for questions
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
2008’s most popular posts
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
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
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
Crowdsourcing “Associations Now”
Have you heard? Associations Now is trying a crowdsourcing experiment for its May issue. Don’t often see the kinds of articles you really want? Now’s your chance to let them know.
Here’s what you need to do:
November 1-30: Brainstorm article ideas! Post yours to the discussion forum on the project site or email them to…
November 12th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Fish where the fish are…
We say this all the time… but we’re not the only ones. Nice e-book from Chris Brogan. It’s very “B2C” but the issues are the same for all of us.
November 5th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Now this is a cool business card
Check it out. What do you think? What would yours look like?
And speaking of business, cards, we had an interesting conversation last week with Jeremy Epstein, who asks people to rate and comment on his business cards…
You know I am partial to gaping void cards. My current one is “badass chick…
November 3rd, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
IMPORTANT: Tweet The Vote!!
This is the groundswell and citizen journalism in action. By sending a tweet or text with the #votereport hashtag (plus other specific ones), you can tell the world how your voting experience is. The data will the be used to show a true picture of the US election nationwide, using…
November 2nd, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Lil’ pile o’ links
I haven’t really done “quick picks” or “top ten latest links” or anything like that before (that I can remember, anyway, brain is a little fried after my strategic planning hell this week), and I usually share stuff in Google Reader which feeds out to my Facebook/Friendfeed/etc updates, but I have…
September 20th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
To reinvent the wheel…or not?
Got this great comment from my social media buddy Lynn Morton of SNAP fame. This was to do with our recent conversation about the death (or not) of ASAE.
“I love how ASAE has the Knowledge Center, I use it all the time for articles and reference materials. Then as I am…
Is ASAE dying?
Bit of a heavy subject for a Friday, I grant you. But listen to this recent comment:
“While I am an ASAE member (solely because I get it free through my work) I have a lot of gripes with how the organization incorporates vendors into the mix.
It seems not a day…
September 12th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Quote of the week: Be Irresistible
Quote of the Week by funny man Saul Colt (in a conversation with Liz Strauss).
“Remarkable isn’t enough anymore, you need to be irresistible!”
“Remarkable is something a lot of folks are striving for, some get there and some don’t but remarkable is still a very respectable goal. But irresistible is not only…
Authenticity is the new Cool and other lessons from my Pecha Kucha Session at ASAE 2008
Jeff De Cagna and I conducted a session at ASAE using the Japanese presentation format Pecha Kucha, where the entire presentation is done using 20 slides (images only, minimal or no text) for a maximum of 20 seconds…
August 27th, 2008 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
Maddie - I'm glad you got a google, er, giggle out of that post. Thanks! 
Thanks for including me in this list. I am very flattered. (You've put me in good company.) 
Like electricity, the Web is everywhere and changes everything, But the one thing it can't deliver is freedom. 
Thanks, Maddie! Have a great weekend. 
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