Just read this fantastic post over at AriWriter from guest poster Ethan Yarbrough, who explains how as a social media expert he wants to be asked not only how many social networks he has managed, but how many have succeeded or failed.Read the details o…
April 21st, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continuedsocial network
NTEN Water Cooler Chat 3/19
Your friendly neighborhood Socialfish will be “IN” the NTEN Office Hours Communications Chat Room every Thursday (that’s today!!) at 3 pm EST. Got burning questions about social media strategy? Or just want to hang out and shoot the breeze and get a br…
March 19th, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
SxSW and Guest Blogging for the Forum Effect
It’s SxSW week! We can’t be there, but we can write about it! So this is just a little head’s up that Lindy and I are guest blogging this month for the Forum Effect, in conjunction with our article in the Association Forum of Chicagoland’s Forum Maga…
March 10th, 2009 | Maddie Grant | Comments | Continued
LinkedIn Adds More Apps
BMart first alerted us to the fact that LinkedIn is trying really hard not to suck as badly. But he had a few, um, suggestions to offer. Looks like someone was listening, as they’ve added a bunch more applications:
- Box on LinkedIn: Share files and collaborate with your network.
- Huddle on LinkedIn: Private…
Word of Mouth for Associations
Call it viral marketing, call it social marketing, call it word of mouth, whatever you call it, this is a HUGE issue in association management.
Sherri Jacobs, of McKinley Marketing, recently wrote an article on this topic for ASAE’s Membership Developments enewsletter, and there’s an experiment in Word of Mouth marketing…
October 1st, 2008 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued
Setting Technology Policies That Make Sense in a Web 2.0 World
On Tuesday, September 9, I had the opportunity to speak to the Potomac Employers Roundtable. A group of about 30 people, largely senior HR and Administration professionals from a wide range of organizations (PR consultancies, HR consultancies, nonprofits, and for profits) gathered in the board room of Williams & Mullen bright…
September 11th, 2008 | Elizabeth Engel | Comments | Continued
Wanna Social Network with Me?
Raindrop here. Mom is chillin’ so I thought I’d write in her blog for her.
- Plus I’ve got big news.
- I finally have a profile in Facebook!
I’ve been bugging Mom about me and Facebook for months.
- I’m the Offical Mascot for the Chapter Leaders Playground.
- I need to help get the…
Social Networks Enable (But Don’t Create) Strong Conversations
I was lucky enough to have an opportunity to write an article for the ASAE & the Center Professional Development Forum Online – Ironically I made my PD debut right as I made my switch to marketing.
You have to be a member of ASAE to read the full article. However, I…
June 25th, 2008 | Bob Wolfe | Comments | Continued
Future of Associations Programming Modeled off of a T-Shirt Company?
First, thanks to Maddie and Alyssa for the comments to the last post.
What a past couple weeks – I’m terribly behind in my blog reading, but I’m doing ok on magazines.
The current issue of Inc. Magazine headlined with a company where the customer quite literally is the company, i.e the customer…
June 16th, 2008 | Bob Wolfe | Comments | Continued
Up Close and Personal
My FaceBook page serves as my personal and professional page – so there will be times my professional peers and even managers will see a side of me that I normally wouldn’t share. A good example was a recent wall post by my sister. While the post itself is fine,…
April 30th, 2008 | Bob Wolfe | Comments | Continued
When it comes to Social Networks – Age Ain’t a Thing
Think your members are too old to get online? Think all this web2.0 is just for millenials and generation X?
If you think that – I have just two words for you:
Remember – Age is just a number! (To be honest I’ll probably continue to post under young association professional…
April 29th, 2008 | Bob Wolfe | Comments | Continued
What I am reading
Jamie tagged me with what I’m reading so here goes.
I tend to alternate between leisure and professional development books – I’m current reading for leisure.
The book is American Gods written by Neil Gaiman.
It’s interesting though, and with a bit of stretching, the book relates to associations (bear with me). This…
April 23rd, 2008 | Bob Wolfe | Comments | Continued
YAP Group on Facebook
I’ve been sick this week and I’m out next week at a conference so this may be the last post for a week or so.
However, a Young Association Professionals Facebook group launced! Headed by Maddie, the group feels that… age is a state of mind. So anyone is welcome who…
April 4th, 2008 | Bob Wolfe | Comments | Continued
Members on Facebook
To continue on yesterday’s post, I’ve been reaching out to some of my own members on facebook as I have time now that I’ve had Sr. Staff buy into Web2.0 thanks to Wikis and other experimental social groups. I’ve recieved a good response so far, some only signed up and used…
March 26th, 2008 | Bob Wolfe | Comments | Continued
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