This is a guest post from Eric Lanke, the CEO of the National Fluid Power Association. This is the fifth in a series of posts he’s writing about how he, as a CEO, is building and sustaining an intentional culture in his ...
I am 47 years old, and I recognize that I am either in or headed to the "get off my lawn" stage of life. I find myself looking back at the old days more than I used to, and I frequently want to remind my teenage children ...
This edition of the Friday quote is not from Humanize--it's from Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web, by Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant. This book came out in 2010 (a life ...
Guest Post, by Amanda Kaiser We are all inundated with messages about “new marketing.” Experts tell us to try the new marketing strategies because the old are dead. In fact, just about every marketing tactic is changi ...
Yesterday I commented on the number one frustration I hear from the non-users of social media (that it's all about what people had for lunch). Today we'll tackle another popular attack from a few years ago: that social m ...
Remember the early days of Twitter, when nobody understood it? I was a fairly early adopter, and I remember that the number-one complaint I would hear from people who didn't understand Twitter was that they really didn't ...
Maddie and I had the great privilege of presenting today at ASAE's Technology Conference with Tom Hood, the CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs. Tom's a CEO who has fully embraced social media, and is super smart to ...
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, there was a bit of a blowup in one of the online communities to which I belong. The American Society of Association Executives has an active private online community, and the other day ...
Maddie pointed me to this great post by Stowe Boyd on the GigaOm blog, which is in reaction to this great post by Chris Heuer over on Brian Solis' blog. They are both fairly long posts, but here's the gist. Chris Heue ...
I spoke at the National Association of Corporate Directors' Board Leadership Conference this week. I was given 20 minutes on their "Innovation Stage" to talk about the relationship between social media and management. My ...
