Stranded or Leading?
A lot of people who are doing social media in organizations, particularly associations, may resonate with the article on the Harvard Business Publishing blog that refers to "stranded evangelists." These are the ...
Category: Social Media
Buzz 09
I don't normally do a whole lot of promotional blog posts. I certainly mention speaking engagements that I have and sure I like to plug the events that friends of mine are doing, though obviously I only plug them whe ...
I'm done Being "Messaged"
A couple of weeks ago I did a brief post about doing rather than saying. It stemmed from my frustration with traditional advertising messages I was hearing on TV. They were so disconnected from me and seemingly disingenu ...
I’m done Being “Messaged”
A couple of weeks ago I did a brief post about doing rather than saying. It stemmed from my frustration with traditional advertising messages I was hearing on TV. They were so disconnected from me and seemingly disingenu ...
Is Twitter Serious?
That was the topic of a lengthy conversation on the ASAE & The Center Executive Management listserver this past week. It revealed the usual concerns: it's a waste of time, I don't want to know what you had fo ...
New Leadership
For some reason the blog posts I've been reading have been on fire lately. Particularly hot has been the writing of Maddie Grant, both on the YAP blog and on her Socialfishing blog. Her post on Sociafishing was based ...
Word of Mouth Meme
I've been tagged by blogging and social media superstar Lindy Dryer in the Word of Mouth Meme that Lindy's partner in crime, Maddie Grant, started recently. The point of this meme is to simply share stories about ...
Be Curious (Because Learning Means More to You Than It Did to the Cat)
Social media has been a topic on my radar recently, mostly because I was at ASAE & The Center's Technology conference in January. And every time the conversation gets going about social media, I notice that quite ...
Thoughts About Wikipedia
Wikipedia has caught my attention lately. First, in the article I blogged about yesterday in the October HBR, Scott Cook from Intuit is talking about using volunteers to help for-profit companies build their businesses. ...
Businesses Competing for Volunteers
The October HBR is chock full of "myth of control" articles. I mentioned a small one yesterday, but the lead article by Scott Cook of Intuit (maker of Quicken) is all about "harnessing the masses" by ...