Everything you need to know to get started with adding some social networking aspects to your conference can be found in this post by Chris Brogan.
Many thanks to Rich, who is at least temporarily back to blogging on TSMI’s Trade Show Marketing Report.
I learned today, via Search Tools, that Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google have agreed to specific extensions to the robots.txt file protocol. All of their search engines will now honor additional directives. More info from Yahoo! and Google.
What is robots.txt some of you may be asking? It is a simple text file you can place […]
Read & discuss at david@highcontext.com (C. David Gammel)'s blog.
Just a few things to let you know about.
1) NTEN has released a CMS Satisfaction Survey which compares a bunch of CMS vendors. There was a lot of talk on this topic recently on some of the ASAE listserves, particularly as pertaining to small staff associations. The report is free to NTEN members, $50 to non-members (but seeing as membership is less than $85 per year (since it’s currently pro-rated), you might as well join this very useful association.
2) Another awesome idea from NTEN - they have just started “Office Hours“, where volunteer experts on any number of given topics - such as communications, IT, fundraising, and leadership - can chat with you in real time in online chat rooms on certain scheduled dates/times. Again this is a member benefit, but you can at least read all about it.
3) It’s not too late to register and come with me to BlogPotomac, on June 13 at State Theater in Falls Church. “BlogPotomac seeks to provide a local “un-conference” on best marketing practices for the social media community in the D.C. metro area.”
4) Did you see the article in the Washington Post about how real-world social networks can be shown to be impacting behavior (such as quitting smoking)? Mark Kuznicki has a good post on how non-profits are slow to realize the value is social networks for charitable causes and invites us to attend the Toronto Social Tech Training Workshop June 22-24. - “a unique hands-on Web 2.0 oriented learning intensive for people working in the social change sector. “
5) Fellow blogger buddy Jeff Cobb of Mission to Learn fame has launched a new blog, Hedgehog and Fox. Check it out. I particularly love this recent post about cultivating your blog like a flower garden.
6) Jamie Notter has a real job! So exciting. Read all about it here - he’s merged his consulting business with an AMC, Management Solutions Plus, and has come over to the dark side of association management. Should be interesting, and I expect we’ll be able to read all kinds of new insight on his blog from this experience.
7) Google have launched Google Health:
“Google Health puts you in charge of your health information. It’s safe, secure, and free.
I suspect I will want to blog on this topic much more extensively later, but in the meantime, have a look around it. Fred Wilson also had a very interesting discussion about making our health records public (by choice). I want to keep an eye on this issue and see where it leads - could have vast social and political implications.
We all know mobile applications are the next wave. Here’s a good summary brought to you by the Carnival of the Mobilists of what’s going on in that particular tech-verse. (did I just invent a new word? probably not… )
Anyway, happy reading. And if you are local or in town, come to BlogPotomac, it will be a chance to schmooze with DC’s fledgling but very active social media scenesters.
How strong is your capacity to learn? Can you leap complex concepts with a single bound? Master a new language faster than a speeding locomotive? Roll your eyes at hyperbole without even blinking? Perhaps you are a super learner.
“Secrets of the Super-Learners” is an article from a 1991 Harvard Magazine supplement that I seem […]
I see so many blog posts that were obviously composed in Microsoft Word, because they have inherited all the crazy formatting that Word uses. They look dreadful. Well, here’s the easiest way to strip all that junk out of your post: Copy the text out of Word and then paste it into the HTML or Code pane of your blog platform. Then switch back to WYSIWYG, Compose, Visual, or whatever pane your blogging platform offers.
Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive
It?s a simple act that should take one click. Unfortunately, some people don?t want to be contacted that easily ? if at all.
Some associations do not list any individual email contacts on their web sites ? not for staff or board members. Others list contacts for everyone ? except the CEO.
They may require visitors to sign up for Linkedin, or another site, in order to contact them. Or, they may force people to speak through blog comments, when a private conversation would be more appropriate.
Some individuals disguise the contact button, assigning it a nondescript title that barely hints at its real purpose. Craftier ones hide the contact on one of many web pages, forcing visitors to search the entire site (perhaps that?s the point) to find it.
Associations are all about people who need people. Make it easy for the people who need you to contact you.
From @nedra - follow her on Twitter, she rocks.
Check out the full list, lots more hilariousness in the comments.
“You know you spend too much time on Twitter when…
… you start calling your family things like @Dad or @Rachky in conversations.
… you only speak in short bursts of 140 characters and self-edit to use synonyms with fewer letters.
… you make decisions about what you’ll have for lunch based on how interesting it will sound on Twitter.
… you find yourself thinking up new Alltop topics in the hopes of getting Kawasakied.
… you make a new offline friend and announce to all your other friends that you’re just 2 people short of having 200 friends.
… your swear word of choice is “TweetJeebus!”
… your Twitter followers know you are pregnant before your husband does.
… throughout the day you compose tweets in your head about what you’re doing, even if you are nowhere near your computer.
… during a Twitter outage, you compulsively hit “refresh” every three seconds hoping this will be the time it will come back on.
… most of your email is now either direct messages or new follower notifications.
… you don’t feel the need to go to a conference in person anymore because someone else is livetweeting it.
… you get all your news from @BreakingNewsOn.
… you find yourself referring to the telephone’s pound key as a ‘hashtag.’
… you have no idea what’s going on in your friends’ lives unless they are on Twitter.
… you give people your personal website address as a TinyURL.
… you can’t hear what someone says to you and you say, “Could you please retweet that?”
Hee hee hee… thanks Sean Twombly for the heads up!
In case anyone is wondering, I do, actually, own a Twitter t-shirt…
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