Happy 10th Birthday, Google!

October 2, 2008

Check out this birthday tribute. I wonder what the next 10 years will hold? It’ll be tough to top these first 10! Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive You’re reading Certified Association Executive by Ben Martin, CAE. Subscribe by RSS.

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Super SocMed stat

October 1, 2008

VAR08 peaked at #8 on search.twitter.com Originally uploaded by bkmcae I knew the volume of tweets about our recent annual convention would be pretty high, but I never expected to have our convention’s twitter tag show up at number eight on the top trending topics at search.twitter.com. Lo and behold! Click on the photo for […]

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Do social media or die

September 27, 2008

Yes, that post title is mostly for effect, but it’s not too far off… According to a new study, 93% of Americans want companies to use social media to communicate with them. It stands to reason that they would expect the same of their associations. Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive You’re reading […]

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Blog Watchdog September 2008

September 26, 2008

Welcome to the latest edition of the Blog Watchdog. I feel the need to say this: I’m a paid freelance marketer for McKinley Marketing. A little humor can create great marketing. And humor makes the work day fun, don’t you think? Recently it was discovered that there’s a glitch in the video game Tiger Woods […]

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The Final Countdown

September 24, 2008

Get this widget! The widget above is best viewed together with the music below: Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive You’re reading Certified Association Executive by Ben Martin, CAE. Subscribe by RSS.

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Some people stink at blogging: Managing a multi-author blog

September 23, 2008

Caron Mason says the folks contributing to her association’s multi-author blog don’t really get it. They aren’t receiving comments, they want her to republish old magazine articles, and they’ve given her some off-the-wall suggestions that she won’t share. Sadface. I’d really like to hear these unusual suggestions. Organizing a multi-author blog (MAB) is not totally […]

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Avast! It be international talk like a pirate day.

September 19, 2008

A-weigh the anchor and man the cannon! All hope abandon, ye who enter here. It be the one day of the year to shoulder a parrot, keelhaul a scoundrel and dust off ye buccaneer-speak. Yes, it be international talk like a pirate day. Aaarrrrr. Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive You’re reading Certified […]

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Twitter for customer service. @comcastcares knows how

September 18, 2008

American Public Media’s Marketplace radio show recently featured Comcast’s use of Twitter to engage with its customers, something I’ve blogged about a few times here. You can read the transcript or listen to the story. You might be subscribed to blog alerts for your association, but if you aren’t subscribed to twitter alerts, you’re missing […]

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My other favorite web app: Saying woo-hoo for Wufoo!

September 18, 2008

A few months ago I told y’all how I just adore WordPress. In that context I mentioned that I’m a walking evangelist for two web apps, one of them being the big W. The other one I simply love also starts with a W. It’s the embeddable survey application with the really ridiculous name, Wufoo.com. […]

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Social media works even when your office’s power goes out

September 16, 2008

I just finished chatting with a friend who works for an international association in the Midwest. Their office’s power has been out for two days due to the storms that ripped through over the weekend, and it’s not expected to come back on for another five. Their email server is down and (I presume) web-integrated […]

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