Twitter is the worst for crisis communications, except for all the others

September 15, 2008

Ed Schipul has a passion for crisis communications and social media for emergency responders. His company consults on issues like these. His boutique firm, Schipul, employs several folks in Houston, directly in the trail left by Hurricane Ike. In light of my two recent posts about using Twitter as a crisis communications tool and Twitter’s […]

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Twitter style speaker and panelist introductions (by the way, this blog post is also 140 characters, not counting the tags)

September 12, 2008

More & more panelists are being asked to do their intros Twitter-style (i.e. < 140 characters). I like. I too will try it at a future event. 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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Thanks NASBLA!

September 11, 2008

Thank you to Ron Sarver, Gail Kulp and the entire staff and membership of NASBLA for hosting me today at your annual convention. It was a real honor to be one of your keynote speakers at your annual meeting, and I hope I was able to provide you with a basic understanding of what social […]

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‘Why’ is more important than ‘what’: Give association members a peek behind the curtain

September 9, 2008

I was drawn to this post about shared governance in university settings by a Google alert for my name. Apparently there is another Ben Martin is commenting on blogs. Go figure! The post is about a certain association that advocates for, among other things, shared governance in universities, but that doesn’t (according to the author) […]

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Thank you OSAE! (and introducing www.BenMartinCAE.com)

September 5, 2008

Thanks to everyone who attended the seminar and lunch meeting today with the Ohio Society of Association Executives. As promised here is the handout from today’s Cool Tools presentation, along with the actual slideshow. Cool Web 2.0 Tools to Help Anyone Get Things Done View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Now for those who […]

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Facebook overtook MySpace in April. Thank God.

September 5, 2008

How did I miss this? 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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Twitter uptime update: Maybe not as bad as previously reported

September 4, 2008

The other day I posted about Twitter.com’s abysmal uptime record. Well, Biz and the Twitter team must have been reading (as they normally do every morning, or so I have heard) because today I got this e-mail from Biz himself (his addy is news@twitter.com, if you didn’t know) reporting that Twitter’s uptime has been well […]

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Recommended by American Mensa*

September 3, 2008

It’s so despicably shameless, I should probably be locked in the stocks, but how could I not link to this? But you don’t have to be a genius to hang out with me. That much should be obvious by now. * The views expressed by the Executive Director of American Mensa do not, I am […]

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In case of disaster use Twitter? You might want to try something else.

September 2, 2008

Much has been made about using SMS/microblogging phenomenon Twitter for disaster communications, and it’s come back to the forefront with Hurricane Gustav in the news. Heck, even yours truly has made much of it over the years. I’ve been re-thinking my recommendation, however. If you’re thinking about using Twitter as a crisis communication tool, please […]

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Google is such a part of the web, why don’t they have their own browser?

September 2, 2008

Now they do. It sounds great, can’t wait to give it a whirl. 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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