Effective Uses of Social Media in Associations

July 16, 2008

Thanks to my guinea pigs at Regional AE Conference for sitting through my first-ever presentation on effective uses of social media in associations. As promised, here are the handouts from the session. And following are the slides, if you’d like to review them. | View | Upload your own And if you’re just dying to […]

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Nice slideshare presentation on social media and Gen Y

July 11, 2008

It’s a little over-the-top in some places, and (as you can tell from the title) a bit edgy, but this is one of the best slide shows about the value of social media I’ve ever seen. h/t Lani. | View | Upload your own Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive You’re reading Certified […]

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Note to prospective affinity partners

July 11, 2008

Yesterday I received a nice hand addressed envelope from a prospective affinity partner. Seeing that it was addressed in ink, and not by lasers, naturally I opened it. There was a nice hand-signed letter from a nice sales manager stating that he would be in attendance at an upcoming conference we were both planning to […]

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Thanks for the embed code, ASAE!

July 10, 2008

This week in associations is back. You can watch it here on my blog, thanks to the staff’s efforts to deploy Brightcove’s embed feature, or at Acronym. This week’s episode features Peter O’Neill and his take on the Decision to Volunteer study. Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive You’re reading Certified Association Executive […]

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Break up the routine with unfamiliar territory

July 9, 2008

On my morning jogs, I notice that I slow down and get exhausted in the same spots every day. I can’t vary my route in my neighborhood all that much, and so the same hills watch me huff and puff virtually every day. But when I jog in unfamiliar territory, I don’t have this problem. […]

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Announcing the Association BloggerCon Facial Hair Challenge!

July 3, 2008

Okay, let’s have some fun. With J-Nott getting in touch with his inner street thug and sprouting a goatee recently, I’ve come up with a fun activity. Gentlemen, show up at the Fourth Annual Association Bloggercon at ASAE & The Center’s Annual Meeting on Sunday, August 17 sporting a moustache, goatee, chin fuzz, or full […]

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Find me in Associations Now

July 2, 2008

One chapter in the story of how the Virginia Association of REALTORS’ social media initiative came to be is included in this month’s Associations Now magazine. Get to know two of my favorite VAR members, Frank and Daniel, and see how putting emphasis on the “social” part of “social media” helped us build our online […]

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McKinley’s Blog Watchdog June 2008: The Facebook Edition

July 2, 2008

Welcome to Blog Watchdog June 2008, the Facebook edition. You can get this column and others from McKinley Marketing’s expert consultants by subscribing to their monthly newsletter. As always, the full disclosure: I’m a paid freelance writer for McKinley Marketing. Facebook is the sixth most-trafficked website in the world. There are 80 million Facebook users. […]

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There is no such thing as a self-forming group

July 2, 2008

I’m trying to finish up my promised prediction, but in the process of so doing, I’ve been marinating a deep thought or two and felt it necessary to make this statement: There is no such thing as a self-forming group. Self-forming groups get talked about quite a lot in association circles, but the fact of […]

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I took the Association Social Technology survey, did you?

June 30, 2008

Only a few hours left to take the survey. Just head over to www.SocialTechSurvey.org to participate. 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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