Monthly Archives: June 2009

Death By Association: Do Association Leaders Consider Social Media Their Competitor, Partner Or Neither?

Tweet On this week’s Twitter association chat #assnchat, Susan Kuhn Frost, @sweetSue, a small business owner, author and blogger who consults individuals, small businesses and organizations, and a former association executive, had an interesting response to moderator Robert Johnson, @rjohnston and me. Robert asked the group “How best to balance association use of base communities…

Twitter Search In Plain English: Common Craft Homerun Video Again!

Tweet Common Craft does it again. This time explaining Twitter Search, hashtags and trending topics with a simple video. As Common Craft says, “The video uses an metaphor of the small town of ‘Twitterville.’ The town has an election and the people use Twitter to track real-time news, a hashtag to organize discussions and trends…

My #FollowFriday 6/19/09 Video

Tweet Here are my ten Twitter #FollowFriday recommendations for June 19, 2009. Watch and enjoy. Beth Kanter @kanter – Great nonprofit and fundraising resource for associations, organizations and charities alike. She provides a wealth of content and information on how to integrate social media strategies through her blog and Twitter. Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can…

The Event Future So Bright I Gotta Use Touchscreens

Tweet Technology continues to make in-roads into events and conferences and change some of the ways event and meeting professionals interact and communicate with attendees. Here are three examples of current technology innovations showing up in meetings and events. Augmented Reality Recently my European meeting professional friend and social media event planner extraordinaire, Julius Solaris,…

Highlights From Social Media Strategy: Plug Into A New World for MPI’s CLC09

Tweet On June 13, I had the privilege of serving as a panelist on Social Media Strategy: Plugging Into A New World for MPI’s Chapter Leadership Conference 2009. Panelists included Sterling Raphael, Founder and CEO of NFiStudios, Alan Baptista, MPI’s Director of Community Development and Randy Crabtree, MPI’s Manager of Global Marketing. The workshop, offered…