Monthly Archives: July 2009

10 Tips For Managing Twitter As Your Usage Increases

Tweet Recently, I had a guest post on The Blog Of Mr. Tweet called 10 Tips For Managing Twitter As Your Usage Increases. A recent MarketingProfs poll showed that more than eight in 10 Twitter users, most of whom represent small business, expect their company’s use of Twitter to increase in the next six months….

Nostalgia And Old School Thinking Compromise Today

Tweet Several weeks ago, a person commented on another blog that I had an obscure blog. What exactly did she mean? I wasn’t really sure, so I turned to a web dictionary. Obscure: indistinct; indistinctly heard; faint; far from centers of human population; out of sight; hidden; not readily noticed or seen; inconspicuous This woman…

What Are You Becoming?

Tweet Brian Birch asks an interesting question on ASAE & The Center’s Acronym Blog: Who are we really, as association professionals? If you work for a nonprofit association as I do, I suggest that you read his post and the replies. Here’s how I responded to “Who are we really, as association professionals?” I could…

Craving Connections, Engineering Randomness & Accelerating Serendipity

Tweet This past spring, Steffan Antonas, a compadre of mine, wrote a great blog post Encouraging Randomness and Accelerating Serendipity. Steffan discussing the Twitter and blogging culture You should really take a moment and read Steffan’s entire blog post and leave him a comment too. Go ahead, I’ll wait here while you read and comment…

What If Association Meetings Became Open Source? 10 Tips For Planning A Living Conference

Tweet What if your professional association offered an open source meeting? What if association leaders redesigned the organization so that the focus was on social systems and morphing into Association 2.0? What if conference planners decided to adopt underlying principles of Web 2.0 to create Conference 2.0? What if your professional association embraced the following…