Last week Facebook launched three new enhancements. You can now Back-up Your Facebook Information, monitor your applications from the New Applications Dashboard, and create New Groups with enhanced functionality. This post will complete this trifecta by giving you my perspective on the new groups.
New Group Features
All of the Facebook groups in existence prior to this update are grandfathered - meaning they will operate exactly as they always have. The new groups provide new features tha...
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Long before we thought about launching Engage365 in December of 2010, we consulted with Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant (of SocialFish) to provide insights and guidance to our new community. It took us a year to really learn that these two ladies were the right people to help guide us. It was their ability to demonstrate their experiences with associations, online communities, relationships and social technologies.
While we focused on growing Engage365, they have focused their energies on writing their book, “Open C...
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That was the topic of a lengthy conversation on the ASAE & The Center Executive Management listserver this past week. It revealed the usual concerns: it's a waste of time, I don't want to know what you had for lunch, I'm overloaded with communication as it is. But I was also pleased that so many people posted positively about it. That wouldn't have happened just a few months ago, it seems. But I wanted to weigh in at the beginning, particularly about the whole "lunch" thing, so I wrote:
I think others have made ...
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In my role at Association Headquarters I often assist our client partners in developing strategies to implement social media into their communication plans. Shortly after seeing David Nour map out a communication plan during ASAE 2009, and after several conversations with Maddie Grant from Social Fish, (who I am eternally grateful to) I got to work.
With the help of two of my colleagues, Elizabeth Cies and Mark Denato, I came up with the following illustration to help explain social media and its place within non-...
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