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10 Things Associations Need to Know About Upcoming Changes to LinkedIn Groups
Remember when we were talking about LinkedIn removing the groups feature? Ok, make that “remember when I was wildly speculating about LinkedIn removing the groups feature?” Well, while I wasn’t...
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LinkedIn Groups’ Job Tab: No Longer Optional
It’s been a few weeks since I posted about the then-upcoming changes to LinkedIn Groups that are likely to have a profound impact on associations who use LinkedIn as the platform for their member...
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Blogging from the Higher Logic Super Forum
Even though community management is just a small part of my responsibilities as Communications & PR manager for a small staff association (SFPE, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers), if you...
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Association Community Management Palooza
It occurs to me every now and then that I have terrible timing for some things in life, mostly because patience is not one of my strong points. Career-wise, it’s been occurring to me a lot this past...
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Tips for Handling Graphic Design When You’re Not a Designer
A few months ago, Beth Brodovsky, a long-time Twitter friend made via trusty #assnchat, invited me to join her for her podcast Driving Participation to chat about the challenges of being a...
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Does Association Community Management Need Its Own Association?
What could be more meta than a conference for community managers to talk about community management? How about an association conference for association community managers to talk about managing...
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Will You Be at #Tech15 Next Week?
It’s that time of year again…no, not the holidays, but time for the ASAE Technology Conference & Expo. I’m excited to to heading there to see all my association friends, and of course, to be part...
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2015 Movie Recap
(Originally posted on Chic n’ Geek) Guess what time it is? Movie recap time! Have I really been at this for eight years now? Apparently yes. To the tune of a running total of 438 movies seen in the...
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To Blog or Not to Blog in the Age of Medium
More and more, blogging feels like speaking into an unplugged mic. Which is why I and countless others who used to love it and do it religiously have either stopped altogether or seem to be winding...
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Term Limits are Good for Association Volunteers. Why not for Staff?
So, my diatribe about Medium and how bloggers shouldn’t fall into the trap of believing that individual blogs are worthless and we should, instead of writing on sites we control, write–for free– for...
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Why Skipping LinkedIn is a Mistake for Association CEOs
So my husband subscribes to CEO Update, the most expensive old-school publication ever, which I find entertaining specifically for its old-schoolness. It arrives in all its black and white,...
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My 2016 Oscar Predictions
It’s the best day of the year if you’re a movie fanatic– the Oscars! It’s gorgeous out and I should be outside instead of inside writing this, so I won’t beat around the bush–here are my predictions...
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LinkedIn Shuts Moderator Group–Is the Same Coming for Groups?
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about LinkedIn Groups (or posted at all, really…) but leave it to the universe to cause me to have to break my dry spell on a holiday weekend Friday. So remember...
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Spring Fever and Changing it up on Mizz Information
Even I can hardly complain about this past winter because, aside from the 25″ of snow that one time, it wasn’t too bad, even by a winter-hater’s standards. Regardless, I’m glad it’s over and the world...
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Book Review: Disrupted by Dan Lyons. Spoiler: Read it.
Ever since I started reading buzz about Dan Lyons’ book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble, I couldn’t wait to read it. I mean, what’s not to like? Scandal. FBI involvement. People...
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The Top 5 Pain Points for Association Email Marketers–And How to Solve Them
Welcome to the first-ever guest post on Mizz Information! As a small-staff association marketing and communications professional, there is so much I need to learn, so and I figured as I look to...
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Social Media Tools and Resources for Social Learning
This past week I, together with my friend Shari Rager from American Medical Writers Association, did a session at Tagoras’s Learning*Technology*Design conference on designing for social learning. Of...
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Do You Give Your Product Away for Free? No? Then Please Don’t Ask Clients to...
I’ve been thinking about this post for a few months now but haven’t hit “publish” because I didn’t want to come off as ranty or negative or whatever. But let’s be honest…when has that ever stopped me...
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Association Blogging in 2016
Summer just sucks in terms of blogging…or doing much of anything, if you’re me. I don’t mean my summer has sucked; it hasn’t. But between conferences, work, getting ready to have two kids in college,...
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An Introvert’s Guide to ASAE Annual
This weekend, about a billion people (ok, not that many, but it feels like it if you’ve ever been in the midst of the throng that is ASAE’s Annual Meeting before) and I will descend on Salt Lake City...
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