SocialFish

APRIL 20, 2011

About a month ago, Maddie shared this post about awesome B2B Facebook Pages with me and suggested I do a similar post about association Facebook Pages. So, without further ado, I give you these 5 awesome association Facebook Pages: American Dietetic Association –I especially like their “tip of the day&# posts–a great way to drive traffic back to their website.

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SocialFish

APRIL 21, 2011

Watch this quick video of Wendy Harman, Social Media Director of the American Red Cross, being interviewed by Kivi Leroux Miller about content curation for the Red Cross. More on the interview is on Kivi’s blog here. Wendy offers some great insider advice about her organization’s philosophy around content and who can speak for the Red Cross.

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Curation Organization Social Media Video 162

SocialFish

APRIL 18, 2011

Just a quick pointer to a “Meet the Author&# audio conference we did with NTEN last week. We hung out on the phone with Anna Richter from NTEN and chatted with interested folks about the background to and concepts in our book, Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web. Click here for the recording , which is free for NTEN members (not sure how much it is for non-members, but we can find out).

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Meeting Communities Conference Questions 145

SocialFish

APRIL 22, 2011

If you haven’t seen this amazing series by Shelly Alcorn of Association Subculture , please take some time this weekend to read it. Really really great stuff. Words Make Worlds – Part 1 – Association Management, Human Ecology and IPOD. Much of the corporate management theory co-opted and applied in the non-profit arena largely ignores the most profound difference between non-profit and for-profit enterprises – the shared leadership structure between volunteers and profes

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Committee Communities Buy Price 169