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Unclogging Your Blog

January 16th, 2012 | Posted in Social Media and Business Trends

On a recent webinar, I heard a staggering statistic. Eighty-percent of companies (who start blogs) never post more than five blog entries. They give up. Abandon ship and simply leave the blog out there as a reminder of their own lack of follow-through, manpower and/or strategy.

What is so incapacitating about a blog? Is it lack of content or ideas? Is it lack of time to generate or flesh-out these ideas or is it simply something you try once like sky diving? Blogging doesn’t have to be reminiscent of an English class assignment. There are ways to spice up the “writing” of your blog; ways to put a different part of your brain on it. Blogs don’t always have to be about the words. The only rule for a blog is to keep your audience’s needs and wants in mind — that goes for creating content as well as media.

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Membership Management Software + Social Networking

December 6th, 2011 | Posted in Social Media and Business Trends

What’s the point of social networking for member-centric organizations? Isn’t it all just fluff and a waste of time?

In this social membership podcast David Sieg, vice president of strategic marketing for YourMembership.com, explains why having an integrated solution is essential to the success of your member organization and what role public online communities like Facebook play in your marketing strategy.

Download mp3 | Social Membership

Association Podcast: Episode 1

October 25th, 2011 | Posted in Social Media and Business Trends

Storytelling for Associations

Tune in for our monthly podcast on topics of interest to member-centric organizations.

Ever wondered how to hold your association blog audience? Make them a part of what’s going on and feel emotionally invested? Storytelling creates an emotional connection to the story, characters and your organizational mission (when done properly). This podcast features the importance of storytelling, beginning basics of storytelling and explains blogging versus digital storytelling. For more on the subject, check out our blog post about storytelling. 

 

Download MP3 | storytelling-for-associations

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