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Highlights from the chat...

 

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For the October 1st edition of Association Chat, we will discuss the review we all love to hate...the performance review. What works, what doesn't, how to make the best of it, tales of love and hate, and everything else with a splash of awesome.

Bring your pain, fame, and insight to #assnchat via Twitter on Tuesday, October 1, 2011. 

The Asscoiation Chat topic for October 25th is Associations and Professional Development. Join in the discussion on Twitter at 2 pm ET.

Some sample questions for the chat:

[Host](Q1) How important is professional dev support to your happiness at work/decision on employer? Why?

[Host](Q2) Do you believe members of associations are now expecting more in the ways of education from their association membership? Why/Why not?

[Host](Q3) What kind of professional development opportunities do you need/want? Why?

[Host](Q4) How much do you estimate your yearly *desired* professional development ops would cost? Would they be the same each year?

[Host](Q5) Does your org provide professional dev support to staff? If so, do you use it? Why/Why not?

What are your questions? :) Talk with you at the chat!

What are your questions about associations and blogging? Swing by Twitter Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 2 pm ET and participate in the week's Association Chat!

Maybe you want to know the following:

• Does your org have a blog or want to have a blog? Why/Why not?
• Do you need a blog? Why/Why not?
• What about podcasts and web shows?
• Where do you find your content?
• What blogging platform tools and platforms do you use?
• Who manages the blog? Who writes for the blog?
• Does anyone need to review the blog before posts go live? Who?
• What is your plan for making sure fresh content is posted to the blog regularly?

Send your questions or ideas to KiKi L'Italien at @kikilitalien on Twitter or klitalien@delcor.com. 

What issues will you want to discuss?

• Nepotism?
• Staff/Member/Client relationships?
• Financial issues?

Please join in today's discussion and share your insights, thoughts, and questions!

 

It wasn't that big of a deal, she reasoned with herself. Everyone makes mistakes. 

Still, it wasn't the coolest thing in the world to have tweeted that the ACME Association of Associations (AAA) president had issued a, "pubic request for excited volunteers."

Today's Association Chat is all about the social media horror stories we've heard about, dealt with, and imagined. No matter how large or small, every size and type of business has encountered social media mistakes and handled them with varying degrees of success.

Our questions:

Q1. What is the worst social media gaffe/horror story you've heard of?

Q2. Is your organization prepared to handle a social media crisis? Why/Why not?

Q3. Who is ultimately responsible for a social media crisis at your organization?

Q4. How should organizations prepare themselves for social media problems?

Q5. True confessions: What is the worst social media crime you or a staff member has committed in present/past? 

This should be a fun chat...join in the conversation at 2 pm ET!

 

Full transcript of the chat here (courtesy of @adriennebryant): http://www.tweetdoc.org/View/9587/3-1-11-Associaton-Chat

What are your questions about tracking/measuring/and benchmarking?

Some possible questions (feel free to add your own):

1. How are associations tracking member social media information in their databases? Are they tracking it? What are they tracking? How might they do it better? (This question was inspired by Ben Martin.)
2. What tools offer you the best way to monitor social media? Member/volunteer activity?
3. What kind of tracking/measuring/and benchmarking struggles are you facing now? What are you struggling with?
4. What common tracking/measuring/benchmarking requests or tasks are pointless, need to be done away with?
5. If you could hire one FTE to only monitor and track one thing, what would it be?

Please add your questions!

[Today's Association Chat will focus on Measuring, Tracking, and Benchmarking - Tools & Techniques. Join us at 2 pm ET! #assnchat]

 

Today's Association Chat (#assnchat) on Twitter is taking place at the same time as I give a presentation to the ASAE Tech Conference in DC. The topic for both will be: Social Media Monitoring for Associations.

I am scheduling questions and will dip in real-time to add comments from the presentation and to share your responses with the audience.

My partners in crime, Lynn Morton and Peter Hutchins will be co-presenting and helping steer the discussion.

Tune in on twitter at 2 pm ET (the live presentation begins at 2:30 pm) and be a part of the fun!

Don't miss tomorrow's Association Chat on Stewardship in Associations!

Jeffrey Cufaude wrote a challenging blog post for Acronym, titled, "Bookblogging: Creativity or Stewardship?" that I thought would make for an interesting discussion this week for the association community.

What if we don't really need more good ideas or newer technology? What if what we really need is fortitude and the ability to follow through on the good ideas we already know we have. What if stewardship is our challenge?

I hope everyone will be able to participate tomorrow...it should be a good chat!

2.07 #assnchat, 2 pm ET, "Stewardship in Associations" - inspired by @jcufaude post on Acronym @asaecenter http://bit.ly/hm6WFF