by Jamie Notter | Nov 19, 2014 | Culture, Social Media
This is a guest post from Eric Lanke, the CEO of the National Fluid Power Association. This is the fifth in a series of posts he’s writing about how he, as a CEO, is building and sustaining an intentional culture in his organization, a national trade association. His...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 15, 2014 | Social Media
I am 47 years old, and I recognize that I am either in or headed to the “get off my lawn” stage of life. I find myself looking back at the old days more than I used to, and I frequently want to remind my teenage children that when I was growing up, I had...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 17, 2014 | Books and Reading, Social Media
This edition of the Friday quote is not from Humanize–it’s from Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web, by Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant. This book came out in 2010 (a lifetime ago in social media years), and...
by Jamie Notter | Jan 3, 2014 | Culture, Social Media
Guest Post, by Amanda Kaiser We are all inundated with messages about “new marketing.” Experts tell us to try the new marketing strategies because the old are dead. In fact, just about every marketing tactic is changing: Print versus web Traditional media versus...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 17, 2013 | Leadership, Learning, Social Media
Yesterday I commented on the number one frustration I hear from the non-users of social media (that it’s all about what people had for lunch). Today we’ll tackle another popular attack from a few years ago: that social media is dominated by amateurs. One...
by Jamie Notter | Dec 16, 2013 | Humanize, Leadership, Social Media
Remember the early days of Twitter, when nobody understood it? I was a fairly early adopter, and I remember that the number-one complaint I would hear from people who didn’t understand Twitter was that they really didn’t care what people had for lunch. To...