Maddie Grant

About The Author

I am a classic Gen-X early adopter and also a big picture thinker; I like to always stay ahead of the curve. I was born in Bangkok but grew up in Washington DC and consider myself for all intents and purposes a true DC native. I have two kids and three black and white cats - my house is a total zoo, which is why I love being a digital nomad and work from anywhere. I change my hair a lot which is why my pic here may look nothing like others elsewhere.

December 18, 2009

Announcing the Engage365 Water Cooler Chat… W00t!

By Maddie Grant

Lindy and I at SocialFish are soooo excited to bring our famous Water Cooler chats back – through our lovely Engage365 community. We’ll be hosting these chats every Friday at 1 pm CST (next one is on 1/8/2010) and anyone is welcome to join. We like to talk about social media, events, social media at events, and really anything else you might have on your mind…

Join us at 1 pm Central every Friday! Come armed with your big questions or just come and hang out for an hour.

December 8, 2009

Are you ready to “Engage365″?

By Maddie Grant

Welcome to Engage365! Lindy Dreyer and I are your friendly SocialFishy community managers… and we can’t wait to show you around.

Just for starters, here are a few of my favorite articles…

Lindy’s take on What a Blogger Wants
Samuel Smith’s 26 Tips for Designing Great Webcasts & Webinars
Maggie McGary’s rant: Forget Twentysomethings; Let Carol Brady Teach You Social Media
Jeff Hurt’s exquisitely titled Is Social The New Conference Black & Are Attendee Lists The New Allure?
Chris Uschan’s very useful 5 Ways Associations are Using Video to Promote Events

November 11, 2009

What Social Media Means for the Way We Work

By Maddie Grant

This is a repost from the SocialFishing blog. This post originally appeared on 11/9/09.

Here are the slides from a presentation we did last week with Jamie Notter at ASAE’s Social Media Workshop.

What Social Media Means for the Way We Work

Social media tools are not only changing the way we do specific association management work such as member communications or marketing, they are also changing at a deeper level how we work on a daily basis. Internally, if done right, social media is fundamentally changing specific behaviors, processes, and organizational structures by breaking down hierarchies and silos. Externally, we find ourselves on a steep learning curve as we figure out how to operate in a world that blurs our personal and professional personas and demands that staff at all levels be empowered to speak for the organization. This session will help you understand the challenges social media will present to traditional ways of doing things in associations and how to effect that kind of change from the inside out.

October 21, 2009

10 Tips for Launching an Online Community

By Maddie Grant

I have had this post by Jeremiah Owyang on “How to Kick Start a Community” bookmarked for a couple of weeks, and I thought it might be useful to do my own version. I agree with Jeremiah’s points, although I would probably order them differently.

October 2, 2009

Water Cooler Chats

By Maddie Grant

<div><div><div><div> </div></div><a title=”Maddie Grant” href=”http://engage365.conferencespot.org/user_profiles/maddie-grant-cae” style=”width:36px; height:36px; overflow:hidden;”><img style=”width:36px; height:auto;” src=”http://cdn0.pathable.com/user_profiles/996009330/photo/small/1273266725.jpg” alt=”View Profile” /></a></div><div><div><div> </div></div><a title=”Christopher Uschan” href=”http://engage365.conferencespot.org/user_profiles/christopher-uschan” style=”width:36px; height:36px; overflow:hidden;”><img style=”width:36px; height:auto;” src=”http://cdn0.pathable.com/user_profiles/996012469/photo/small/1256166391.jpg” alt=”View Profile” /></a></div><p>Every Friday at 1pm ET</p><p><a href=”http://engage365.org/2010/02/water-cooler-chat-226/” title=”View Chat details and Archives”>#Engage365 Water Cooler Chat</a></p><hr style=”width:100%; visibility:hidden;display:block; clear:left; margin-bottom:.0001em;” /></div>