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December 18, 2009

Announcing the Engage365 Water Cooler Chat… W00t!

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 14, 2009

Just When You Think You Missed It!

by Tony Veroeven

It’s been a few weeks since our first webinar, “Social Media at Events.” We received great feedback, and many have asked for the slides. Here at Engage365, we love to go the extra mile, so instead I’m posting the recording plus the handouts! But here’s the catch… you have to be an Engage365 member to watch it.

Watch now! Check out the “Social Media at Events” recorded webinar. We used a Twitter Back Channel (#engage365) during the webinar. We captured the conversation as a “transcript“.

December 11, 2009

Keep Your Ear to the Web

by Serenity Knutson

“Can I tell you something you really need to know about for this story?” says Ben Martin, CAE, as soon as we say our hellos at the beginning of our phone call. “Are you familiar with the Sarah Lacy/Mark Zuckerberg fiasco?”

How could anyone forget? The incident, reported and recounted in blog posts innumerable, might carry the championship title for the all-time most disastrous conference keynote ever—at least from the backchannel point of view. The date: March 9, 2008. The place: South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) in Austin, TX. The contenders: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, journalist Sarah Lacy, and Twitter.

December 11, 2009

Is Twitter Serious?

by Jamie Notter

That was the topic of a lengthy conversation on the ASAE & The Center Executive Management listserver this past week. It revealed the usual concerns: it’s a waste of time, I don’t want to know what you had for lunch, I’m overloaded with communication as it is. But I was also pleased that so many people posted positively about it. That wouldn’t have happened just a few months ago, it seems. But I wanted to weigh in at the beginning, particularly about the whole “lunch” thing, so I wrote:

I think others have made the basic points about twitter–particularly the “try it before you judge it” message. I too thought it would be stupid when I first started using it (I felt the same way about blogs, but I couldn’t live without reading or writing blogs now). And thanks to Elizabeth for the props on the cable TV analogy.

But I do feel compelled to respond to the people who are somehow upset that their time is “wasted” by reading tweets about what people have for lunch, dinner, etc.

December 8, 2009