Marketing junkie, association geek, blogger on making social media work at a practical level.
I live in Washington, DC, but I grew up in Kent, Ohio. I left to attend the University of Michigan School of Music, much to my brother's dismay. He's a big Ohio State fan. Blech. Despite my degree in oboe, my small-town, Midwestern upbringing makes me very practical at heart. I'm enjoying life as a "dink" for now (dual-income, no kids), which gives me lots of time to work too much. I love my cat, and I still play oboe for the Washington Sinfonietta.
I’ve been thinking about community management a lot lately. In our role as consultants for SocialFish, Maddie and I have talked to hundreds of community managers about what they do, how they do it, and the why behind it all. Our latest consulting package for community managers drills down into what we’ve learned and how to apply it. Here are five quick lessons we’ve picked up along the way.
The Association Trends Social Media Report is out. We got the scoop.
It’s time for our quarterly recap of what we’ve been working on. Well, it’s February, so I guess I’m running a little behind, but who’s keeping track, right? So here’s the review of what we got up to in the fourth quarter of 2011. Better late than never. It was a good year.
Maddie Grant, CAE and Lindy Dreyer are strategic consultants at ICF Ironworks.
We also manage the SocialFish blog, the biggest industry social media blog for associations and nonprofits. We have regular bloggers writing for us on social strategy, implementation, social theory, social business and lots of other topics that interest us and push our industry forward. Every author's posts are their own, and none represent the views of ICF Ironworks or ICF International.
More on our consulting is here.
Happy reading.
Lindy Dreyer
lindy@socialfish.org
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Maddie Grant
maddie@socialfish.org
Follow @maddiegrant
Washington, DC
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