This is a leadership lesson from a spider. Stay with me. Throughout most of the summer, I’ve had a spider building a web on the driver’s side mirror of my car. While I’m not driving as much these days, I am still driving between 30 minutes to an hour a couple times per week. Each … More More than Talent: Career Success Takes Perseverance
Although things are improving, women continue to be underrepresented at every level in the workplace. A 2019 study by Women in the Workplace shows that women hold only 21 percent of C-Suite level positions and 38 percent of management positions. Much of this is due, of course, to bias, both conscious and unconscious, at every … More Mistakes Women Make in the Workplace That Hold Them Back
Early in 2011, the commercial director of Facebook in the U.K. predicted that, soon, we will no longer need our own websites. His rationale? Facebook will be so integrated into the web that businesses, even major companies with a huge web presence, will abandon their own website in favor of the social. Fast Foward. Social … More Yes! You Still Need a Website
One of the most challenging aspects of running social media for a large organization can be coordinating and facilitating communications between departments in the company. It’s easy for the social media manager to become siloed, or, if you don’t have buy-in from all departments, it can be difficult or impossible to get the information you … More How to Take Leadership of your Company’s Social Media Strategy
Words have power. The words you choose can either bring strength to your communication or dilute it, removing power and lessening the impact. Very often we choose, either deliberately or subconsciously, words that undermine our own messaging as a way to be “polite” or “less threatening.” Instead, we end up being taken less seriously, or … More Four Easy Ways to Improve Your Email Communications
Successful social media communities require strong leadership behind a careful, organized strategy. If you’ve decided to invest in a social media consultant, analyst, strategist, or anyone else with the word “social media” in their title, keep in mind these thoughts as you move forward with executing your plan. Choose the Right Person for your Social … More How to Work With a Social Media Manager
It’s 2020 and we are in the middle of a global pandemic, Covid-19. Offices, restaurants and bars, small businesses, anything deemed nonessential, is shut down. Everything in my social feeds, as well as the news broadcasts right now, is related to the virus. States are issuing stay-at-home orders, pushing people ever more toward their devices … More Marketing in Times of Crisis
As we wind down 2019, I, like always, resolve to read more in the coming year. If you’re looking to do the same, I’m sharing my own list of books I read, and recommend, in 2019 in no particular order. Note: I joined a ladies’ book club this past year, so many of the titles … More 2019 Book Recommendations
Since the most recent election, Facebook has strengthened the authorizations required to run ads for social issues, elections or political campaigns. The ultimate goal of these authorizations is to prove you are a citizen of the country in which the issue is being debated and that you are authorized to run ads on the page’s … More How to Get Authorized to Run Political Ads on Facebook
In a recent article by Vox about the acquisition of Tumbler by WordPress, I was surprised to learn that the experts interviewed feel that blogging for business and marketing, particularly on WordPress, is “quaint and “feels like 100 years ago.” Anil Dash, CEO of Glitch and one of the first employees of WordPress’s old-school blogging competitor LiveJournal, … More Is Blogging for Business and Marketing Still a Thing?
