Year end meta data

December brings out the end-of-year stuff, and here's a post with some 2006 meta data for the Certified Association Executive blog. Watch this space for another post on my best-of's for posts from the rest of the association blogoclump.

Top post for the year:
13 Tips to Help You Pass the CAE Exam

Top referring blogs:
Acronym
Blogoclump
High Context
Nick's Book Blog
Church of the Customer

Top associations accessing this blog:
National Funeral Directors Association
American Society of Association Executives
American Society of Civil Engineers
Oncology Nursing Society
Florida Institute of CPAs

Highest number of page views in one day:
November 30, 2006 with 360 (day before CAE exam)

Top Search Terms:
Certified Association Executive
Ben Martin
CAE Certification
CAE Exam
CAE Blog

Top non-obvious search terms:
Pimp my Office (#15) - comes up #7 in Google
MySpace is Stupid (#36)
Ben Jovi (#41) - comes up #2 in Google
Leadership Hierarchy (#50)
Bad Taste in Mouth (#64)

Tagged: Association Management; Associations; CAE; Certified Association Executive

Just call me Ben Jovi

Been very busy up until Friday coordinating our annual leadership conference. Thursday night we had some great entertainment -- karaoke! Here's me doing Bon Jovi's Dead or Alive.

Pictures: Pimp my office & more workplace fun

Here are a few fun things being done around my office recently:

1. We have a "valet program" in the office where you "adopt" someone on staff and do things to celebrate their birthdays and employment anniversaries. I came in early one day last week to "pimp" the office door of the person I adopted, as in the MTV show Pimp my Ride. Here's a picture:
2. We also take time at staff meetings to recognize anniversaries, and supervisors are asked to brag on their staff during the recognition. In addition to my bragging, I wrote a haiku about my member outreach coordinator and read it at the staff meeting.

3. Our most recent management team meeting agenda contained the following item: Staff Nicknames. This is not because we're concerned about staff giving each other inappropriate nicknames. Far from it! We're hoping to get our entire team hooked up with a nickname. Mine is still up in the air, by the way. It's between Ben Jovi and She Bangs (it's a long story).

Web 2.0 & Social Media Experiment

Since my last week of blog posts reads a little like an Oprah interview with James Frey, I've decided to lighten up a little bit...

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I'm taking part in a panel discussion at next week's sold-out Technology Conference, sponsored by ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership (Tuesday, Jan 31 - Wednesday, Feb 1). My panel session is entitled Web 2.0: The Long Tail, Social Media and The Future of Associations, and I'd like to try to prove a point. The point I'd like to prove is that Web 2.0 and social media not only enable online participation, but also in-person interaction.

Here's where you come in.

If you're in this session (and I know some of you will be), request the microphone and say, "My question is for Mr. Martin. Ben, what is your favorite Bon Jovi song of all time?" For your trouble, I'll give you $20 on the spot, answer your question, tell the participants about this experiment and (if you want) feature you on the Certified Association Executive blog.

Don't let me down.