Big Changes at Socious – More Resources for Associations, Users Groups, and Nonprofits
Well you have probably noticed a few changes around here at Socious lately. Late last year we rebranded the company, we are no longer the men in black, we are the guys in green. We also have brought on a new Director of Marketing and Strategy that we will be announcing in the upcoming days....

An Online Community Can Learn A Lot From a Car Auction.
When you have an auction, you need cars (content), you need buyers (consumers of the content) and a medium to bring them together (the auction). Here are some points the car auctions know, that can help you in your online community....

Socious Presentation at American Society of Association Executives
If you are at the ASAE Technology Conference for the American Society of Association Executives, stop by and see Paul Schneider of Socious and Ted Simpson of the Higher Education Users Group give a presentation titled: Driving Growth: An Online Community Success Story...

Socious Article in ASAE Magazine
Well now I can say I am a published author, kind of. My article for ASAE Associations Now made it into the December 2010 edition. Good stuff! Here it is:...

Webinar Recording: Mobile 101 for Associations
If you missed our webinar Mobile 101 for Associations you can now view the recording here:

http://www.socious.com/10-minute-webinars.html...

Know Anyone? Socious is looking for a Director of Marketing
Socious is growing by leaps and bounds! So much so, we need some additional help around here to coordinate and manage our marketing efforts. Know anyone that would be a good fit? Let them know. The specifics are below: ...

Personalization-The Key to Engagement
We recently came out with our version 4.1. The theme behind that development effort was engagement. ...

Associations: Don't Fear Social Media Video
Here is a video we did as a marketing piece for Socious. If you like it, tweet it out for us. ...

Big Surprise! (Not Really) More People Using Mobile Phones!
There are some features that people want, where I would agree, for associations, they probably won't get a lot of use. Mobile, though, is not one of them....

We are Excited! Introducing mobile.community by Socious
Well after a lot of planning and work, we are proud to announce our mobile application mobile.community. I will have to say that this is a product we are really proud of. ...

Morgan Stanley Report on the Mobile Internet Industry
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) released "The Mobile Internet Report," on the trends and usage of the mobile internet industry. They had some interesting findings and predictions. ...

Attackers Moving to Social Networks For Command and Control
With the latest data from Marketing General stating that 75% of associations are on Facebook, 66% on Twitter and 59% on LinkedIn, these sites are embraced by the association industry. It is just an important reminder that not everyone out on these sites has the best intentions. ...

Online Communities Grow Organizations
Well hopefully that title got you to read this post. I know that this statement is true, but it is always nice to get validation from external resources to back me up. A few months ago, Marketing General came out with the 2010 Association Benchmark Survey. ...

ToolKit: 15 Ways to Engage Your Members in an Online Community
One reoccurring question we hear when launching an online community is ‘How do I engage my members.” The Socious tools have a lot of ‘hooks’ to help you do this, but there are things that you can do, regardless of what technology you are using, to engage members within your online community....

Association Online Communities - 4 Keys to Success
Here at Socious we have been refining our approach to building successful online communities since 2002 and we have seen what works and what doesn’t. The one constant we have seen with all successful online communities is having good content. ...

Bring Your Chapters Under Your Association's Online “Umbrella”
As an Avectra partner, I was asked to write a guest blog on the Avectra corporate blog. An excerpt from that blog is below:...

Introducing Socious Version 4
Here at Socious, we are happy to announce version 4 of our Online Knowledge Community Software. This new version is a culmination of months of work to change the overall navigation of our system and add some cool new features. ...

Going Mobile
There was a recent study from Ruder Finn revealed that Americans are spending nearly three hours per day on their mobile phones....

Introducing Socious Toolkits
In 2010, we are embarking on a new marketing initiative. With everyone else out there doing webinars that maybe have 5 min worth of good material, and discuss more of "What you should do" rather than "How to do it", we are offering our Socious Toolkits....

It is Good to Give Thanks
Amazing that Thanksgiving is already here. We should do it more often, but the great think about Thanksgiving is to remind you of, no matter how bad things may be, you have things to give thanks for....