Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

&# That’s the question I was recently asked by a colleague working on a project where they had just deployed an internal wiki. They said, “that’s what we want!&# They installed a wiki. And they waited… They soon discovered that their users weren’t actually, you know, using the wiki.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Five years ago, when I joined my company, the only mentions of the terms “wikis&# and “blogs&# were usually preceded by the words “What the hell is a…&# Now, as with most organizations, there is an enormous demand for social media, both internally among my colleagues, and externally with my clients.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Five years ago, when I joined my company, the only mentions of the terms “wikis&# and “blogs&# were usually preceded by the words “What the hell is a…&# Now, as with most organizations, there is an enormous demand for social media, both internally among my colleagues, and externally with my clients.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Think of it like an IM platform where every IM you send is open to everyone else in the network. By using a platform instead of a channel, you can take advantage of the knowledge that exists in your organization without needing to have that personal connection with everyone. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2010

Wed, May 26, 2010 Government 2.0 , Prof. Expo 2010 (I couldn’t possibly do any better than Alex’s fantastic wrap-up post here anyway), I’ll take a more focused view and discuss one issue that really struck me. applications, platforms, products and training program. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 1, 2010

Development Social Media Grading Social Media Mon, Mar 1, 2010 Prof. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Blogroll Andrea DiMaio Andrew Wilson's Posterous BlogWrite for CEOs Business As I See It Buzz Bin Chris Brogan Clay Shirky Common Craft Corporate Hallucinations Digiphile Dion Hinchcliffe DorobekINSIDER Enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

panel was held to try to answer some of the most common questions and to build support of our internal social media platform among the middle management. tools, with over 20,000 users across local councils in England, Wales and Scotland participating in over 500 communities of practice in the IDeA CoP Platform (www.communities.idea.gov.uk).

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 21, 2010

Fresh Thu, Jan 21, 2010 Government 2.0 Heroes series to videos, books, and a whole host of RSS feeds, Luke has created a platform that offers value to anyone involved in Gov 2.0, web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

Development Social Media Social Media Integration in Higher Education Wed, Aug 18, 2010 Miscellaneous , Personal The following is a guest post by Jen Dryer , a current student at the University of Southern Indiana. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with StudentForce, although I do work with the platform, Salesforce.com. Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Similar to the Apps for America contests made possible by sites like data.gov , why can’t one of the sports leagues partner with the Elias Sports Bureau to open up the MASSIVE amount of sports statistics on an accessible platform and then engage the sports-loving public to create web-based, iPhone, JAVA, and other applications?

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Two months ago, my company officially deployed a platform of social media applications behind our firewall, including tools like blogs, forums, a wiki, social bookmarking, and social networking. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! FASTForward FedScoop Governing People Government 2.0 Powered by Wordpress.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 26, 2009

Show them how they can use their organization’s internal blogs, wiki, bookmarks, etc. You now have a platform with which you can demonstrate your skills and expertise and create your own opportunities. Once we deployed internal blogs, a wiki, and forums, that’s when my work internally with social media really took off.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 2, 2009

Show them an example where a wiki has been used to eliminate 43 MS Word versions of a white paper or some other document. platforms means that inept managers can no longer pretend to know what they are talking about. platforms means that inept managers can no longer pretend to know what they are talking about.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Development Social Media Try Looking Outside to Solve the Problems Inside Tue, Feb 9, 2010 Best Practices , Social Media Quick – who recently said this in reference to his organization’s social media efforts? link] links for 2010-02-10 | Don't mind Rick [.] web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 1, 2009

From setting up the wiki to coordinating the budget to answering attendee questions, they created the platform for everyone to put on a successful event. What I’d Like to See Next Year The wiki. Camp when I sent them the link to the wiki. Camp when I sent them the link to the wiki. Better live-blogging.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Behind the firewall, the government is using things like MediaWiki and WordPress to power the Intelligence Community’s wiki and blogging platform. Behind the firewall, the government is using things like MediaWiki and WordPress to power the Intelligence Community’s wiki and blogging platform.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Understanding this dynamic, DHS teamed with the National Association of Public Administration to develop a collaborative platform to both recognize and leverage the interdependent relationships between the DHS and all its stakeholders. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! FASTForward FedScoop Governing People Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

I have to post my code to a wiki? For senior leadership - “What happens when people start using these platforms to just complain about everything? I can see their blog postings, their wiki edits, their bookmarks, and their skillset. I don’t like speaking out, and really enjoy just coding and sticking to myself.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The second group is the Senior Executive - For Senior Executives - “What happens when people start using these platforms to just complain about everything? web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! web20 wiki Meta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org © 2010 Social Media Strategery.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Basically, GovDelivery is the #1 Government to citizen collaboration platform – think email, text messages, those cool gov’t widgets, etc. I think of GovLoop as a platform – a place for government employees and contractors to connect on any topic – whether it is acquisitions, cycling, technology, or HR.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

We may use them differently, they may enable us to reach more people more cheaply, new people may be the influencers on these platforms. We may use them differently, they may enable us to reach more people more cheaply, new people may be the influencers on these platforms. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 22, 2009

It’s needs to be offline and online, with the online portion being the platform that expedites and adds meaning to the offline engagement. It’s needs to be offline and online, with the online portion being the platform that expedites and adds meaning to the offline engagement. And, I agree Steve, must we attach a 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 19, 2009

What blogging platform should they use and how often should they blog? web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! web20 wiki Meta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org © 2010 Social Media Strategery. Everyone was looking for some sort of guidance that would answer these questions.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Use email less (internally) – One thing I’ve realized is that if I keep answering people’s emails, people will continue to send them to me, even if I explicitly tell them that they’re more likely to get a hold of me by posting their question/comment to my internal blog, contact me on Yammer, use my internal wiki page, etc.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Read other people’s blog posts, wiki edits, forum questions, and tweets and help out if you can – even if it’s just sending a helpful link, providing a good point of contact, or giving a restaurant suggestion to someone in a different city. is thinking about government as a platform.&# can be about the platform.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2009

You are deliberate and entrepreneurial and have developed a piece of software, a platform, or a website that is meant to help the government, but is ultimately meant to make you or your organization money. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Salesman - Rather than jumping right into the Government 2.0 Powered by Wordpress.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 25, 2010

Mon, Jul 26, 2010 Government 2.0 , Personal I finally got around to reading “ The Last Lecture &# by Randy Pausch. than any new policy, memo, or technology platform could ever do. being citizen-centric, but that’s not going to happen via some technology platform or memo. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 11, 2010

Sun, Jul 11, 2010 Enterprise 2.0 , Government 2.0 , Social Media I recently came across this funny (and too true) post by Todd Heim on social media villains that piqued both my long-time interest in super-heroes and super-villains and all things Government 2.0 Weaknesses: Open Platforms. Radio Hot Links – July 12, 2010 | Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Mon, Nov 10, 2008 Social Media Image courtesy of Flickr user Douglas Staas As I sat down the other night to write another blog posting for my company’s internal social media platform, I thought to myself what would happen if I were to stop. I quickly showed them the wiki page with the info on it and everything was done.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Blogroll Andrea DiMaio Andrew Wilson's Posterous BlogWrite for CEOs Business As I See It Buzz Bin Chris Brogan Clay Shirky Common Craft Corporate Hallucinations Digiphile Dion Hinchcliffe DorobekINSIDER Enterprise 2.0 FASTForward FedScoop Governing People Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 7, 2010

is, But They Do Need to Experience It Mon, Mar 8, 2010 Government 2.0 “Dear U.S. There have been a multitude of new policies , conferences , guidelines , platforms , and even awards for things related to something called Government 2.0 web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! and Open Government. and Open Government.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 2, 2010

Guide Fri, Apr 2, 2010 Best Of , Government 2.0 , Prof. I define it as “the strategic use of technology to transform our government into a platform that is participatory, collaborative, and transparent” but that’s just one definition – there are a LOT more. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0 Expo Gov 2.0

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Viper Chill

MAY 10, 2010

Some posts on Mashable are large in-depth guides to social media platforms while others are just posts with embedded Youtube videos. Reply Glen says: May 10, 2010 at 11:30 am Hi Mars, I think you missed the point of the post. Reply Satya Prakash says: May 16, 2010 at 1:51 pm True! They are something else but not blog.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Instead of marketing your social media capabilities, skills, experience, platforms, software, etc. Because blog posts allow you to get the information out onto a platform and out of your email. Because blog posts allow you to get the information out onto a platform and out of your email. Powered by Wordpress.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 21, 2009

Instead, they were faced (at least for a while) with the prospect of thousands of really fearful citizens, all armed with their own mini-platforms to broadcast their fears — which may cost it dearly in the long term.” Social media can then give whatever translation comes from this a solid platform to disperse better information.

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