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How to Get People to Your Social Sites and Keep them Coming Back.

Saying It Social

Use signage to alert folks that you are on Twitter and Facebook, etc (side walk boards, window posters, window clings…) Nice, vibrant sign from Hy-Vee. QR Codes can be read by smartphone QR Code Scanner Applications. Another nice clean and to the point take away card from the YMCA of Central Bucks. Want to give it a try?

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wordpress Resources at siteground

Social Media Strategery

It’s great that there’s a vibrant community of these experts (check my blogroll on the right for a list of these experts, all much more established than I) actively sharing ideas and experiences. I will add you to my blogroll! I will add you to my blogroll! I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0 Lookin good.

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Will I See You at the Gov 2.0 Expo?

Social Media Strategery

APAN has file sharing applications, wikis, blogs and calendaring tools to coordinate schedules. The system also supports mobile applications and integrates public social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as sophisticated geospatial systems, such as Open Street, to create detailed maps of damaged areas.

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Is Enterprise 2.0 Learned From a Book or From Doing?

Social Media Strategery

strategy No hands-on application of the tools we were discussing Very little discussion of what’s worked/what hasn’t Day Two Before even arriving for Day Two, I was excited to find Hanns on Twitter that night, responding to our #aiim tweets from the first day. For me, there were two big takeaways from Day Two. 1) Enterprise 2.0

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

[link] john scardino i remember in my design course at penn state, my professor told us a story about a software application he was involved with building. the manager of the application decided to make a bold move: make the developers run the help desk too. it wasn’t permanent, but it did have a huge effect!

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Sports Can Learn a Few Things From Gov 2.0

Social Media Strategery

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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Implementing Social Media at Large Organizations

Social Media Strategery

Well, upon discovering this, I said to myself that if the CIA, FBI, DNI, and other Intelligence agencies can use wikis and blogs to share classified information, there’s no reason why these applications can’t be used across the government. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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