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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. Accept and embrace this fact now and your communities have a much better chance at succeeding. It doesn't work like that.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Taking Badges Further: I use incentives to reward influencers in my online communities in three ways: Points for repetitive, ongoing and countable activity. ENTERPRISE : contributing to an unpopular wiki subject, logging in before 9am, talking like a pirate on pirate day. note: today most community software has a spam removal system).

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Micro Persuasion: Three Little Tips for Capturing Info Bits Quickly

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Avatar Marketing. October 2007. September 2007. Categories. Across the Sound. Advergaming. Advertising. All-Blog Media Diet Experiment. Bloggerside Chats. Centers of Gravity. Citizen Journalism. Citizen Marketing. Customer Evangelism. Event Coverage. Free Advice. Handy Resources. Journalism. Shameless Promotion. Social Commerce. Television.

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Are You a Productive Reader? - Stepcase Lifehack

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Or keep a collection of chapter-by-chapter notes — maybe on a blog or wiki. Continue your discussions at Lifehack Community. Get your own Avatars at Gravatars. When you finish a book, write down a quick summary of the book, any quotes you highlighted or flagged, and what you learned from it. Talk about it. Monthly Pick.

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First Steps Toward Becoming a 21st Century Educator | always learning

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tools to develop professional learning communities for international school teachers, at an introductory level. These conferences utilize social networks like Ning, blogs, wikis, podcasts and vodcasts as a format for presenters to share their work. Create a free edublog to get your own comment avatar (and more!). Information.

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What's Your Government 2.0 Personality Type?

Social Media Strategery

community, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a ton of different people, all with different motivations, frustrations, and aspirations. You would do well to shift more of your energy away from selling your product and instead focus more on providing value to the community. Development Social Media What’s Your Government 2.0

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

Once you start getting more involved with the Twitter you will see that it is really a community of people that just want to give constant updates to people that are following them. Twitter Etiquette As any community will tell you, there are unspoken rules of etiquette that you should follow. Here are some of the onces I know of.

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