Social Media Strategery

JUNE 17, 2010

I often feel like I’m fighting a constant battle against FOMO and HOLI - there’s always another blog I should be reading or another event I should be attending. They’re the ones sharing the links, blogging about the topics, and speaking about the issues – find people you trust and respect and use them as your filter.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 12, 2009

In collaboration with Chris and a few other team members, we pitched the idea to our leadership as a low-cost, low-resource opportunity to network, collaborate on some of the tough issues facing our team, learn from other members of the team, and have an opportunity to get involved with the rest of the team beyond their individual project teams.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 27, 2010

While the issue of a digital divide when it comes to government-public communication is well-documented, it’s about more than just identifying non-digital means to reach out those without broadband access – it’s about providing a variety of means, both online and off, for everyone. .&# Despite the Government 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

News & Blogs. Pick a blog category. In its March/April 2008 issue , Technology Review has published a series of articles about the 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008. Think customers: The 1to1 Blog. New entries posted to Know Issues, Best Practices and Workarounds wiki. ZDNet Blogs. in Downloads.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 19, 2010

We have deadlines to meet, emails to write/respond to, projects to work on, management issues to take care of, errands to run, families to care for, and many many other things that we do on a daily basis. About external issues that could positively or negatively impact your work? Article original sur le blog de Steve Radick. [.]

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 1, 2010

If you’ve kept up with this blog , you know that I’m really interested in the intersection of social media and education, and my old Public Relations 101 professor now teaches in the USI communications department, so I’m particularly excited for this opportunity. Grading the use of social media was a non-issue.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

in the July/August issue of The Atlantic. In the current issue of Inside Knowledge magazine, editor Jerry Ash raises the same question that Chris Hearne brought up in this blog a few days ago : If virtual is so great, how come conferences are booming? In a World Replete with Virtual Experiences, Nothing Beats Face-to-Face.

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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

MAY 12, 2010

It afforded our leadership a time and place to sit and connect the dots regarding how they could harness these tools for existing and future issues. Guide Social Media and the Next Generation I Started a Blog But No One Cared The Public Doesnt Need to Know What Gov 2.0 web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

For junior employees - “Yeah, that’s great that I can start a blog that everyone in the organization can read, but what will I say? Now, you’re making me blog about my work? I have to post my code to a wiki? I can see their blog postings, their wiki edits, their bookmarks, and their skillset.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 17, 2009

That’s when it really hit home for me, that the present and future of social media within the government doesn’t lie with whom President Obama’s CTO will be, or what memos and directives the Obama administration will issue. Where do you stand on this issue? Where do you stand on this issue?

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Doing this will allow you to identify, track, and hopefully respond to, potential issues before they become full-scale problems. on our Social Media Investment team wiki page on our internal social media platform. on our Social Media Investment team wiki page on our internal social media platform. ″ del.icio.us

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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. While I had no issue with navigating the wiki, some of my colleagues struggled to understand the whole concept of the Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

If students are not even being educated on the current issues, we can’t expect to move on to bigger and better things. I would love to connect with you outside this blog, so feel free to contact me at any time: lauren.vargas@radian6.com. I could definitely see this being an issue in courses outside of communications.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

We’re already seeing it with Intellipedia , with change.gov , with the TSA’s blog – within virtually every government organization, social media is at least being discussed. Start a blog where you talk about it. They told anyone who would listen about the power of blogging. Meet with your boss about it.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

After all, we’re dealing with many of the same issues they are. to the Ballpark ([link to post]) – new blog post up now #gov20 #sportssocmed – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] govwiki (govwiki) Twitter Comment RT Taking Gov 2.0 industry to find that next pool of communications talent and innovation. The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 23, 2010

Who resolves that issue? We’ll be blogging internally about what we talk about. Meeting agendas and minutes will be posted to our internal wiki. We’ll be blogging internally about what we talk about. Meeting agendas and minutes will be posted to our internal wiki.&# Steel cage death match?

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Whether it’s the “old&# Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff tweeting, the “conservative&# Department of Justice blogging , or the “bureaucratic&# General Services Administration developing a website that asks the public to solve their problems, Gov 2.0 These issues are just now starting to be talked about and shared.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2010

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. I’m writing blogs – they’re trying to explain Twitter to a three-star general. To learn more about the failures in Gov 2.0.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

I’ve had clients ask “can you give me an Intellipedia for my organization?&# But, then they’ll say something like, “one of our requirements is that every page within the wiki needs to be access-controlled.&# I always point them back to that quote. Fritzson : “I don’t think it’s a generational issue at all…Web 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 22, 2008

I’ve seen Intellipedia , TSA’s Evolution of Security blog , DoDLive , the DoD’s Blogger’s Roundtable , FEMA’s YouTube channel , GovLoop , and many other examples of “Government 2.0.&# I’ve also seen plenty of failed blogs, dormant wikis, and other failed attempts at using social media.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 2, 2010

Read the Twenty Theses for Government 2.0 – if you’re interested in this world, read these basic tenets of how social media and the government works You’re not going to learn this stuff via books and blogs alone – you’re going to have to get your hands dirty and actually use these tools to interact with the people you’re trying to reach.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 12, 2008

From wikis in the Intelligence Community to internal blogs at IBM , many of my clients see these articles and want to use social media to realize these same benefits, but don’t know how to do it. How big of a net should you cast when implementing a wiki or blogs behind your firewall?

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Allen, recently discussed the need for the Coast Guard to start using social media like Facebook and blogs to improve communication amongst one another and with the public ( Read the full article over at MarineLink ). However, will the Coast Guard middle management buy into using blogs to communicate with the public and with each other?

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 19, 2009

What blogging platform should they use and how often should they blog? Other agencies are following suit and issuing their own policies and guidelines. guidance) is issued about the fuzzy stuff. guidance) is issued about the fuzzy stuff. That means it will be necessary to issue additional guidance (e.g.,

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I could call attention to government issues as an “objective” observer, but I wanted to affect positive change. I’m guessing this applies to at least four out of five people reading this blog, and my advice to you is that every organization is unique. However, I eventually got tired of being on the outside.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 26, 2009

Agencies and departments from across the government are jumping on board, starting their own blogs, creating YouTube channels, and tweeting their days away. Agencies and departments from across the government are jumping on board, starting their own blogs, creating YouTube channels, and tweeting their days away.

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The Way of the Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The only real difference was that rather than hanging out listening to music, or watching films etc when we hung out at home, much of the time was spent sat chatting and issuing instructions, suggestions, commentary and insults towards whoever was in control of the console/computer at the time.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 22, 2009

What if you could screen new doctors by viewing past surgeries of theirs on YouTube or by reading their blogs? there are several very valid issues, along with several perceived barriers. All very real issues, right? However, as much as some people would like us to believe, these issues are NOT barriers to Health 2.0.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Between this week and Brian Drake’s excellent blog post , I realized that we (the “Goverati&# ) are still very much in the honeymoon stage of Gov 2.0. It showed me people asking the tough questions , demanding more out of the community, and tackling some very polarizing legal issues. Allow me to explain. relationship.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 23, 2009

You start thinking things like, “If the intelligence community can collaborate on a wiki, then why isn’t every organization? If available, you’re one of the most active bloggers or wiki editors. Guide Social Media and the Next Generation I Started a Blog But No One Cared The Public Doesnt Need to Know What Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 10, 2009

Development Social Media An Interview with Blogger Bob From TSA’s Evolution of Security Blog Tue, Mar 10, 2009 Best Of , Government 2.0 When I first started “ Social Media Str ategery &# six months ago, on e of my inspirations was the TSA’s “ Evolution of Security &# blog. thing was possible after all.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 7, 2010

You people in DC sure are talking a good game – trotting out your iPhone apps , Twitter feeds , blogs , and wikis - and I suppose I should care about those things, but in reality, I haven’t got the slightest clue why any of that matters to me. Even if they need to learn about Twitter or read government blogs?

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2009

Laborer – You are the “do-er.&# You’re the foot soldier who’s drafting the social media policies, who’s gardening the internal wiki, and who’s developing the briefings, talking points, and speeches for the Rockstars. Thinker – You’re not on Twitter, nor do you maintain a blog.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Now, consider this blog post a public service announcement for all you consultants and contractors out there (including all you Booz Allen guys too!) – I don’t want you to become the next Gov 2.0 If someone comments on your blog, comment back. And that’s certainly what you want to accomplish in a blog post.

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