Social Media Strategery

JUNE 22, 2011

Their English is really horrible – I don’t want anyone else in the organization to know that my people are idiots.&# You could have the greatest tools in the world, but no blog or wiki is going to work if this is the culture in which it’s implemented. Assume this is about collaboration, being social - Enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 18, 2012

I then read " Enterprise Social Networks, Performance Reviews, and Company Culture ," on the Social Media Club DC blog that rightfully (and thankfully!) vendors should instead be focused on creating a transparent rewards system that encourages collaboration and communication. Communities don’t work like that.

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Klout Influencer Collaboration Social Networking 124

Social Media Strategery

APRIL 1, 2013

Fast Company just published another article discussing how customers are no longer satisfied just with good products and services or low prices – they want collaboration and conversation from brands. Somehow I don’t think these are the conversations consumers are looking for from brands.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 22, 2011

Take five minutes and do a quick search of your organization’s blogs, microblogs, wikis, and forums that are available behind your firewall – and then let me know what the most popular topics are. I can’t recall reading anyone’s blog that I can’t remember seeing you there in the first couple of replies. Community blog.

Communities 114

Communities Microblogging Web 2.0 Wiki 114

Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

holds a lot of promise: Increase collaboration! But in many of these social media implementations, I’ve come across a lot more people saying, “I have an internal blog but no one reads it,&# or “We have a wiki, but no one uses it!&# Those managers will forbid their staff from blogging. Enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

” She went on to say that instead of talking about social media, social business, building communities and why your organization needs to use blogs, wikis, and microblogging, you should be talking about increasing sales, increasing productivity, and cutting costs. Last night, while flying home from the Enterprise 2.0

Yammer 132

Yammer NewsGator SocialCast Web 2.0 132

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. And they had been wondering how to provide places for these government people to move from push communication to a real collaborative space to work together. Takes two seconds.

Gov 2.0 89

Gov 2.0 Collaboration Communities Web 2.0 89

Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

They identified a need to bring people people together in a collaborative environment. They researched the latest collaborative software. They issued memos to their users telling them that this collaborative tool that they’ve all been clamoring for is now available. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 8, 2011

When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. It’s very much like trying to teach someone to use a wiki for collaboration instead of using email.

Communities 137

Communities Wiki Yammer Forums 137

Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 30, 2011

implementation – be it a wiki, a blogging platform, discussion forums, microblogging, or Sharepoint – fail miserably because they forgot to focus on the fundamentals. vendor out there offers a similar set of features – blogging, microblogging, wiki functionality, profiles, tagging, search, etc. Everything looks great.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 7, 2009

Have you changed the culture of your organization from one that hoards information to one that openly shares and collaborates with each other? The event will highlight the projects exhibiting transparency, participation and collaboration in government. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! O’Reilly Media, Inc.

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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.

Gov 2.0 62

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

Gov 2.0 94

Gov 2.0 Sharepoint Web 2.0 Conference 94

Social Media Strategery

MAY 24, 2010

Pacific Command’s All-Partners Access Network (APAN), Booz Allen has long advocated the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration with all of our clients. APAN has file sharing applications, wikis, blogs and calendaring tools to coordinate schedules. From our work with the Military Health System to U.S.

Gov 2.0 77

Gov 2.0 Wiki Web 2.0 Forums 77

Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This post originally appeared on PRSA Pittsburgh’s blog. . Let’s collaborate and come together more often (virtually and physically) to learn from and push each other to do big things. Creative Commons image from Flickr user Slackley. Let’s commit to never saying “because that’s how things have been done before.”.

Communities 50

Communities Startup Energy Creative Commons 50

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. Higher quality posts? Greater engagement?

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 21, 2010

GovFresh was created last year by Luke Fretwell with the goal of inspiring government-citizen collaboration and build a more engaged democracy and is a great source for all things Gov 2.0. For citizens, I hope it makes them want to engage in a more creative, collaborative way with their government. at the local level to your Gov 2.0

Gov 2.0 89

Gov 2.0 Web 2.0 Forums Wiki 89

Social Media Strategery

APRIL 1, 2009

Most of the attendees were very much about cooperation, collaboration, and communication. Better live-blogging. We had hoped to capture all of the sessions’ notes via live-blogs on the Government 2.0 That is, without forgetting it’s all about the collaboration, sharing ideas, and learning new things.

Gov 2.0 92

Gov 2.0 Wiki Conference Hashtag 92

Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 12, 2008

I’ve worked with clients from across the government who are all seeing social media succeed in helping organizations communicate, collaborate, and share information better than they ever have. How big of a net should you cast when implementing a wiki or blogs behind your firewall? Where you draw the line?

Gov 2.0 76

Gov 2.0 Wiki Policies Consultant 76

Social Media Strategery

MAY 6, 2010

I just don’t see how talking about what you ate for dinner on your ‘blog’ is going to help us accomplish the mission.&# How do you measure the value of open collaboration? 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 htttp://www.scarf8.net

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Gov 2.0 Organization Social Media Forums 72

Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

“…if our consumers are younger, and they love video games, and they have shorter attention spans, and they love interactivity, and they love social media, and everyone blogs, and everyone’s on Facebook, why wouldn’t we put ourselves right in the middle of that?&# What social media or Government 2.0

Gov 2.0 94

Gov 2.0 Organization Sports Forums 94

Social Media Strategery

JUNE 15, 2010

community, the people who have helped me in my career, the people who made me believe that openness, transparency, and collaboration in government could be a reality. Without the following people, I can say that I probably wouldn’t be writing this blog post, working in my current position, or even living where I am today.

Gov 2.0 66

Gov 2.0 Wiki Web 2.0 Sports 66

Social Media Strategery

MARCH 3, 2011

I can see tons of potential for integrating this into classes to enable collaborative note-taking and enhance group projects; I can see clubs and sports teams using it to help coordinate meetings/work collaboratively, etc. For more information about SMCEDU, make sure you check out: SMCEDU’s Blog. SMCEDU on Ning.

Education 130

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Blog more often – I know, I know, this is always on everyone’s social media “to-do&# list. When I started this blog back in October, I had one goal – to give me an external “home base&# from which I could become a part of the social media and government conversation.

Gov 2.0 77

Gov 2.0 Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 77

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.

Gov 2.0 93

Gov 2.0 Social Media Conference Social Networking 93

Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Don Burke then discussed Intellipedia and how it has changed the way the Intelligence Community collaborates and shares information. If you allow walled gardens, if you allow sections to be closed off, you’ll never realize the collaboration and innovation that true openness allows. Burke: “We’ve taken a very viral approach.&#

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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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Gov 2.0 Meeting Yammer Wiki 85

Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Development Social Media Why Start Another Social Media Blog??? So, of course, I’m starting…a social media blog!!! On its face, I’ll admit that it is – what could I possibly offer you, my blog reader, that is unique? What content will this blog have that you won’t be find anywhere else? Government 2.0 What’s worked?

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Gov 2.0 WordPress Resources Wiki 50

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. And better customer service starts with listening to your customers. third) phase of the process?

Gov 2.0 83

Gov 2.0 Engagement Social Media Committee 83

Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 19, 2009

What blogging platform should they use and how often should they blog? How will you instill this culture of collaboration, transparency, and participation internally, among your employees so that this is standard operating procedure? Everyone was looking for some sort of guidance that would answer these questions. The Whole. :

Gov 2.0 66

Gov 2.0 Policies Web 2.0 Conference 66

Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

Do the folks at WordPress use Blogger to host their personal blogs? The guys installing your organization’s blogging software don’t realize that the “Add a Picture&# button doesn’t work because they don’t have blogs. Do the IT guys developing Windows 7 use Macs?

Gov 2.0 117

Gov 2.0 Tools Wiki Sharepoint 117

Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 9, 2009

Joshua Salmons stated it best in a recent blog post – “If the president left his travel agenda scheduling up to the Secret Service, he’d never leave the White House bunker (”Safer” is easier.). 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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Gov 2.0 Social Media MySpace Web 2.0 86

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 is about so much more than just Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube.

Gov 2.0 120

Gov 2.0 Social Media Review Web 2.0 120

Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Most of these individuals serve, in some fashion, as social media evangelists – they’re the ones leading the charge to get their organizations on Twitter, to start blogging, to start using new technology to really change how their organizations operate. Image Courtesy of Flickr User AndYaDontStop. Talk to other people.

Social Media 119

Social Media Yammer Wiki Policies 119

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?

Gov 2.0 50

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 17, 2009

For a little more on that concept, see our outgoing Deputy Administrator’s blog post: [link] [link] Jeffrey Levy Darn tootin’! For a little more on that concept, see our outgoing Deputy Administrator’s blog post: [link] [link] Top Social Media Posts This Week [.] Social Media Club DC Government 2.0

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Gov 2.0 Social Media Wiki Technorati 93

Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2010

I’m writing blogs – they’re trying to explain Twitter to a three-star general. Photo courtesy of James Duncan bah , blog , booz allen , boozallen , DC , Expo , g2e , g2s , gov20 , govloop , OReilly , Prof. .&# For me, any and all success that I or my firm has had can be traced back to the work of my team.

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Gov 2.0 Fashion Web 2.0 Committee 91