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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

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Development Social Media I Started a Blog But No One Cared Fri, Jan 8, 2010 Enterprise 2.0 Image Courtesy of Flickr user cogdogblog As many of you know, here at Booz Allen, we’ve got an internal suite of social media tools available on our Intranet – hello.bah.com. How do I get people to read the blog? Government 2.0

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How a New Communications Graduate Can Stand Out

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Rather than taking five bullets to tell me that you wrote press releases, managed social media sites, created media guides, and pitched media, tell me a story. How many social media sites did you manage? What types of content did you share? Then start a blog and talk about your thoughts on the industry.

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Drive for Show, Putt for Dough – a Lesson for Enterprise 2.0 Platforms

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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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Everyone’s on Facebook, Why Aren’t They on the Intranet Too?

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In the last several years we’ve seen a remarkable shift from blogs and discussion forums to instant update platforms like Twitter and Foursquare. Users don’t have a clear understanding of why using the site will help them. There are two parts to this: first, the content must be provided in an interesting manner.

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Social Media isn'ta Prerequisite for Open Government

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Sure, social media can help facilitate this transformation, but starting a blog or Twitter account is by no means a prerequisite. Generate a greater variety of content on your site and update it regularly. Add external links to your site – Some agencies still have policies that say that they cannot link to non.gov sites.

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

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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? Notice anything?

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A Community of Practice Is More Than a Website

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Nowhere in the definition above does it mention the words website , wiki, blog, or social network. Just because all of their communication and collaboration doesn’t happen to occur on your designated SharePoint site doesn’t mean that people aren’t already communicating and collaborating around a shared topic of interest.