Social Media Strategery

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Enterprise 2.0 Success is About the Players, Not the Field

Social Media Strategery

Watch your local Pee-wee football team’s practice sometime and you’ll see a lot of dropped passes, missed tackles, and a whole host of other mistakes. Over the last few years, I’ve seen dozens of failed wikis, blogs, microblog platforms, forums, and idea management deployments, and I’m sure I’ll see many more.

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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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An Interview with Blogger Bob From TSA's Evolution of Security.

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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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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?

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Stop the Posturing About Government 2.0 and Do It Already

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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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Keeping Gov 2.0 Fresh

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Heroes series to videos, books, and a whole host of RSS feeds, Luke has created a platform that offers value to anyone involved in Gov 2.0, We’re working with more people on guest-blogging and creating serial content, whether it’s from in-the-trenches public servants to government solution providers to citizens with great ideas.

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Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite.

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What if you could screen new doctors by viewing past surgeries of theirs on YouTube or by reading their blogs? event we hosted with SMC-DC, a discusison about Google Health in particular came up. event we hosted with SMC-DC, a discusison about Google Health in particular came up. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!