Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 23, 2012

As CIOs and Chief Knowledge Officers bring tools that have been used on the Internet – blogs, wikis, microblogs, profiles – behind the firewall, they tend to expect the same results. "We'll The Intranet development team. You create a wiki page for your team containing the text of a report you're working on.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

This isn't done just to make you feel better, but because teams function a lot more smoothly when everyone feels like they're contributions matter. "I'm If you're the boss and someone on your team messes up, your first inclination to should be to look internally – it's your team. And guess what?

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Do you know why you’re spending time writing that blog post? I could start this blog even though my boss at the time didn’t see the value in it. social media has become more and more integrated into our business, and some of my most talented team members have been promoted into positions with more responsibilities.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 12, 2009

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Development , Social Media On July 9th, 2009, my Strategic Communications team here at Booz Allen held an unconference as an alternative to the traditional All-Hands meeting. We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 23, 2011

The problem is that most open government initiatives have been stood up and led by separate teams – the social media office, the New Media Director, the Open Government Team – rather than by existing functions within the enterprise.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 22, 2013

If the books and blogs you’re reading for your PR or marketing class start to sound too much like late night infomercials extolling get-rich quick schemes, here’s are some resources I’d recommend sharing with your professor and classmates this semester. Read Olivier’s blog and book.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Do the folks at WordPress use Blogger to host their personal blogs? Out of everyone, shouldn’t the development team, at least, be the biggest advocates of the very software they’re implementing? The team responsible for increasing awareness of your Enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 3, 2014

Will he blog about it too? The blog content you’re publishing is relevant, valuable, and engaging yet no one is reading it. How segregated are their advertising and editorial teams? That reporter at the New York Times just called and said he’s doing a story on your brand! Is your brand willing to retweet his story?

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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. After all, you’re the advocate for the community, not a mouthpiece for the development team.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2012

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. I particularly like it because it illustrates the period many organizations find themselves in when trying to integrate social media internally. It doesn't work like that.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 11, 2012

This week I'll be moving to Chicago and then on March 19th, I'll be joining Cramer-Krasselt's PR team as a Vice President, Management Supervisor. Seeing them progress in their careers, get promoted, win awards and develop their own teams is one of the things I’m probably most proud of.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 25, 2010

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Community Blog. Community Blog. When was the last time: Image courtesy of Flickr user Search Engine People Blog Someone spent their own money to purchase promotional items to help build awareness and get more people to participate? Government 2.0 The Whole. : The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 21, 2009

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 I’m getting more requests from people outside of my immediate social media team asking how they can get more up to speed with social media so that they don’t always have to come to us for help. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof. The Whole. : The Whole.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 I’ve always been a huge sports fan and used to work in public relations for a minor league hockey team , so I was extremely excited for this opportunity. Sports teams have too much gain from social media and too much to lose by not engaging – it’s a no-brainer to me.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 12, 2010

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 We needed to identify a way to make social media relevant across dozens of skillsets, markets, and teams across the firm. Participants not only understand the concepts, but are actively deploying these solutions within their project teams. Government 2.0 The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 24, 2011

As 2011 comes to a close, it's only natural (and for a blog, virtually mandatory) to reflect on the year that's passed. Since that first post more than three years ago until now, this blog has served as the foundation for everything I've done in creating and building the social media practice at Booz Allen.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 10, 2009

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Development Social Media An Interview with Blogger Bob From TSA’s Evolution of Security Blog Tue, Mar 10, 2009 Best Of , Government 2.0 Development Social Media An Interview with Blogger Bob From TSA’s Evolution of Security Blog Tue, Mar 10, 2009 Best Of , Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Social Media Strategery has been around for more than two years now – much much longer than I ever thought I would be able to keep this blogging thing up. So for everyone who reads this blog regularly – whether you’re a subscriber, reader, commenter, critic, colleague, or friend – thank you, thank you, thank you.

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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. Support their initiatives.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 29, 2012

A version of this post originally appeared on this blog last year. " Enjoy working in teams – Social media is "social" – you have to enjoy working with a diverse group of people. Are dedicated to building a scalable, sustainable team – People go on vacation. It's real-time baby.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 2, 2009

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 This is the third ( the first one addressed the junior employee , and the second addressed senior leadership ) of four blog posts tackling each of the demographics that I brought up in the original posts, one by one and illustrate how I handle the “social media is scary” line.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 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. Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 12, 2009

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 However, thanks to Booz Allen , I’ll be taking a much-needed two week break away from the hundreds of emails, tweets, Yams, blogs, white papers, and proposals that have slowly taken over so much of my free time. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof. You’ve earned it.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Well, upon discovering this, I said to myself that if the CIA, FBI, DNI, and other Intelligence agencies can use wikis and blogs to share classified information, there’s no reason why these applications can’t be used across the government. Government 2.0 briefings.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Well, upon discovering this, I said to myself that if the CIA, FBI, DNI, and other Intelligence agencies can use wikis and blogs to share classified information, there’s no reason why these applications can’t be used across the government. Government 2.0 briefings.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2010

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Kudos to Tim , Laurel , Mark , Suzanne , Jessica , Alex , and the rest of the O’Reilly team for pulling together another great event. For me, any and all success that I or my firm has had can be traced back to the work of my team. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 24, 2010

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 If you are able to make it down to the Convention Center, make sure you stop by the Booz Allen booth on the Expo floor and say hello to me or to one of the many members of our team who will be attending the Expo as well. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 In this week’s Washington Post , Leonsis discusses why the team is aggressively using social media to engage with their fans and the potential impact that social media can have on his team and on the sport. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof. Sound familiar?

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 1, 2010

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 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.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Let me explain – as I mentioned in one my earlier posts , I’m currently a consultant within the Strategic Communications team at Booz Allen. I blogged about the challenges the Obama administration might face in implementing Web 2.0 Government 2.0 What does this mean?

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 My hat’s off to our team out in Colorado Springs who helped make this project a success! My hat’s off to our team out in Colorado Springs who helped make this project a success! Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof. Check is out at [link] Happy New Year everyone.

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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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JULY 3, 2012

It's YOUR agency's name that may end up on a blog somewhere as an example of a bad pitch. One of the things I've told my teams over the years is that the best media pitch is usually pretty simple. It is YOUR name after all that will be tied to that pitch. Pitch fewer people but aim for a higher success rate.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 2, 2010

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 My first resolution was the always ever-popular “ blog more often.&# While I didn’t necessarily blog more often, I think I did something more important, and made my posts of higher quality. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Analysts are part of an integrated project team and engage in every aspect of our work, including project planning, primary and secondary research and analysis, and preparation and delivery of final recommendations. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This post originally appeared on PRSA Pittsburgh’s blog. . Creative Commons image from Flickr user Slackley. In this month’s Pittsburgh Magazine, there’s a story highlighting how millennials are literally and figuratively transforming my hometown. I want to show them that we’ve got some cool things up our sleeves too.

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