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Enterprise 2.0 Isn’t About Social Business, It’s Just About Business

Social Media Strategery

.” 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. If your goal this year was to bring Enterprise 2.0

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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

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. Before our VPs starting using Yammer to communicate with the workforce, we had groups of Android geeks and fitness gurus.I'm

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12 Cloud-Based Tools to Stay Productive | Justin Levy

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Yammer: We’re just deploying Yammer at New Marketing Labs but it is being used to keep our team connected so that we’re not constantly interrupting each other and so that we can stay in contact when we’re traveling. So far, it’s pretty awesome! A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blakes wings of excess.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

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.

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

Social Media Strategery

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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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

Pre-Conference After receiving approval to move forward, we established our “home base&# – a wiki page on our Enterprise 2.0 We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference. platform – hello.bah.com. enough to give the vibe that this was something different.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

&# 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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