Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

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. Sharepoint developers implement Sharepoint, yet they don’t use it to manage the implementation. platform haven’t even created profiles of themselves.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

If you think that the enterprise-wide wiki you’ve been pushing to install is going to change the culture of your organization, think again. That wiki is going to reflect the culture of your organization, not change it. Enable open and transparent communication! Use wikis to eliminate email!

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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? principles, and have made an impact on government and the citizens and communities it serves. guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

Why isn’t anyone editing the wiki pages?) These aren’t trivial questions – people take the time to create a blog post or add content to a wiki because of the promise of emergent collaboration. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. at least once a week. Cross-promote. Give people an action.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Communities. (57). TaxoCop Wiki. Cross, Andrew Parker, Rob Cross: The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations. Basically chaotic… By Dave Snowden. I like that! Dave Snowden had a very good post about his swings between chaos and order in his study.… Categories.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I think the most successful social media efforts are those that are driven by passionate people who love people and who truly want to change the way their organization operates, not by people with degrees, certificates, or titles. tools like blogs, social networking, wikis, etc. tools like blogs, social networking, wikis, etc.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 7, 2009

Become intimately familiar with your organization’s strategic plan and develop a briefing or write a white paper advocating why social media would help your organization. Camp, will you be able to say that you have: Sought out social media skeptics and opponents in your organization and engaged them?

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

The theory that everyone’s information had to be safeguarded from others’ nefarious schemes within their own organization dominated the traditional Intranet culture. Enter Intellipedia , the gold standard of wikis behind the firewall. Intelligence Community – not the general public. And why is that, you ask?

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

&# 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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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. I realized that the technology and the work didn’t mean anything unless I had a community, unless I connected to PEOPLE. Now, instead of highlighting the Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 17, 2010

Development , Social Media Image courtesy of Flickr user Percita Over the last three years, I’ve met a lot of people who are their organization’s social media evangelist, lead, POC, pioneer, ninja, guru, etc., bah , boozallen , champion , change management , cm , E20 , evangelist , organization , social media , spear , web 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

is about more than wikis, open data , Twitter , Web 2.0, So, for those who maybe might not be ready for social media, here are eight things you can do now that can help your organization become more open, and none involve social media: Update the content on your website a few times a week - And not just with more PDF downloads.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 12, 2009

Pre-Conference After receiving approval to move forward, we established our “home base&# – a wiki page on our Enterprise 2.0 About a month before the Unconference, we sent an email out to the team asking for people to propose potential topics via the wiki. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

It’s great that there’s a vibrant community of these experts (check my blogroll on the right for a list of these experts, all much more established than I) actively sharing ideas and experiences. I think I bring a unique perspective on the challenges that government agencies face in bringing social media to their organization.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 24, 2010

APAN has file sharing applications, wikis, blogs and calendaring tools to coordinate schedules. The system is designed to handle extremely secure communications, while also interacting with the general public and disaster relief workers and organizations. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 26, 2009

Our first group is the Junior Employee - For junior employees - “Yeah, that’s great that I can start a blog that everyone in the organization can read, but what will I say? Show them how they can use their organization’s internal blogs, wiki, bookmarks, etc. What if I disagree with something that my manager says?

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 12, 2010

You may have heard of the term “ reverse mentoring ”— an alternative method of learning where the seniors in an organization become the mentees and junior staff serving as the mentors. And lastly, what’s the next step to scaling this program to a massive organization? web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 27, 2010

community’s zeal for all things social media and online, 1/3 of Americans still don’t have access to broadband Internet , and even among those who do, less than 50% prefer to contact their government via online means, instead preferring the telephone, in-person contact, or writing a letter (!!). community?

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Fri, Oct 9, 2009 Government 2.0 “Dear [fill in your favorite sports team], You may think of me as a fan or as a ticket-holder now, but if you give me the chance, I’d gladly be a marketing specialist, brand ambassador, web developer, community organizer and data cruncher. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 2, 2009

He advocates for asynchronous communications and for engaging with the community when and where they are, rather than trying to get more comments or web traffic. He advocates for asynchronous communications and for engaging with the community when and where they are, rather than trying to get more comments or web traffic."

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I’m particularly excited to meet some of the notable bloggers that I’ve got on my blogroll as well as meeting some other new and upcoming bloggers too. guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

isn’t about the tools, but what those tools enable – it’s about more than just creating a blog and engaging in dialogue with the public, it’s about more than just creating a wiki that’s open to multiple government agencies, and it’s about more than just making data accessible to the public.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The sports community is a very insulated community – teams and leagues generally look inside the sports industry to hire their communications and marketing professionals, but maybe they should take a look at the Government 2.0 industry to find that next pool of communications talent and innovation.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

community, congratulate those of us on new career moves, and help connect potential candidates to new positions too. Analysts assist in coordinating, planning and facilitating joint meetings of Academy staff, our Panel members and client organizations. Maintains and executes organization’s social media strategy.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

For junior employees - “Yeah, that’s great that I can start a blog that everyone in the organization can read, but what will I say? I have to post my code to a wiki? I’ve got an MBA and have been with the organization for five years – why would I put my work out there for people to change and mess up?&#

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 17, 2010

#bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0 guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Using Facebook to organize your local PRSSA chapter is very different from using Facebook to invite your friends to a kegger. guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009 From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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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 want a compartmented enterprise-wide wiki for whatever reason, that’s fine – just don’t expect to realize all of the benefits that something like Intellipedia brings.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Community, have had an alternately successful and frustrating (but never boring) year. 2009 went from unbridled optimism to eager anticipation to a little dose of realism, but through it all, the community of people and the relationships that have been forged across agency lines continued to grow stronger.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If your organization already uses Instant Messaging, microblogging offers the potential to turn those one-on-one conversations into group collaboration. By using a platform instead of a channel, you can take advantage of the knowledge that exists in your organization without needing to have that personal connection with everyone.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009 From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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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? The government has a higher standard.&#

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Development Social Media Try Looking Outside to Solve the Problems Inside Tue, Feb 9, 2010 Best Practices , Social Media Quick – who recently said this in reference to his organization’s social media efforts? and social media communities have been telling our bosses and clients for years now? Sound familiar? discussion.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 3, 2009

#bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0 guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 19, 2010

When was the last time you just sat down and thought about your project/organization/contract/initiative and wondered? Do a Twitter search for your organization/brand and see what others are saying via steveradick.com [.] guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 21, 2010

community from 3,000 miles away? Even though we’re not a social network, I get lot of feedback on the sense of community it brings to the open gov, Gov 2.0 They’re different communities. community to know about GovFresh? guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof.

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