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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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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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 13, 2009

For example, I volunteer with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (ypfp.org) and we’re always looking for volunteers to help design and implement our social media strategy. bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

You don’t have to wait until you hammer out a Twitter policy or get legal approval for your blogging guidelines to start this transformation.You don’t need to create all kinds of widgets and mashups with your data. If this is still a policy at your agency, show them this and get the policy changed.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 30, 2009

Dear Ma.gnolia Community Members or Visitor, Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service’s worst nightmare: data corruption and loss. Most importantly, I apologize to all of you who have made Ma.gnolia a home for your bookmarks and community. Jim’s last blog post.

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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

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

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

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. and non-profit 2.0 (for cross both lines.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. This is because CNN has mastered the art of sending updates about any news that comes across their desk. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. This is because CNN has mastered the art of sending updates about any news that comes across their desk. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 19, 2009

The Department of Defense is supposed to be releasing their social media policy in the next month or so. Other agencies are following suit and issuing their own policies and guidelines. link] Ari Herzog …so why praise these released policy documents if such is not the way to go? RT @cheeky_geeky: Government 2.0

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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. The Director, New Media and Web Communications has specific responsibility for training and guiding Department Web Managers and for overseeing implementation of web policies and procedures. Open until Feb.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Social media and government started not with some policy or memo from the senior leadership, but from regular people sitting in a cubicle who saw an opportunity and decided to do something about it. They eventually changed the policy. Becoming part of the community and collaborating is a huge piece of successful social media.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

iCommandant.com does have a comment policy that closely resembles that of the Official iCommandant website, with one exception “No Moderation.&# Comment Policy: We welcome your comments on postings at iCommandant.com. Comment Policy: We welcome your comments on postings at iCommandant.com. Powered by Wordpress.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 10, 2009

Legal also played a major part in crafting our comment policy. Therefore we coordinated a policy and Terms of Use between the Office of Chief Counsel and other TSA offices. But all in all, we’ve been able to make policy changes ( Black Diamond & Electronics in Bags ) and better train our work force. If so, what was it?

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Discussions on Day Two centered around the right balance of policies, rules, guidelines, and best practices for internal wikis; the risks of open vs. closed networks; and the need for open/transparent communication between IT and the user community. Powered by Wordpress. 1) Enterprise 2.0 Heroes At the Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

It’s about updating policies because of the conversations you had on the blog, it’s about using a wiki to deliver better intelligence analysis to our country’s decision makers, and it’s about opening up government data to crowdsource IT development , saving money increasing innovation. Powered by Wordpress.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 7, 2011

I make it clear that nothing is set in stone until I receive the executed agreement AND the advance, and there is a cancellation policy as well. What Ive started doing this year is making sure all my gigs are now agreed to in writing, with a formal contract, as well as with an advance (for those gigs that pay). Read All About It!

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 8, 2010

This is why so many social media initiatives fail – not because of technology or policy, but because of people. Not whether that’s the Chief Marketing Officer or the Director of Public Affairs or the Community Relations Lead, but actual names of people. Remember, social media is driven by the person, not the position.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 9, 2009

I know many IT professionals who are huge social media evangelists, and I know communicators who are terrified of losing control of the conversation. There are very real privacy, security, and policy barriers to social media implementation, and we must actively work with our IT counterparts to develop collaborative solutions.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Bookmark the blogs on my blogroll found to the right. Read the blogs that you find on those blogs’ blogrolls. Chances are, there will be some sort of policy against using some of these tools – you’re going to pick and choose your spots where you take a risk in using them. This is why Step 4 is so important.

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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. Or, should it also be open to other agencies like the FAA or other members of the Intel Community? Where you draw the line?

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 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 Powered by Wordpress. Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media My Gov 2.0 Heroes At the Gov 2.0 Expo – Who’s Making You Successful? Fresh News Theme by

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 25, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Etsy’s PR Nightmare: Greeting Cards Making Light Of Rape January 25th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Steff Metal [Update from Ed.: And why, once you’ve made said policies, you’ve gotta stick to them.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 29, 2011

Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Are you trying to create community? Or someone said you should so your considering it. But where do you start? Well, its an often overlooked question.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

As you might imagine, neither of these conclusions bode well for the long-term health of a virtual community behind the firewall. Will I get an opportunity to influence future policy? Lastly, be a community manager. I wanted to model the behavior that people could/should take when participating in that online community.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

What am I missing in my social media policy? We have a blog, Twitter account, podcasts, and other social media already, but no one is using them – what’s the best way to build more community? Powered by Wordpress. How do I involve our Legal department when I’m terrified they’re going to shut me down?

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

Make sure you give it every chance to succeed and address the people, policies, and processes too. To add on to your ideas, I would also suggest that organizations would do well to invest in community managers – those people who blog, garden wiki pages, and moderate forums as their primary job. Enterprise 2.0 Heroes At the Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 27, 2009

community (it’s not all that hard!): communities, both online AND offline. Get to know the mission and unique processes and policies of the people you’re talking to. Are some challenges exclusive to government that is not found in the private sector when it comes to communication and sharing information?

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2009

community, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a ton of different people, all with different motivations, frustrations, and aspirations. You would do well to shift more of your energy away from selling your product and instead focus more on providing value to the community. Development Social Media What’s Your Government 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community. I have blogrolled you. I’ve a new blog with WordPress and I’m trying to learn (by the seat of my pants) how to do things on my own.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 25, 2010

At the end of this chapter of the book, Randy tells the story of how he still serves as a consultant to Disney and at the end of his meetings, he ends by asking, “If I sent a child into one of your stores with a broken salt and pepper shaker today, would your policies allow your workers to be kind enough to replace it?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

To learn more about Platform, read our Privacy Policy and Platform Page.) Cheers, Sheldon, community manager for Sysomos ([link] Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)" your name and profile picture). Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)" Read All About It! These fine folk did: Jan.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 11, 2010

Through near constant talk of policies, regulations, and costs, The Downer calls attention to every possible reason why an idea can’t and won’t work, yet is unable to see the potential benefits. Powered by Wordpress. Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media My Gov 2.0 Heroes At the Gov 2.0 Fresh News Theme by

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