Social Media Strategery

APRIL 27, 2010

Two in five Americans believe that the use of social media is a waste of government resources, although 3/4 believe this type of engagement makes government accessible. Focus on using Social Media as a tool to increase Government Capability to provide service, not as THE Means to provide service. Tim @Steve YES! The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The best thing that websites can do for engagement is to quickly let people do their business. Meeting people’s needs respects their time and builds confidence and trust–critical to meaningful engagement. The best thing that websites can do for engagement is to quickly let people do their business.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I’m not suggesting that general managers get on here and blog about player transactions or scouting strategies, but they could definitely share their ideas for promotions and community events, best practices for engaging with season ticket holders, or how they’re using social media – things that help the entire league.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

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. why isn’t anyone asking questions? Email is still king.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 24, 2009

This year, we developed and implemented their social media campaign, including all of the social media engagement described above as well. This year, we developed and implemented their social media campaign, including all of the social media engagement described above as well. The Whole. : Discount Timberland uk: cool.nice post.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 21, 2009

Sure, there will always be a need to call in the “experts&# – the people who live and breathe this stuff – but for the most part, every communications professional needs to understand social media and its place in the overall mix of communications strategies and tools. link] Jonathan Rick Couldn’t agree more, Steve.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Sports teams have too much gain from social media and too much to lose by not engaging – it’s a no-brainer to me. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 24, 2010

APAN has file sharing applications, wikis, blogs and calendaring tools to coordinate schedules. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0 The Whole. : Powered by Wordpress.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2010

GovFresh was created last year by Luke Fretwell with the goal of inspiring government-citizen collaboration and build a more engaged democracy and is a great source for all things Gov 2.0. For citizens, I hope it makes them want to engage in a more creative, collaborative way with their government. at the local level to your Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? Open until Jan. The Whole. : Powered by Wordpress.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Social media as an industry is changing rapidly – new tools, new resources, and new methods are always emerging. The best that you can hope for is to build a solid fundamental knowledge of the principles of social media and use the tools and relationships that you’ve built to stay on top of the latest trends.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

Or maybe we can follow the University of Kentucky, who recently combined their English Composition and Communication courses to create a more efficient way for students to engage in the classroom. Also, we need more vendors to partner with institutions to bring these tools into the classroom. The feedback was awesome. Lauren Vargas Sr.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Maybe Director, New Media and Citizen Engagement at GSA, Bev Godwin? 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. Try Ted Leonsis, owner of the Washington Capitals.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

Things I liked: The Speakers – it was great to see many of the social media heavy hitters out here in Vegas, talking and engaging with everyone. New Tools – At my job, I’m one of the more technically-advanced people there. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

I provided no solutions for how to approach these people and get them engaged. I provided no solutions for how to approach these people and get them engaged. link] Ari Herzog There is a reason why many liken social media engagement with diving into a swimming pool. link] sradick Rick – good point. It’s scary.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

What if he’s one of the readers of the blog that you’ve engaged? What social media brings is new TOOLs to existing industries, businesses, tribes, groups, practices, roles. What social media brings is new TOOLs to existing industries, businesses, tribes, groups, practices, roles. How many pitches does a reporter get each day?

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 22, 2009

Development Social Media Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite the Public Mon, Mar 23, 2009 Social Media “Social media on the Internet are empowering, engaging, and educating consumers and providers in health care. This movement, known as Health 2.0, integration. In fact, at the Health 2.0 integration.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 26, 2009

While the tools and the technology can and always will change, the fundamental challenges of changing the culture of the government remain eerily similar. discussion about Social/Citizen Engagement breaks out somewhere that allows for the possibility of Lessons-To-Be-Learned. Government 2.0 circa 1995) Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I love that he’s not just talking about using Facebook, but that he’s personally engaged with it. Contact the author KT On the macro-level, do hierarchical organizations have better long-term success at “ordering&# people to use social media tools than more “flat&# orgs? The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

It’s about transparency , about employee engagement , about creating new technology , about collaboration , about, well, any of the hundreds of federal, state, and local government initiatives that have been using technology this year to transform and improve the way government works. The Whole. : Discount Timberland uk: cool.nice post.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 1, 2010

Greater engagement? When students see their professor using social media tools as part of the normal day-to-day way of doing things, it makes the students look at these tools not as “cool new things,&# but a normal part of doing business. What makes one better at using social media than another – more fans/followers?

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2009

You’re constantly trying to impose new media/opensource extremism into government and “put one over&# using executive fiat, and not engaging in Congress. You’re constantly trying to impose new media/opensource extremism into government and “put one over&# using executive fiat, and not engaging in Congress.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 12, 2008

They tend to be older (have to learn these tools as opposed to having grown up with them), have longer tenure (are more set in their ways and resistant to change), and are motivated by different things (innovation is rarely on their performance assessments). I might add that engagement also vividly describes the public/private divide.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

The primary reason is because social media tools reflect the culture of the organization – they can’t change the culture of the organization by themselves. The rest of the wiki would be open to engaging others in our work and designed to ‘market’ our capabilities to others.&# Why are Enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Where the police scanner gave the average Joe a way to learn about what was happening in their neighborhood before the mainstream media could report on it, tools like Twitter do this and more. I can see myself using Twitter as a tool for something as simple as navigating city traffic. as a viable communication option.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Use the tools that you’re advocating your clients use. events and demonstrate your knowledge through consistent engagement. link] sradick Yep #4 is a really easy one to use as a filter – that’s where you see the people who see social media as part of a communications and engagement strategy vice some marketing toy.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 8, 2010

Believe in the transformative power of social media – it’s not about applying the same old processes to new tools. Social media doesn't turn off at 5:00 – you need people who are engaged and aware of what's going on all the time. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating?

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

It’s this ability to give honest feedback and to engage in honest dialogue that is common of most social media and Gov 2.0 The challenge cult is really engaged in reality-avoiding happy talk, and is a sure sign of obsequious toady-hood. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? evangelists.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 23, 2010

I have begun advocating a shift in thinking about social media which considers it as one component of citizen/ public engagement From this perspective, social media is just one of the many different tools and channels where interaction can take place. ″, ideation and feedback tools, email, call centers, etc.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 12, 2010

Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0 Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Justifying return on investment and finding the time to engage in online social media communities were the other two top challenges identified by more than half of the respondents. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? The major findings are available in the full survey report and you can download that here.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 7, 2010

[link] Mark Drapeau A lot of this comes down to engagement, right? Government is so caught up in rules and regs, finding “high value datasets,&# having contests, and so forth that they often forget to simply reach out to people in innovative, social ways, and engage them on a human level. Great post…thanks.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

While they remain two of the IC’s most vocal proponents of social software, Intellipedia and rest of the tools on Intelink are all DNI tools. While they remain two of the IC’s most vocal proponents of social software, Intellipedia and rest of the tools on Intelink are all DNI tools.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 2, 2010

Read the Twenty Theses for Government 2.0 – if you’re interested in this world, read these basic tenets of how social media and the government works You’re not going to learn this stuff via books and blogs alone – you’re going to have to get your hands dirty and actually use these tools to interact with the people you’re trying to reach.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Find them , use them, engage them. This might mean engaging in a conversation about why person X feels this way or (gasp!) Then work to gain consensus about how to accomplish the spirit of the law without killing the spirit of social media engagement. These are the people who will make or break your foray into social media.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The same tools that allow us to communicate within our organizations and with one another online can be used to bring together these organizations around common goals. citizenship are changing, and we need to be educated—at every level—on how and why to engage through open government channels. The Whole. : Powered by Wordpress.

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