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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

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Development Social Media Tired of All-Hands Meetings? 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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Let Luck Be a Lady: Attending blogworld 2008

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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. I hope to use this as my home base for reporting back my thoughts on the sessions, on the speakers, and on what I learn from my fellow bloggers.

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Grading Social Media

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I’ll check it out – nice meeting you in Evansville! I’ll check it out – nice meeting you in Evansville! How would you grade the use of social media in today’s college environment? It’s an interactive twitter session on Thursday nights beginning, I believe, at 8 p.m. Central time.

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Looking Back at My 2009 Social Media Resolutions

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and social media events I attended over the last year, I had the opportunity to meet a huge number of people in real-life. Despite the availability of tools like hello.bah.com , Yammer , and instant messenger, email remains the least common denominator. Whether through the Gov 2.0 Camp , the Gov 2.0

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My Social Media Resolutions for 2009

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I think we lose sight of that sometimes and forget that actually meeting people in person really helps develop and maintain that relationship. In 2009, I hope to meet face-to-face with more of the great folks I’ve meet this year on Twitter and GovLoop. I like your #5. I like your #5.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

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Depending on the client, any one of them might meet your needs. In addition to directing them to the above resources and offering to meet with their client directly, I’m also going to start pointing them to this post by Jason Falls. Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom.

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

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Include the link to your content in your team newsletters, meeting agendas/minutes, email signatures, briefings, Yammer messages, and any other communications vehicles you use. Will this be the new location where all of our meeting agendas and minutes will be kept? Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc.

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