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Out With The Old…Rethinking Outdated Intranet Portal Models Part I – Introduction

SocMed Sean

functionality like blogs, wikis, and tagging instead of relying on one-way messages from the top. The collaborative efforts of the open source community have also delivered new products into the marketplace, driving the cost of software down and injecting healthy competition into the portal industry. Now, flash forward to 2009.

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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Support communities—forum sites, wikis or any venues that include user-generated content—are surprisingly self-sufficient. To wipe startup costs, check out a free open source solution like phpBB. Customers who participate, create content and connect with other community members become loyal brand advocates. Like this post?

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My Dear Consultant - Think About It !

The Marketing Blog

I should write a blog I should ‘Ajaxify’ my current website I should jump into the conversation I should use a Wiki for enterprise-collaboration And do what not & what not… Why ‘But Why? My company is following the open-culture of communication. That’s the simple question that I have been asking everybody. Why should I do it?

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My Gov 2.0 Heroes

Social Media Strategery

Heroes: Don Burke/Sean Dennehy December 2006 – that’s when I read “ Open-Source Spying &# by Clive Thompson. Intelligence Community was using blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, and other social media tools to collect and analyze national intelligence, that was it – game, set, match. Heroes At the Gov 2.0

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. We’re not talking about enterprise-wide IT systems here, these are relatively simple changes that you can make today and start realizing the benefits of using open platforms as opposed to closed channels. 101 , buy-in , marketing , social media , web 2.0

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Try Looking Outside to Solve the Problems Inside

Social Media Strategery

[link] sradick Great points Andrew – I think we’re starting to see more of the federal/state/local/municipal collaboration as things like Manor Labs, the DC gov stuff, and the SF open source initiatives have gotten more attention. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Kirsten Reed Steve, Great post!

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Gov 2.0 – We Need to Get Past the Honeymoon Stage of Our Relationship

Social Media Strategery

Let’s start with the entire over-celebration of opensouce for opensource’s sake — merely so that the government can spend a bundle buying the consultant that comes with the “free&# software. Open government=closed society of geeks [link] [link] Prokofy Neva You talk as if it is only admirals in the way of the Goverati.

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