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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

Social Media Strategery

When did I become the guy who gets tired of social media? How did I go from annoying everyone around me by my incessant yammering about social media to the guy who grows increasingly annoyed when people talk about everything social media will do? You can go out and get a social media certification.

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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

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Social media was going to change the world, and I wanted to be at the tip of the spear. I joined a rapidly growing cadre of change agents using social media to radically transform everything from fixing potholes and broken stoplights to managing city budgets. . No one talked about social “content.”

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Rest in Peace, Social Media Ninjas

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It’s now two or three years later, and you’ve become the organizational “expert,&# “guru,&# or “subject matter expert&# in social media, your social media blog receives a lot of traffic, you’ve championed the use of Enterprise 2.0 Social media specialists are the new normal.

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Establishing a Vision and Then Getting Your Team to Buy Into It

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As I wrap up my first week in Chicago, I've fully realized the advantage of working with the same people for years – they knew exactly how I thought about PR, social media, communications, and branding. Instead, I want my team to understand how to best incorporate social media into their PR strategies and tactics.

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Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media | Social Media.

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media Fri, Jun 18, 2010 Prof. I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0 Government 2.0

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Social Media Integration in Higher Education | Social Media Strategery

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Social Media Integration in Higher Education Wed, Aug 18, 2010 Miscellaneous , Personal The following is a guest post by Jen Dryer , a current student at the University of Southern Indiana.

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Identify the Right People to Manage Your Social Media Initiatives

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Who leads your organization's social media initiatives? Social media isn't something that can just be assigned to someone any more than you can just assign someone to be the homecoming king. This is why so many social media initiatives fail – not because of technology or policy, but because of people.