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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

Social Media Strategery

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? There are Google+ master classes. Social media has become almost a cure-all for an organization's problems. Quite the opposite, actually.

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Social Pros 17 – Maria Ogneva, Yammer

Convince & Convert

This episode features Maria Ogneva of Yammer. Before we get rolling, I will thank our sponsors, which includes my company, Argyle Social , developers of social media management software used by all of today’s brightest social marketing stars, including our guest today, Maria Ogneva from Yammer. Maria Ogneva, Yammer @themaria.

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The Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist: An Introspection

Social Media Strategery

The whole report is a must read, and I encourage anyone who’s leading any sort of social media effort, public or private sector, big or small organization, to read it. Because Booz Allen is such a huge organization that. Summit and Gov 2.0 Our social media capabilities resemble the Dandelion model ( page 15 ).

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Grading Social Media

Social Media Strategery

In last week’s #SMCEDU chat, we discussed the issue of grading students in classes that teach social media. What about those classes that aren’t teaching social media, is there a place for social media in those classes too? How should social media fit into the world of academia? And then, how do we grade them?

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

How is the organization more hierarchical or flat? That’s why I love a tool like Yammer. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Sending a message using Yammer is a combination of sending IMs and sending questions to email distribution lists.

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9 Steps to Creating a Successful e-Course

ProBlogger

’ Instead of believing these voices and losing momentum or ignoring them entirely – which drains your energy because they are still yammering in the background – write down what they are saying. The idea is simple – read to find how a piece of writing is organized and then use that structure for your own content.

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Twitter versus Plurk: Not Even in the Same League

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I think this may be partially in part due to the time-line layout (it’s not very organized, though the design is entirely understandable). chat Reply Jag February 9, 2009 at 10:23 am Great comparison Reply rudeshock February 10, 2009 at 1:13 am Twitter, Yammer, Plurk. It works for that purpose just fine. But PLURK? I LOVE PLURK!

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