Social Media Strategery

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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

If you want to create a vibrant culture of collaboration, you need to be OK with pictures of LOLCats, posts about the NFL playoffs, arguments about Apple and Android, and criticism of company policies. Collaborative communities don't just start innovating because you build a website and send a memo. It doesn't work like that.

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A Community of Practice Is More Than a Website

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Over the last year or so, the term communities of practice has entered the social media buzzword lexicon along with virtual collaboration, engagement, platforms, and Enterprise 2.0. It’s just a group of people communicating and collaborating openly around a topic that they all care about.

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Enterprise 2.0 Success is About the Players, Not the Field

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platform behind your firewall doesn’t mean your employees will suddenly learn to collaborate with one another. Collaboration doesn’t just magically happen because you went out and bought the latest Enterprise 2.0 It happens because they have a reason to collaborate. Does leadership model collaborative behavior?

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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

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When I first started using social media professionally back in 2006, it was because I recognized that these new tools could fundamentally change the way organizations communicated and collaborated. Back then, using social media in the government was like being among the first cavemen to discover fire.

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Everyone’s on Facebook, Why Aren’t They on the Intranet Too?

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We are social creatures, but businesses that assume our social tendencies will ensure the success of a new collaboration platform are gravely mistaken. And make no mistake building an internal collaboration platform is an IT implementation.) Because to unleash the power of social media you have to understand human behavior.

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Klout for Enterprise 2.0 Networks is a Bad Idea

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I don’t blame Salesforce’s CEO for taking advantage of this laziness that exists among his customers, but I can’t see how in any world, things like this being a good thing for creating collaborative organizations. As Shirky said in the video, you can’t eliminate all the fluff and get just the brilliant ideas.

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Social Media isn'ta Prerequisite for Open Government

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or social media—it is about the strategic use of technology to transform our government into a platform that is participatory, collaborative, and transparent. Open government doesn’t start or end with social media – it starts with a mindset that you want to become more participatory, collaborative, and transparent.

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