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

Social Media Strategery

Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. Before our VPs starting using Yammer to communicate with the workforce, we had groups of Android geeks and fitness gurus.I'm It doesn't work like that.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

Let’s take a look at the many hats of the internal community manager: Referee – When someone posts a link to a political article and the conversation is starts to devolve into partisan name-calling and vitriol, guess who gets to be the one to steer the conversation back toward professionalism and healthy debate?

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

In collaboration with Chris and a few other team members, we pitched the idea to our leadership as a low-cost, low-resource opportunity to network, collaborate on some of the tough issues facing our team, learn from other members of the team, and have an opportunity to get involved with the rest of the team beyond their individual project teams.

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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

If you think that the enterprise-wide wiki you’ve been pushing to install is going to change the culture of your organization, think again. That wiki is going to reflect the culture of your organization, not change it. holds a lot of promise: Increase collaboration! Use wikis to eliminate email! Enterprise 2.0

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Make Sure Your Social Media Evangelists Feel the Love

Social Media Strategery

While writing my last post , I got to thinking about all of the conversations I’ve had with the talented, ambitious, entrepreneurial colleagues I’ve gotten to know over the last few years. Go beyond just what you see on the status reports and performance reviews and find out exactly what impacts this person has had.

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Grading Social Media

Social Media Strategery

While I’m sure I’ll be havi ng a ton of conversations with both students and faculty, about a lot of different topics, one of the things that I’m interested in learning more about is how (and if) social media has had any impact where it really matters at the collegiate level – student grades.

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Building Your Business With Internal Collaboration

Convince & Convert

right there, “ The Collaborative Organization ,” and also the CEO, Founder, and Grand Poobah of Chess Media Group. It’s the first really comprehensive strategy guide to collaboration in the work place. ” Benefits of Internal Collaboration. Jay: …why do people need to collaborate internally?