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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

Do your customers have a need for community, convenience, or collaboration? The market research team is typically the best equipped, since they a) know who your competitors really are, and b) likely keeps tabs on them already for other campaigns, pricing, promotions and events. The CMO will also want to know the data.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is a great use because it allows doctors collaborate together and share their expertise, which can ultimately save a patient’s life and/or help find cures in the future. They used Twitter, so that attendees could tweet and discuss the events with their followers. Another use has been to aid others in fulfilling dreams.

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Here's Your Chance to Shine: Government 2.0 Expo and Showcase.

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Have you changed the culture of your organization from one that hoards information to one that openly shares and collaborates with each other? Expo events, are holding the Gov 2.0 Events on Facebook Gov 2.0

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Social Media isn'ta Prerequisite for Open Government

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 or social media—it is about the strategic use of technology to transform our government into a platform that is participatory, collaborative, and transparent. Make collaboration part of the assessment process.

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Cognitive Surplus - Use Social Connectivity to Change the World.

Convince & Convert

The book includes several compelling examples of groups creating and maintaining impressive online collaborations, without a profit motive in sight. Second, that making collaboration more convenient will inexorably cause it to become more commonplace. Shirky is realistic in his assessment of collaborations strengths and weaknesses.

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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

Justin Levy

This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell ‘s “10 Ways&# series. Organize an Online Event Social media is a great way to organize offline, but you can also use online tools to organize effective online events. You can read about the results here.

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An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler.

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Basically, GovDelivery is the #1 Government to citizen collaboration platform – think email, text messages, those cool gov’t widgets, etc. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0

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