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Is Our PR Community Part of the New Pittsburgh or the Old One?

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Even in our own city, it’s the startups in the East End, or the CMU engineers, or the foodie restaurants that are opening up who get all the attention for the “new Pittsburgh.” Let’s collaborate and come together more often (virtually and physically) to learn from and push each other to do big things. Let’s think bigger.

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

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While it’s garnered a lot of publicity , won awards , and really changed the way we think about virtual collaboration here, I get asked this question and others like it (e.g., These aren’t trivial questions – people take the time to create a blog post or add content to a wiki because of the promise of emergent collaboration.

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Try Looking Outside to Solve the Problems Inside

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This problem defied engineers for years until a man named John Davis, who had no experience in the oil industry, solved it. One – I would really like to see much greater collaboration between state/ local/ municipal government and federal government in the social media space. Two quick examples come to mind.

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Who Owns Social Media? Everyone and No One | Social Media Strategery

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But what happens when these teams need to work with one another, need to collaborate with each other? That’s not collaboration – that’s an approval chain. All of your arguements for collaboration are solid, but social media is not the cause. Maybe social media shouldn’t be “owned&# by anyone?

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

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IT departments are increasingly being asked to implement wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, video-sharing, and dozens of other varieties of collaboration software – software they may know how to code, but often have no idea how to actually use. and Government 2.0 initiatives.

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The Public Doesn't Need to Know What Gov 2.0 is, But They Do Need.

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or open gov is – but they do need to understand that their government is actively trying to do more to communicate and collaborate with them. or open gov is – but they do need to understand that their government is actively trying to do more to communicate and collaborate with them.&# Great post…thanks.

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Create Content for Humans, Not Machines

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Rather than solving problems, telling stories, and collaborating with our customers, we’re poring over analytics and algorithms to figure out ways to optimize clicks and shares. Engineers, analysts, and data scientists have wrested control of content marketing from the creatives, writers, and storytellers.

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