Social Media Strategery

MARCH 23, 2010

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. In other cases, one team works on something and then sends it on to the other team for a formal “chop.&#

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

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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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Basically, GovDelivery is the #1 Government to citizen collaboration platform – think email, text messages, those cool gov’t widgets, etc. And they had been wondering how to provide places for these government people to move from push communication to a real collaborative space to work together. Takes two seconds.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 7, 2011

PR cannot exist in a vacuum – I realize that my PR efforts will be more effective if I collaborate and communicate regularly with marketing, advertising, strategy, operations and other groups throughout the organization.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

holds a lot of promise: Increase collaboration! Consider incentivizing employees to share information and collaborate with each other. By embedding collaborative tools into the daily flow of work, companies can indeed change their cultures to become more transparent and collaborative. Enterprise 2.0 Break down stovepipes!

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

They identified a need to bring people people together in a collaborative environment. They researched the latest collaborative software. They issued memos to their users telling them that this collaborative tool that they’ve all been clamoring for is now available. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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Gov 2.0 Wiki Social Media Yammer 63

Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 12, 2008

I’ve worked with clients from across the government who are all seeing social media succeed in helping organizations communicate, collaborate, and share information better than they ever have. Wouldn’t you think that NSA and TSA might benefit from being able to collaborate with one another? Where you draw the line?

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 15, 2010

community, the people who have helped me in my career, the people who made me believe that openness, transparency, and collaboration in government could be a reality. It happened because some passionate people truly believed that openness, transparency, sharing, and collaboration would truly help improve them do their jobs better.

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Gov 2.0 Wiki Web 2.0 Sports 66

Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2009

The government is using Facebook, Twitter, and other external-facing social media applications to become more transparent to the public, to collaborate with the public, to increase awareness of their initiatives, to get real-time feedback, and a whole host of other reasons. They’re used for two completely different things.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The Directive takes the principles of openness, transparency, and collaboration and empowers agencies to start using them in their ongoing operations. The loudest voices are usually the outliers ( a group I fondly refer to as “the crazies” ), and I would anticipate that the outliers will be the early adopters in open government.

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Gov 2.0 Web 2.0 Construction Wiki 56

Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The second group is the Senior Executive - For Senior Executives - “What happens when people start using these platforms to just complain about everything? That it’s not just about the benefits of the tool, that it’s about the open, transparent, authentic communications and collaboration that these tools allow.

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Gov 2.0 Social Media Web 2.0 How To 56

Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

They all want to know how/if social media can help them become more transparent, participatory, and collaborative. Your Government agency/organization/group/branch/division is not unique. The technology that is currently driving social media will change, but the principles of participation, transparency, and collaboration will not.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 1, 2009

But this committee (actually, several committees, known as study groups) was not going to settle for government business as usual. With the widespread espousal of web collaboration tools, the government and its partners have the ability and responsibility to provide better customer service to taxpayers.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 1, 2009

Most of the attendees were very much about cooperation, collaboration, and communication. That is, without forgetting it’s all about the collaboration, sharing ideas, and learning new things. That is, without forgetting it’s all about the collaboration, sharing ideas, and learning new things.

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Gov 2.0 Wiki Conference Hashtag 92

Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 19, 2009

You can establish working group upon working group. How will you instill this culture of collaboration, transparency, and participation internally, among your employees so that this is standard operating procedure? [link] Adriel Hampton Thanks for this great post, Steve. You can publish all the open government plans you want.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I would think that a command-based org could overcome people’s initial reluctance to try the new tools and collaborative culture by requiring subordinates to participate. Then, once people have tried it, they like it, embrace it, and then a critical mass forms that participates because they want to, not because they have to.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

It’s about transparency , about employee engagement , about creating new technology , about collaboration , about, well, any of the hundreds of federal, state, and local government initiatives that have been using technology this year to transform and improve the way government works. That’s actually not true.

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Gov 2.0 Social Media Review Web 2.0 120

Social Media Strategery

MARCH 2, 2009

The third group is the middle manager and project manager - For managers - “So, how much time is my staff going to be spending blogging/reading blogs rather than doing actual work? In my experience, this is the stakeholder group that is most skeptical, opposed, and confused about social media.

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Gov 2.0 Social Media Insurance Wiki 72

Social Media Strategery

APRIL 2, 2010

I define it as “the strategic use of technology to transform our government into a platform that is participatory, collaborative, and transparent” but that’s just one definition – there are a LOT more. The Fundamentals Government 2.0 is about more than just social media. The “Getting Started with Government 2.0”

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Gov 2.0 Social Media Policies Privacy 138

Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If your organization already uses Instant Messaging, microblogging offers the potential to turn those one-on-one conversations into group collaboration. Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. Think of it like an IM platform where every IM you send is open to everyone else in the network.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

They’ve fostered a environment in which dozens of collaboration leaders from across the Intelligence Community have emerged to not only sustain the Intellipedia vision, but also to build upon it. Sean Dennehy convinced the Office of Iraq Analysis to be the DNI’s pilot “customer&# for the service.

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Gov 2.0 Social Media Wiki Sports 66

Social Media Strategery

APRIL 17, 2010

To see your work (even within your own organization) turn up in other people’s work without any attribution To be told that “all this collaboration is great, but what real work have you accomplished?&# The following statements aren’t necessarily good or bad, but they do paint a more realistic picture.

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Gov 2.0 Tips Web 2.0 Wiki 107

Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 17, 2009

It’s about the group of people who self-organize a Government 2.0 Since the social media world is so new, “experts&# can often choose their own titles–some traditional (Collaboration Manager, Social Media Lead), and some more reflective of the new media’s culture (Doyen, Maven). in his spare time.

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Gov 2.0 Social Media Wiki Technorati 93

Social Media Strategery

MARCH 22, 2009

can be defined as: the use of social software and its ability to promote collaboration between patients, their caregivers, medical professionals, and other stakeholders in health.&# – Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, M.A., Likewise, physicians and other groups are used to doing things the way they feel comfortable.

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Crowdsourcing Education Gov 2.0 Social Media 73

Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Becoming part of the community and collaborating is a huge piece of successful social media. Becoming part of the community and collaborating is a huge piece of successful social media. I would add, however, that the best way to start doing is to leverage lessons learned from others who are “doing&# social media.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

Students from my age group did not grow up with Facebook or Twitter. There are several middle/high schools I can think of that are requiring Twitter accounts for 9th graders, iPads for 6th graders, and blogs and wikis for collaborative learning. What type of course did you experience this with?

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