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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

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&# That’s the question I was recently asked by a colleague working on a project where they had just deployed an internal wiki. They identified a need to bring people people together in a collaborative environment. They researched the latest collaborative software. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

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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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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

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It’s very much like trying to teach someone to use a wiki for collaboration instead of using email. You cannot possibly garden the wiki, write your blog posts, moderate all of the forums, stay active on Yammer, run your metrics reports and do everything else a community manager is asked to do by yourself.

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Building Your Business With Internal Collaboration

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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?

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How to Apply Youtility to Internal Communication

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You’ll be encouraging greater cross-functional understanding, collaboration, and overall engagement. Make Youtility a Process, Not a Project. While email is arguably the most popular form of business communication, you know it is not the only form. Newsletters. Town Halls. Voicemails. Leadership Blogs. YouTube Channels. And on and on.

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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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The role of social media in managing projects for brands

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In this article, I’ll discuss how social media can assist brands in managing projects. Project management. Most B2B managers can’t fathom social media’s importance for project management, and that’s chiefly because their understanding of the industry is archaic, so to speak. A project lifecycle is complicated.

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