Social Media Strategery

JUNE 22, 2011

.&# You could have the greatest tools in the world, but no blog or wiki is going to work if this is the culture in which it’s implemented. adoption and spending is great, but nothing resonates as well with a senior leader as actually getting them to sit down and use the tools until they have that “ah-ha&# moment for themselves.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The Director of Social Media/Virtual Collaboration Lead/Social Collaboration Team Leader. Just once, I’d like to meet some ambitious IT Security professional who says, “you know what, I want to attend this conference so that I can learn how to allow our employees to use these tools AND be safe and secure?”

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

or social media—it is about the strategic use of technology to transform our government into a platform that is participatory, collaborative, and transparent. Open government doesn’t start or end with social media – it starts with a mindset that you want to become more participatory, collaborative, and transparent.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

Development Social Media I Started a Blog But No One Cared Fri, Jan 8, 2010 Enterprise 2.0 Image Courtesy of Flickr user cogdogblog As many of you know, here at Booz Allen, we’ve got an internal suite of social media tools available on our Intranet – hello.bah.com. Do you want cross-team collaboration on a white paper?

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Paradoxically, sometimes the best way to implement social tools are to not refer to them as social tools. tools into the actual business. It’s about realizing that these tools are a means to an end, not the end itself. tools mentioned above have helped with this moderate cultural shift.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 1, 2013

Fast Company just published another article discussing how customers are no longer satisfied just with good products and services or low prices – they want collaboration and conversation from brands. Somehow I don’t think these are the conversations consumers are looking for from brands.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

holds a lot of promise: Increase collaboration! The primary reason is because social media tools reflect the culture of the organization – they can’t change the culture of the organization by themselves. If you want to change the culture of your organization, social media tools can be a part of the solution.

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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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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 22, 2008

This is where I often tell my clients to take a step back from the tools of social media and focus more on the processes of social media. And even if your organization is ready for the tools, it may very well not be ready for what those tools will bring. Are employees discouraged from challenging authority? Thanks for the post.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Sites that are supposed to show data flow in fact are partial and ideological — so often it’s extreme leftists merely baking their ideologies into these tools and celebrating themselves and their consulting. They’re used for two completely different things. link] sradick Thanks for that link Tad! « FollowYourGov [.]

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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

MARCH 1, 2010

When students see their professor using social media tools as part of the normal day-to-day way of doing things, it makes the students look at these tools not as “cool new things,&# but a normal part of doing business. Team Teaching of course enhances the collaboration model of Social Media. link] sradick Thanks Kris!

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 6, 2010

Fri, May 7, 2010 Government 2.0 , Social Media I’ve been in many meetings with senior executives where the topic has turned to social media, and sooner or later, THE question comes up - “So, explain to me again why we should be playing around with [insert your social media tool of choice here]? htttp://www.scarf8.net The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Social media is becoming a much larger aspect of PR and present practitioners with new tools to use, but they are not one in the same. Likewise, I will stop assuming that social media IS public relations and vice versa.

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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. initiatives are.

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Gov 2.0 Collaboration Communities Web 2.0 89

Social Media Strategery

JUNE 7, 2009

Have you changed the culture of your organization from one that hoards information to one that openly shares and collaborates with each other? The event will highlight the projects exhibiting transparency, participation and collaboration in government. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating?

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 24, 2010

Pacific Command’s All-Partners Access Network (APAN), Booz Allen has long advocated the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration with all of our clients. APAN has file sharing applications, wikis, blogs and calendaring tools to coordinate schedules. From our work with the Military Health System to U.S.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 26, 2009

While the tools and the technology can and always will change, the fundamental challenges of changing the culture of the government remain eerily similar. link] Mark Drapeau What’s new is the myraid social technologies enabling powerful organizing, co-creation, and collaboration without formal organizational structures.

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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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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 8, 2011

When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. It’s very much like trying to teach someone to use a wiki for collaboration instead of using email.

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Communities Wiki Yammer Forums 137

Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Don Burke then discussed Intellipedia and how it has changed the way the Intelligence Community collaborates and shares information. If you allow walled gardens, if you allow sections to be closed off, you’ll never realize the collaboration and innovation that true openness allows. Fritzson : “This is just a tool.

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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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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 21, 2010

GovFresh was created last year by Luke Fretwell with the goal of inspiring government-citizen collaboration and build a more engaged democracy and is a great source for all things Gov 2.0. For citizens, I hope it makes them want to engage in a more creative, collaborative way with their government. at the local level to your Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In 2007, he proposed using a construction tool that vibrates cement to keep it in liquid form as it pours. One – I would really like to see much greater collaboration between state/ local/ municipal government and federal government in the social media space. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating?

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 30, 2011

I’ve seen way too many internal launch emails that sound something like this: “Visit our new website, the one-stop shop for all your collaboration needs. I can’t wait to get them using all of these cool tools too! This new website offers all of the Web 2.0 Day 7 (later on) : Damnit!

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Wiki Platform Microblogging Sharepoint 116

Social Media Strategery

JULY 12, 2009

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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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

I’ll write a little about that stuff as well, but I will try to stay focused on how social media can improve internal collaboration, communication, and information sharing behind the firewall. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? link] manual social bookmarking Just curious. link] Meg Ahhh! The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Understanding this dynamic, DHS teamed with the National Association of Public Administration to develop a collaborative platform to both recognize and leverage the interdependent relationships between the DHS and all its stakeholders. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? The Whole. : Powered by Wordpress.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Contact the author KT On the macro-level, do hierarchical organizations have better long-term success at “ordering&# people to use social media tools than more “flat&# orgs? link] Thomas Jackson We’re excited to bring our readers the new iCommandant.com social media tool. The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Not surprisingly, they also held a common interest in social media – what it means to them, what it means to their organizations, and how (and if) they might be able to use these tools. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? Everyone was looking for some sort of guidance that would answer these questions.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 3, 2009

Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0 Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 9, 2009

There are very real privacy, security, and policy barriers to social media implementation, and we must actively work with our IT counterparts to develop collaborative solutions. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? is, But They Do Need to Experience It Six Villains of Gov 2.0 The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

Also, we need more vendors to partner with institutions to bring these tools into the classroom. At Radian6, we experimented in the Spring semester with allowing a select number of undergraduate classes and graduate students access to the monitoring tool for a period of 30 days. The feedback was awesome. Lauren Vargas Sr. The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 30, 2008

My goal for 2009 is to build on this humble base and collaborate with all of you in bringing social media to our government. I want to be the leader within my organization in getting folks to use email less and our internal collaboration platforms more. Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating?

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Here are the three key messages I find myself telling my senior executive clients regardless of what tools I’m showing them. Social media isn’t about the tools – it’s about what the tools enable. The tools that you want to use are dependent on what you want to accomplish. Social media cannot exist in a vacuum.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 2, 2009

When talking with a middle manager or project manager, I’ll typically start by focusing on the tools themselves, rather than on the overarching strategies, like I would do with senior leadership. Show them how the tools can help them save time. Show them how they can use del.icio.us

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Gov 2.0 Social Media Insurance Wiki 72

Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 6, 2008

My social media strategy is to integrate social media principles and applications into existing communications, collaboration, and/or knowledge management strategies. Whether you are a recent grad who developed a marketing strategy using “new media&# tools or an experienced social media strategist you could be our next rockstar!

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