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(Social Media) Strategy: Lessons from the Trenches

Dave Fleet

I recognize the massive impact those people had on my life, and do my best to pay it forward – whether meeting people who are looking for career advice, or connecting Canadian newcomers with people in the industry, or supporting the next generation of practitioners. Other times the brief might change as a result.

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(Social Media) Strategy: Lessons from the Trenches

Dave Fleet

I recognize the massive impact those people had on my life, and do my best to pay it forward – whether meeting people who are looking for career advice, or connecting Canadian newcomers with people in the industry, or supporting the next generation of practitioners. Other times the brief might change as a result.

Strategy 195
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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. It heard about many contentious issues from industry representatives but when the report was published, the public interest was entirely absent. This was when groups first started to come together to self-organize online.”.

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5 Reasons CMOs Can No Longer Own Social Media

Hootsuite

Hootsuite partnered with the analyst and research firm Altimeter Group to conduct a study of the quantitative value that social offers modern organizations. Even better, mature organizations say the steering committees and working groups they built to manage social programs have also taught employees to collaborate efficiently.

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Open Community Case Study – American Library Association

SocialFish

With 1300 committees, 11 dues-paying divisions, 17 roundtables, 57 sections and a myriad of possible membership combinations, members had trouble figuring out how to get involved. In return, the industry mood and perceptions have changed. The group had about 80 people when they started the ALA Think Tank group on Facebook.

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Open Community Case Study – Empowering the Periphery

SocialFish

With 1300 committees, 11 dues-paying divisions, 17 roundtables, 57 sections and a myriad of possible membership combinations, members had trouble figuring out how to get involved. In return, the industry mood and perceptions have changed. The group had about 80 people when they started the ALA Think Tank group on Facebook.

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“Oursourcing” – Typo or New Concept?

Webbiquity SMM

Along the lines of: oursourcing ( n ): collaboration between a small group of individuals inside and outside of an organization to perform a specific task for mutual benefit. The steering committee behind the B2B Twitterer of the Year Awards would be a larger example still. Or it may be just a typo.

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