Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

The guys installing your organization’s blogging software don’t realize that the “Add a Picture&# button doesn’t work because they don’t have blogs. Sharepoint developers implement Sharepoint, yet they don’t use it to manage the implementation. platform haven’t even created profiles of themselves.

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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? principles, and have made an impact on government and the citizens and communities it serves. guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

Why isn’t anyone editing the wiki pages?) 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. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. at least once a week. Cross-promote. Give people an action.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I think the most successful social media efforts are those that are driven by passionate people who love people and who truly want to change the way their organization operates, not by people with degrees, certificates, or titles. tools like blogs, social networking, wikis, etc. tools like blogs, social networking, wikis, etc.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 7, 2009

Become intimately familiar with your organization’s strategic plan and develop a briefing or write a white paper advocating why social media would help your organization. Camp, will you be able to say that you have: Sought out social media skeptics and opponents in your organization and engaged them? The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

&# That’s the question I was recently asked by a colleague working on a project where they had just deployed an internal wiki. They said, “that’s what we want!&# They installed a wiki. And they waited… They soon discovered that their users weren’t actually, you know, using the wiki.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

The theory that everyone’s information had to be safeguarded from others’ nefarious schemes within their own organization dominated the traditional Intranet culture. Enter Intellipedia , the gold standard of wikis behind the firewall. Intelligence Community – not the general public. And why is that, you ask?

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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. I realized that the technology and the work didn’t mean anything unless I had a community, unless I connected to PEOPLE. Now, instead of highlighting the Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 17, 2010

Development , Social Media Image courtesy of Flickr user Percita Over the last three years, I’ve met a lot of people who are their organization’s social media evangelist, lead, POC, pioneer, ninja, guru, etc., bah , boozallen , champion , change management , cm , E20 , evangelist , organization , social media , spear , web 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 12, 2010

The organizers told me yesterday that they’re hoping to have these workshops every six to eight weeks or so. I hope we can, as a community, help drive toward actions and not get too hung up on the myriad challenges in our way. guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof. Is it the CIO?

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

is about more than wikis, open data , Twitter , Web 2.0, So, for those who maybe might not be ready for social media, here are eight things you can do now that can help your organization become more open, and none involve social media: Update the content on your website a few times a week - And not just with more PDF downloads.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 12, 2009

Pre-Conference After receiving approval to move forward, we established our “home base&# – a wiki page on our Enterprise 2.0 About a month before the Unconference, we sent an email out to the team asking for people to propose potential topics via the wiki. So, how did we do it? And more importantly, was it successful?

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 24, 2010

APAN has file sharing applications, wikis, blogs and calendaring tools to coordinate schedules. The system is designed to handle extremely secure communications, while also interacting with the general public and disaster relief workers and organizations. Or find Commander Scott McIlnay or Tracy Johnson at the Expo.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 12, 2010

You may have heard of the term “ reverse mentoring ”— an alternative method of learning where the seniors in an organization become the mentees and junior staff serving as the mentors. And lastly, what’s the next step to scaling this program to a massive organization? web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Fri, Oct 9, 2009 Government 2.0 “Dear [fill in your favorite sports team], You may think of me as a fan or as a ticket-holder now, but if you give me the chance, I’d gladly be a marketing specialist, brand ambassador, web developer, community organizer and data cruncher. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 27, 2010

community’s zeal for all things social media and online, 1/3 of Americans still don’t have access to broadband Internet , and even among those who do, less than 50% prefer to contact their government via online means, instead preferring the telephone, in-person contact, or writing a letter (!!). community? The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 2, 2009

He advocates for asynchronous communications and for engaging with the community when and where they are, rather than trying to get more comments or web traffic. He advocates for asynchronous communications and for engaging with the community when and where they are, rather than trying to get more comments or web traffic."

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

People tend to think that their value to their organization is directly proportional to the amount of destruction that would occur in their absence. Have you shared your skills and knowledge with others throughout your organization who will help ensure the success of your efforts after you leave?

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Justifying return on investment and finding the time to engage in online social media communities were the other two top challenges identified by more than half of the respondents. bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

isn’t about the tools, but what those tools enable – it’s about more than just creating a blog and engaging in dialogue with the public, it’s about more than just creating a wiki that’s open to multiple government agencies, and it’s about more than just making data accessible to the public. The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 25, 2010

Are your organization’s policies such that you would be able to spend ten extra minutes with a heartbroken customer to fix their problem? There are so many things the government could learn from bringing in other organizations to find out what they do well, and vice versa. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The sports community is a very insulated community – teams and leagues generally look inside the sports industry to hire their communications and marketing professionals, but maybe they should take a look at the Government 2.0 industry to find that next pool of communications talent and innovation.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Sat, Oct 25, 2008 Social Media Image courtesy of Flickr user hiyori13 As I mentioned in my last post , one of the key success factors to deploying social media in an organization is that someone is “a champion.&# This approach has proven to be incredibly beneficial to my organization’s social media efforts and to my career.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

community, congratulate those of us on new career moves, and help connect potential candidates to new positions too. Analysts assist in coordinating, planning and facilitating joint meetings of Academy staff, our Panel members and client organizations. Maintains and executes organization’s social media strategy.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 15, 2009

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 26, 2009

Our first group is the Junior Employee - For junior employees - “Yeah, that’s great that I can start a blog that everyone in the organization can read, but what will I say? Show them how they can use their organization’s internal blogs, wiki, bookmarks, etc. What if I disagree with something that my manager says?

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 17, 2010

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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 want a compartmented enterprise-wide wiki for whatever reason, that’s fine – just don’t expect to realize all of the benefits that something like Intellipedia brings.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Using Facebook to organize your local PRSSA chapter is very different from using Facebook to invite your friends to a kegger. bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0 web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Community, have had an alternately successful and frustrating (but never boring) year. 2009 went from unbridled optimism to eager anticipation to a little dose of realism, but through it all, the community of people and the relationships that have been forged across agency lines continued to grow stronger.

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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. By using a platform instead of a channel, you can take advantage of the knowledge that exists in your organization without needing to have that personal connection with everyone.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

It’s unfortunate that in some organizations, disagreement and career progression have become mutually exclusive. It’s unfortunate that in some organizations, disagreement and career progression have become mutually exclusive. guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

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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. How big of a net should you cast when implementing a wiki or blogs behind your firewall? The government has a higher standard.&#

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Development Social Media Try Looking Outside to Solve the Problems Inside Tue, Feb 9, 2010 Best Practices , Social Media Quick – who recently said this in reference to his organization’s social media efforts? and social media communities have been telling our bosses and clients for years now? Sound familiar? discussion.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

It’s great that there’s a vibrant community of these experts (check my blogroll on the right for a list of these experts, all much more established than I) actively sharing ideas and experiences. I think I bring a unique perspective on the challenges that government agencies face in bringing social media to their organization.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 19, 2010

When was the last time you just sat down and thought about your project/organization/contract/initiative and wondered? Do a Twitter search for your organization/brand and see what others are saying via steveradick.com [.] guest health internal leadership OReilly opengov organization Personal pr Prof. The Whole. :

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