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When Was the Last Time Your Intranet Empowered Anyone?

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Community Blog. communities have failed to build a critical mass of users, they can quickly become echo chambers, they don’t have full leadership support, and they often fail to make it “ into the flow.&# Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

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The developers are often the most active members of their respective communities and they’re using their own software day after day in the course of doing their jobs. Common Ground – you become a member of the community instead of the guy behind the curtain making changes willy-nilly. Notice anything?

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

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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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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

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If you think that the enterprise-wide wiki you’ve been pushing to install is going to change the culture of your organization, think again. That wiki is going to reflect the culture of your organization, not change it. Enable open and transparent communication! Use wikis to eliminate email! Enterprise 2.0

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Here's Your Chance to Shine: Government 2.0 Expo and Showcase.

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principles, and have made an impact on government and the citizens and communities it serves. Events on Facebook Gov 2.0 bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0 Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0

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Government Use of Social Media - "In Addition to," Not "In Lieu of.

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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?

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Is Enterprise 2.0 Learned From a Book or From Doing?

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Discussions on Day Two centered around the right balance of policies, rules, guidelines, and best practices for internal wikis; the risks of open vs. closed networks; and the need for open/transparent communication between IT and the user community. tools like blogs, social networking, wikis, etc. 1) Enterprise 2.0

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