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What Kind of Online Community Do You Have Behind Your Firewall?

Social Media Strategery

" Or Facebook…or Twitter – you name it. Unfortunately, as many have already discovered and many more will continue to discover, successful communities are dependent on many variables, from the accessibility, speed, and reliability of the technology to your community managers. The Social Media/Web 2.0/New

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Klout for Enterprise 2.0 Networks is a Bad Idea

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I then read " Enterprise Social Networks, Performance Reviews, and Company Culture ," on the Social Media Club DC blog that rightfully (and thankfully!) takes issue with this idea of ranking people's influence on these internal networks. Communities don’t work like that.

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

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For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. Starting a Facebook or Twitter account was free, and hiring a part-time intern to manage them didn’t cost much. In reality, social media marketing has never been free. billion industry. It’s a vicious cycle.

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Can Greater Social Connections Improve Higher Education?

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That’s why when I saw that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently invested $2 million in a Facebook app to improve post-secondary education, I knew that I had to find out more about this app and how it might help further the SMCEDU mission. Students self organize on Facebook all the time. Created by Inigral Inc. ,

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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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An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler.

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Development Social Media An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler Mon, Sep 28, 2009 Government 2.0 community, this is a monster merger – one that brings together not only two of the most successful Gov 2.0 The short answer was that the community was unsustainable. Within the Gov 2.0 initiatives?

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Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media | Social Media.

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– Posted using Chat Catcher Kelly I’m a consultant working with Palo Alto Networks; they have an excellent whitepaper on the subject of blocking social networking apps that you may have to worry about, “To Block or Not. apps (Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc.) Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0

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