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Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position

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and how this concept is fundamentally changing the way our government operates and the audience wasn’t filled with Chief Technology Officers, Chief Information Officers, Directors, or Secretaries – it was filled with scientists , contractors , members of the media , webmasters ,and start-ups. link] Marcus Very nice information.

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Keeping Gov 2.0 Fresh

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Heroes series to videos, books, and a whole host of RSS feeds, Luke has created a platform that offers value to anyone involved in Gov 2.0, After seeing how government was beginning to use social media, it dawned on me that I could create my own set of aggregated feeds and effectively build my own news site. chatter is centralized.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

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I walked them through how to use both RSS feeds and del.icio.us , and showed them how they could use simply tag their relevant media coverage using whatever tags and descriptions made sense to them. They could then create an RSS feed for those tags that is placed onto their internal Intranet site. Add RSS feeds to your website.

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Get Your Head Out of That Gannt Chart and Do Some Thinking Once in.

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When was the last time you created an Outlook appointment to catch up on your RSS feeds? This could involve: Catch up on your RSS feeds Read the paper Have a team meeting where the only agenda item is “what can we be doing better?&# But what do we lose when we get into routine like this? Did you tell anyone about it?

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

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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. I start by sending them these eight bullets - Write interesting content. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. How do I get people to read the blog?

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What I Like/Didn't Like About blogworld

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Networking - I met soooo many more great people that I’m now following/being followed by , I’ve added more blogs to my RSS feeds, and have opened up tons of future resources. Informality - Loved that most people/speakers wore jeans, football jerseys, etc. The Wynn in Las Vegas – Wow! Made them seem more real.

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Stop the Posturing About Government 2.0 and Do It Already

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I think that the biggest challenge for individuals in large or small organizations, public or private sector is making the mental shift from broadcasting information to participating in the conversation. There is a lot of information available on the internet to help state your case, if needed. Are you feeling me?

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