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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

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Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. Before our VPs starting using Yammer to communicate with the workforce, we had groups of Android geeks and fitness gurus.I'm It doesn't work like that.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

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Let’s take a look at the many hats of the internal community manager: Referee – When someone posts a link to a political article and the conversation is starts to devolve into partisan name-calling and vitriol, guess who gets to be the one to steer the conversation back toward professionalism and healthy debate?

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

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Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Development , Social Media On July 9th, 2009, my Strategic Communications team here at Booz Allen held an unconference as an alternative to the traditional All-Hands meeting. We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference.

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Make Sure Your Social Media Evangelists Feel the Love

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While writing my last post , I got to thinking about all of the conversations I’ve had with the talented, ambitious, entrepreneurial colleagues I’ve gotten to know over the last few years. Go beyond just what you see on the status reports and performance reviews and find out exactly what impacts this person has had.

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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

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Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 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. Use wikis to eliminate email! Government 2.0

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

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Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. If your organization already uses Instant Messaging, microblogging offers the potential to turn those one-on-one conversations into group collaboration. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Grading Social Media

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Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Of course in our grade centric world, we still need a method to assign some stupid letter to it, so lets have Team Teaching, three teachers assigning a letter grade to the student’s participation and effort. Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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