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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

Does your organization have an internal microblogging service (Twitter is most likely too public for most)? Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0 Try an INTERNAL Unconference | Social Media Strategery [link to post] Very cool. The Whole. :

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

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. already talked about how to justify social media to the big-wigs. This post expands on that. The Whole. :

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating? The Whole. :

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter, Pownce, and other “microblogging&# platforms really don’t fit in the type of social networks that I intend to illustrate here. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca But how would you count how often you “visit&# Twitter?

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

His blog is full with regular small byte-sized updates about U2, sports, movies, and more. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Sean McGee is a huge U2 fan like his dad (yes, that Matt ). He’s 12 years old and lives in Tri-Cities, Washington. He also tweets regularly.

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Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I ran a sports site until just recently, and I LOVED to talk sports from that Twitter account. I refused to tweet more than once a day about sports on my @danielthepoet account, simply because most of my connections there are marketers or tech-obsessed folks (i.e. not so much sports fans). that is what is important here.

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you open a newspaper and take a look, even within the Sports section, their’s specific writers who consistently tackle specific topics. They rarely have one writer covering the details of every local sports team. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca