Social Media Strategery

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Can Greater Social Connections Improve Higher Education?

Social Media Strategery

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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Do You Have What it Takes to Change Government and Create Gov 2.0?

Social Media Strategery

More than 250 interviews were conducted with federal agency leaders and their employees, career executives, congressional staff, unions, media, customers, and interest groups. Can you explain how becoming more open and collaborative will help your agency/team/department/group/division better achieve its mission?

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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. What group/community receives the most visits and/or posts on a particular day? The Android/iPhone User Group. An group focused on the core mission/operations. Why do you log into Facebook every day? "We'll have our own Wikipedia!"

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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

Social Media Strategery

You can buy thousands of Facebook likes. And there are all too many social media experts, ninjas, and gurus ready to help them get on Twitter, start a Facebook page, and check in on Foursquare. There are Google+ master classes. You can read multiple books for marketing your business on Pinterest.

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I Didn’t Fail the Test, I Just Found 100 Ways to Do It Wrong

Social Media Strategery

“If they bash another group, I don’t want that group to see it. isn’t about creating a Facebook behind the firewall or giving people a way to collaborate. Here are ten that I particularly liked: How to Fail at Enterprise 2.0. Assume this is about collaboration, being social - Enterprise 2.0

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Seven Things About Social Media That You’re Not Going to Learn in College

Social Media Strategery

I really don’t, not when anyone can go and game the system by buying thousands of Twitter followers or Facebook fans. I want to know that you’ve at least tried to use Twitter/Facebook/blogs/Foursquare for a purpose other than getting more people at your Edward Forty-hands parties. People talk….about

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

Social Media Strategery

Before our VPs starting using Yammer to communicate with the workforce, we had groups of Android geeks and fitness gurus.I'm Before my own company's Intranet won any awards , we had people talking about how they enjoy skinny dipping on their profile. Let's all agree now to stop trying to take the social out of social media. "Social"