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Can Leaderless Organizations Win?

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Whether it's the Arab Spring , the Tea Party movement or Occupy Wall Street , what is it about leaderless organizations that makes it all seem so strange to us? In 2006, I made the six hour drive from Montreal to Boston to attend the first PodCamp Boston unconference (a participant-driven or self-organized gathering).

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Personal KM; KM Business Case; KM, culture and compromise; KM Books Wiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Personal KM; KM Business Case; KM, culture and compromise; KM Books Wiki. Use email, threaded discussions, blogs, and wikis to share what you know and think, ask questions and solicit help, and build credibility and a good reputation. File, tag, organize, and search effectively so that information can be readily retrieved.

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The KISS Method For Determining Social Media ROI

SocMed Sean

Obviously, each business or organization will have different Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that determine the success of social media activities, but many organizations can benefit from using some, or all, of what I call the K.I.S.S. Keep in mind that you may need to provide employees with incentive to participate. Nicholson.

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A Community of Practice Is More Than a Website

Social Media Strategery

A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger , a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. Nowhere in the definition above does it mention the words website , wiki, blog, or social network. A CoP is built around conversation. What are you building?

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The Convergence of Search and Social Part 7 – A Strategy Framework

Josh S Peters

and determine what blogs they read, social networks they use, forums or wikis they use, etc. Check out Forums, wikis, groups, blogs, etc. Paid ads (Google AdWods) are helpful if organic SEO is going to be a very hard and long uphill battle. Use a social media listening platform like Radian6, Trakur, Sysomos, etc.

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Learning Professionals Leaders

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How can you apply them to your existing systematic learning system if you don't know what the heck wiki even means? And there are some good comments in her post including: A lot of "us" learned these technologies organically, as we needed to. Nobody cared about wikis until wikipedia came along.

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

Social Media Strategery

As CIOs and Chief Knowledge Officers bring tools that have been used on the Internet – blogs, wikis, microblogs, profiles – behind the firewall, they tend to expect the same results. "We'll So, if you're deploying social tools internally, what kind of community is your organization creating? Total Silence. "Call