Social Media Strategery

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A Community of Practice Is More Than a Website

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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. A group of people who share an interest, a craft and/or a profession. Sounds pretty simple, right?

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Gov 2.0 – We Need to Get Past the Honeymoon Stage of Our Relationship

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[link] Tad Reeves At Steve Ballmer’s keynote speech at SharePoint 2009 conference in Las Vegas, he implies that the takeup of social media will never happen in government and big business, due to corporate fears of their data being all over Facebook, etc. As you can see in the attached video, he suggests SharePoint is the answer.

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An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler.

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But I do think GovLoop can full a void in what I call soft collaboration where people working on a topic whether it is section 508, learning to implement SharePoint, or figuring out how to move to a government executive – can connect, collaborate, and share ideas. First thing, join GovLoop if you haven’t already.

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