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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

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

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&# That’s the question I was recently asked by a colleague working on a project where they had just deployed an internal wiki. They said, “that’s what we want!&# They installed a wiki. And they waited… They soon discovered that their users weren’t actually, you know, using the wiki.

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

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Why isn’t anyone editing the wiki pages?) These aren’t trivial questions – people take the time to create a blog post or add content to a wiki because of the promise of emergent collaboration. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. at least once a week. Cross-promote. Give people an action.

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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

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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! It will continue on the wiki. Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

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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. on our Social Media Investment team wiki page on our internal social media platform. ″ del.icio.us

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Building Your Business With Internal Collaboration

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right there, “ The Collaborative Organization ,” and also the CEO, Founder, and Grand Poobah of Chess Media Group. create a group for your company, and here’s how you do that.” the reservation and are already doing their own grassroots box, or set up a small Yammer, install just for our division?

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Social Pros 18 – Ike Pigott, Alabama Power

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Are you a member of any LinkedIn groups, Jay? I would not say I’m a particularly active member of LinkedIn groups. Yes, I’m a member of many LinkedIn groups, sure. We advise companies and clients to use LinkedIn groups all the time. Ike : Link to the Social Pros Wiki at the end. Jay : I am. Eric : Yes.

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