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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating? These are purposely ridiculous questions – wouldn’t the best developers use the actual tools they’re responsible for building? Brown) Twitter Comment Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You’re Creating?

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Enterprise 2.0 Isn’t About Social Business, It’s Just About Business

Social Media Strategery

Paradoxically, sometimes the best way to implement social tools are to not refer to them as social tools. tools into the actual business. It’s about realizing that these tools are a means to an end, not the end itself. tools mentioned above have helped with this moderate cultural shift.

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Everyone’s on Facebook, Why Aren’t They on the Intranet Too?

Social Media Strategery

There are always those early adopters (think Twitter users in 2007 , Facebook users in 2004 ), but generally large-scale adoption of new communications tools takes years, often decades (think radio and television) – until now. So how does understanding this information help you build a successful internal social media platform?

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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?

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Enterprise 2.0 Success is About the Players, Not the Field

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It happens when they are rewarded for sharing information. First, since I suffer from HOLI (“ Hatred of Losing Information “), I hate seeing the missed collaboration opportunities that result from these poorly implemented solutions. Are they punished for hoarding information? or Social Business software.

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Social Media isn'ta Prerequisite for Open Government

Social Media Strategery

Upgrade your “Contact Us&# form with a name and contact information – I don’t know about you, but when I see a generic “contact us&# form, I usually don’t take the time to provide any feedback because I assume it’s going to go off into the ether and I may or may not get a response sometime in the next seven days.

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Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media | Social Media.

Social Media Strategery

Time Management Strategies for Social Media The key takeaways that I wanted the attendees to walk away were: Not information overload but filter failure – There’s always been too much information for us to ever possibly consume. The only difference now is that the gatekeepers (book publishers, TV producers, etc.)

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