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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Development , Social Media On July 9th, 2009, my Strategic Communications team here at Booz Allen held an unconference as an alternative to the traditional All-Hands meeting. We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference.

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12 Cloud-Based Tools to Stay Productive | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Yammer: We’re just deploying Yammer at New Marketing Labs but it is being used to keep our team connected so that we’re not constantly interrupting each other and so that we can stay in contact when we’re traveling. So far, it’s pretty awesome!

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

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It’s very much like trying to teach someone to use a wiki for collaboration instead of using email. Get used to people copying and pasting the content off the wiki and into a Word document, turning on track changes, and then sending you the marked-up Word document for you to “take a look at&# before uploading to the wiki.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

ZevenSeas and Sharepoint: What Dan showed us, in prototype was a module – or whatever Sharepoint calls plugins (Wordpress) and components (Joomla!) – which allowed Leaders to set badge names and criteria for meeting that badge. Atlassian Confluence wiki karma. Badges for levelling rewards. Reach a target or goal.

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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

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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Make Sure Your Social Media Evangelists Feel the Love

Social Media Strategery

Reading “ starting the organization’s Yammer network &# doesn’t sound all that impressive until you actually join the network and see thousands of people from across the organization collaborating with each other in ways that were impossible using existing technology.

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

Social Media Strategery

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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