Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Ok, so you decide to implement an internal microblogging platform like Yammer or Socialcast, or even an internal Wiki platform like SocialText or Confluence. You sweat the long nights and the hard work that it takes to get your new platform stood up within your organization so that everyone can begin to collaborate. You are a hero.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration SocialCast SocialText Lurker 100

Social Media Strategery

JUNE 21, 2009

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! Development Social Media Enterprise 2.0 Enterprise 2.0

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Gov 2.0 Wiki Social Media Collaboration 117

Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2011

What if your social media “star” left your organization? Over the last several years, as social media has become increasingly ubiquitous in many of our daily lives; government, nonprofit and commercial organizations have begun using social media to connect with their internal and external stakeholders. Would you turn into Cleveland?

How To 103

How To Wiki Conference Organization 103

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Organizing a Challenge The first step in getting started with a challenge is to pick a topic. Think carefully about how you structure and organize your activities. I've also found that it's a good idea for Challenge organizers to be flexible in coming up with activities.

Project 100

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 30, 2011

In the fall I wrote a guest post entitled, “ But I Don’t WANNA Change ” about using change management techniques to encourage the adoption of social media within organizations. Is your goal to train employees, improve morale, or communicate more effectively to a global workforce? User first!

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Wiki Forums Collaboration Facebook 139

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

I havent had a Personal Learning Environment (all caps, meaning some kind of learning portal), but instead a badly organized personal learning environment--a loosely organized set of tools that were often scattered in various places, both physical and digital. Learning and Training. 5 Reasons You Dont Need Training.

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Netvibes Web 2.0 Module Wiki 109

Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This has become a sort of mantra for me – it’s about changing behaviors, it is not about getting people to use a wiki/blog/social networking site, etc. The subject was using change management methods to encourage social media adoption within organizations. To do that effectively within an organization you need to use change management.

Wiki 110

Wiki Organization Social Media Loyalty 110

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Dont show me 10 possible wiki tools. This is true for both individuals and organizations. Usually these reasons have to do with lack of time or lack of training or a boss who isnt supportive--all things that are supposedly "out of their control." So the question is, how can you (and I) start screwing up more?

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Project Web 2.0 Wiki Flickr 234

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

In each of the units, there were some commonalities: a different way to access to information and share information, new organization, different means of communication and (with that) new communication skills, and a greater level of work and personal life intersection. The result is less formal communication (i.e.

Wiki 113

Wiki Class Web 2.0 Skills 113

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

I wonder where the organization fits into these work literacies. Just like family background can have a positive or negative affect on literacy, the support, training, and even understanding of workers at the organizational level can have an effect on work literacy. Group communication and the wiki. Posted by V Yonkers.

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Skills Wiki Training 100

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

As she notes in her introduction, Li’s book is organized around four main themes: Research: start by using search and social media monitoring tools to discover where your customers and prospects are congregating. Wikis (Wikipedia, hundreds of specific topic-focused wikis).

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Review Social Media Marketing Handbook 152

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Organizations need to move away from the specialist and instead focus on the trainable (who can become a specialist with minimal training). For many organizations and managers, this can be threatening. Therefore, we need as many eyes and ears and minds open that can help an organization stop before it gets in too deep.

Skills 124

Skills Web 2.0 Wiki Construction 124

Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

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.

Gov 2.0 125

Gov 2.0 Social Media Wiki Collaboration 125

Bare Feet Studios

JULY 25, 2011

Set up an organization page on an existing popular social network to connect with others. Helps organize your team, save assets, plan events, archive files and processes. Training Programs (Sign up for ours! A wiki provides groups with collaborative publishing and work- space. Is there a dev & support budget?

Social Media 79

Social Media Ustream Wiki Content management systems 79

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Since then, Ive been doing a lot of thinking about the whole concept of personal learning and how that relates to "staff training and development," what I consider to be more institutionally-driven training. Do we really want to turn that over to the organization to decide?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

on how should agencies of the future be organized. So that means they integrate things like blogs, podcasts, wikis, forums into a “Hive” (one could say mashup here). Their new product LearnSocial is a revolutionary new way for businesses to train employees. Romi was also a speaker on Agency 2.0

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Mashup Aggregator Microsoft 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

4 Training on SNA. 9 Related FAQs/Wiki Pages. Training on SNA. Training on Social Network Analysis, Mapping social relations : Introduction training provided to the Department of Health of the Philippines by Dr Steeve Ebener, WHO (April 2008): [link]. The training includes 1 license/seat of the InFlow 3.1

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Analysis Social Networking FAQ Wiki 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2008

5 Reasons You Dont Need Training. Culture of Training vs. Culture of Learning. Services for Companies and Organizations. Learning and Training. Read More Here! Help Save the Earth. Help Save the Earth. Search This Site. Best of Bamboo. 6 Reasons People Arent Commenting On Your Blog. Blogging for Learning. e-Portfolio.

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Project Class FeedBurner Web 2.0 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

But if I planned it publicly, on my blog, in a wiki, or even in a Google doc, then I could open it up to the resources and feedback of knowledgeable people all over the world. For me blogging takes the space of some professional development, some networking, some training for customers and some qualification of clients. Productivity.

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Project Web 2.0 Wiki Training 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 4, 2008

Using the diagram I created, I thought how these categories might be used to assess training and technology needs and how different groups might use different tool sets. Organizations often hire based on performance skills, and evaluates new hires during probation areas using performance skills objectives.

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Skills Diagrams Wiki 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. is vital to any nonprofit organization. The messenger is the person, group, or organization that delivers the information to the audience. and more precisely, the effective transfer or exchange of knowledge â??

Web 2.0 100

Web 2.0 Crowdsourcing RSS Case Study 100

SocialFish

OCTOBER 21, 2010

In fact, a survey we conducted indicates many people expect help to arrive within one hour of posting a request on an emergency organization’s Facebook page. Multiple organizations and systems were having trouble coordinating and sharing information. Join and contribute to the wiki on this issue: [link].

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Ustream Wiki SMS Survey 162

Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 12, 2008

I’ve worked with clients from across the government who are all seeing social media succeed in helping organizations communicate, collaborate, and share information better than they ever have. How big of a net should you cast when implementing a wiki or blogs behind your firewall? The government has a higher standard.&#

Gov 2.0 76

Gov 2.0 Wiki Policies Consultant 76

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Karrer and Michele Martin have just launched Work Literacy , which is: "a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work." training. (3). How do you make training useful?

AJAX 100

AJAX Lijit scribd Sharepoint 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 23, 2008

Learning and Training. 5 Reasons You Dont Need Training. Culture of Training vs. Culture of Learning. Services for Companies and Organizations. Knowledge Sharing. Personal Learning. Productivity. Professional Development. Tools for Better Work. Best of Bamboo. 6 Reasons People Arent Commenting On Your Blog.

Project 100

Project FeedBurner Web 2.0 Wiki 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

® collaboration (wikis, groupware) Slide 4: Affect on Organizations (Society and Education?) ® New Organization ï?® ® understand and recognize key communication nodes within the organizations, including within and between departments ï?® ® Train using new technologies and new uses of older technologies ï?®

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Viddler Automotive Skills Real Estate 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Learning and Training. 5 Reasons You Dont Need Training. Culture of Training vs. Culture of Learning. Services for Companies and Organizations. Knowledge Sharing. Personal Learning. Productivity. Professional Development. Tools for Better Work. Best of Bamboo. 6 Reasons People Arent Commenting On Your Blog.

Screencast 100

Screencast Project Web 2.0 FeedBurner 100

Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

We’re already seeing it with Intellipedia , with change.gov , with the TSA’s blog – within virtually every government organization, social media is at least being discussed. The point is that there’s demand for social media expertise in the public sector. Just DO something!

Gov 2.0 93

Gov 2.0 Web 2.0 Wiki Policies 93

Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

The Director, New Media and Web Communications has specific responsibility for training and guiding Department Web Managers and for overseeing implementation of web policies and procedures. Analysts assist in coordinating, planning and facilitating joint meetings of Academy staff, our Panel members and client organizations.

Gov 2.0 86

Gov 2.0 Web 2.0 Forums Wiki 86

Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2010

As Shedd mentions in his post, “In much the same way as you need to train yourself to recognize the market ‘pains’ that product opportunities create, you need to train yourself to note who you work best with, what personalities are most compatible.&# applications, platforms, products and training program.

Gov 2.0 91

Gov 2.0 Fashion Web 2.0 Committee 91

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

My generation embraced the PC because it was new and we were learning how to use it in school, whereas my father embraced it after other workers started to use it and demonstrated how it could impact the organization. Group communication and the wiki. I am sure the same happened when the xerox machine and telephone was introduced.

Module 100

Module Web 2.0 Skills Wiki 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Information literacy is rapidly gaining recognition as the underpinning for both knowledge management and learning organization initiatives. While not a new idea, information literacy is rapidly gaining recognition as the underpinning for both knowledge management and learning organization initiatives. Information overload.

Library 100

Library Compete Skills Proposal 100

Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

Marketing degree’s are really lacking in training on basic social media training and I really feel for all of the graduates from the past 5 years. There are several middle/high schools I can think of that are requiring Twitter accounts for 9th graders, iPads for 6th graders, and blogs and wikis for collaborative learning.

Education 135

Education Social Media Gov 2.0 Class 135

Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 8, 2010

Development , Social Media Who leads your organization’s social media initiatives? Adding “social media&# to that junior public affairs officer’s job description isn’t suddenly going to turn your organization into the next Zappo’s. Remember, social media is driven by the person, not the position.

Gov 2.0 139

Gov 2.0 Social Media Social Media Management Organization 139

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2008

I am a firm believer in the organic development of language which I dont think Esperanto is (which is why it never took off). Group communication and the wiki. Have you ever thought about a possible wider role for Esperanto? Theres a good introduction to the language at www.esperanto.net Bill. July 28, 2008 12:58 PM. ► March. (2).

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Laurel Papworth

MAY 23, 2010

Not all comments have been good but I think a lot of issues have been around training and understanding of it’s core purpose, and overly rigid implementations by IT. In other words, SharePoint is a Microsoft product that manages the tasks and information of an organization with respect to their hierarchy levels.

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Sharepoint Conference Social CRM Microsoft 63

Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Now that GovLoop is part of a commercial organization, is there any risk that it will fall out of favor with government employees because they don’t want to be seen as “endorsing” a commercial product? I’d love to give training scholarships so those govies who want to advance their career can get the training they need.

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Gov 2.0 Collaboration Communities Web 2.0 89