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Government Use of Social Media - "In Addition to," Not "In Lieu of.

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Download the full report Pew Internet released their “Government Online&# report today, and it’s chock FULL of great statistics. link] Shim Marom Thanks for sharing this information, it's a fascinating worth reading report. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Powered by Wordpress.

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What Does Government 2.0 Mean to Me?

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isn’t about the tools, but what those tools enable – it’s about more than just creating a blog and engaging in dialogue with the public, it’s about more than just creating a wiki that’s open to multiple government agencies, and it’s about more than just making data accessible to the public.

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Is Enterprise 2.0 Learned From a Book or From Doing?

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Discussions on Day Two centered around the right balance of policies, rules, guidelines, and best practices for internal wikis; the risks of open vs. closed networks; and the need for open/transparent communication between IT and the user community. tools like blogs, social networking, wikis, etc. 1) Enterprise 2.0 1) Enterprise 2.0

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

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IT departments are increasingly being asked to implement wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, video-sharing, and dozens of other varieties of collaboration software – software they may know how to code, but often have no idea how to actually use. As a developer, you should be expected to blog, tweet, edit wikis, etc.

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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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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

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Pre-Conference After receiving approval to move forward, we established our “home base&# – a wiki page on our Enterprise 2.0 About a month before the Unconference, we sent an email out to the team asking for people to propose potential topics via the wiki. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

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on our Social Media Investment team wiki page on our internal social media platform. on our Social Media Investment team wiki page on our internal social media platform. For example, Aberdeen recently published a report on Sales 2.0 Forrester’s recent report about the growth of the market has earned plenty of blog pick up.

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