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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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Social Media isn'ta Prerequisite for Open Government

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is about more than wikis, open data , Twitter , Web 2.0, Generate a greater variety of content on your site and update it regularly. Add external links to your site – Some agencies still have policies that say that they cannot link to non.gov sites. You can and should link to non.gov sites. Government 2.0

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

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Very few internet users rely solely on government social media sites – in fact, those who use government social media sites are more likely to also use other means, both online and off, to communicate with their government as well Balance the promotions of your social media channels with other means of communications.

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Do You Know Where Santa is Tonight? | Social Media Strategery

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For more than 50 years, NORAD has used the media and a special phone number to provide children worldwide with updates on Santa Claus’ location as he travels the globe on Christmas Eve. link] sradick Ari – Booz Allen has coordinated the effort to design and develop the NORAD Tracks Santa web site each year since 2007.

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Will I See You at the Gov 2.0 Expo?

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APAN has file sharing applications, wikis, blogs and calendaring tools to coordinate schedules. The system also supports mobile applications and integrates public social media sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as sophisticated geospatial systems, such as Open Street, to create detailed maps of damaged areas.

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Keeping Gov 2.0 Fresh

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After seeing how government was beginning to use social media, it dawned on me that I could create my own set of aggregated feeds and effectively build my own news site. I met with a friend that Friday who helped me set up the site and it launched that afternoon. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media and IT Security: Adversaries or Partners?

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We’ve seen the return of the Koobface virus , the Marines have banned social networking sites (*UPDATED: No, they haven’t ) , and both Twitter and Facebook were overcome by denial-of-service attacks. Jay Sebastian I’d just like to mention that the Marine Corps did not place a ‘total’ ban on social media sites.

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