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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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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

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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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At the Gov 2.0 Expo – Who's Making You Successful?

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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.

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What Makes Government 2.0 Different from Enterprise 2.0? | Social.

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From wikis in the Intelligence Community to internal blogs at IBM , many of my clients see these articles and want to use social media to realize these same benefits, but don’t know how to do it. How big of a net should you cast when implementing a wiki or blogs behind your firewall? The government has a higher standard.&#

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Social Media Integration in Higher Education | Social Media Strategery

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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.

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Gov 2.0 Jobs, Moves, and Opportunities

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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. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Open until Feb. FASTForward FedScoop Governing People Government 2.0 Powered by Wordpress.

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So You Want to Bring Social Media to Your Organization?

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If you decide that you want to be the social media change agent within your organization and start blogging, creating and editing wikis, uploading videos to YouTube, etc., Get Legal, IT, Public Affairs, training, etc. Their websites are now full of inactive blogs and outdated wikis. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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