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Social Media Done Right Means No More “Social Media” Experts

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 That’s what I said almost three years ago when Walton Smith and I started our social media practice here at Booz Allen. and the role social media is playing in the future of our government.

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Social Media isn'ta Prerequisite for Open Government

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Social Media isn’t a Prerequisite for Open Government Fri, Feb 19, 2010 Government 2.0 I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0

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How a New Communications Graduate Can Stand Out

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Rather than taking five bullets to tell me that you wrote press releases, managed social media sites, created media guides, and pitched media, tell me a story. How many press releases did you write? How many social media sites did you manage? Tell me what you did do.

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The “New Media Director” Position is Just a Means to an End

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Some may herald this as a sign that yes, the government finally “gets it!&# Some may even look at a role like this as the pinnacle for a social media professional in the DC area. The “New Media Director&# position has allowed social media to become this separate, compartmentalized thing.

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More Than Words: How to Really Redefine the Term “Public Relations”

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In the New York Times article linked above, he says: “Before the rise of social media, public relations was about trying to manage the message an entity was sharing with its different audiences.” I can no longer be the man behind the curtain, ghostwriting messages and press releases while I hide behind my brand or organization.

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Social Media Isn't Always the Answer

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 I love thinking about the potential that social media has in fundamentally changing the way our government operates. I also love telling my clients that they’re not ready for social media.

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The Federal Government Can Learn a Few Things from a New State Government Website

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According to the press release , the site gets 1.2 in social media isn’t an experimental pilot program or one-off effort by the innovation group here. In some government agencies, the team that controls the website is totally separate from the team that controls the social media accounts.