Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 22, 2008

Development Social Media Social Media Isn’t Always the Answer Tue, Dec 23, 2008 Best Practices As one of Booz Allen’s social media leads, I’m thrilled to see more and more of my government clients starting to ask questions about social media and if/how it might help them. link] Jeffrey Levy Fantastic post!

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 9, 2016

When asked a specific question, lawyers will give a specific answer. A question like “can I just take photos at this next event without needing to track down signed photo waivers for everyone?” Demonstrate you’ve done the research and you’re comfortable enough with it that you can have a conversation about the benefits and risks. “No”

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 20, 2012

One of the questions that my team members and potential employees have asked me a lot over the last few years is "what are you looking for in an ideal employee?" " Question the status quo. You should be bringing new ideas to your boss at least as often as he/she is bringing them to you. "You Why do we do it that way?"

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trick question – all posts have to be approved by management and that never would have made it through. The senior leader in question posts a comment himself thanking the employee for his feedback and explaining the rationale behind the decision. No edits, but you do receive several comments and questions on the page.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

That’s the question I was recently asked by a colleague working on a project where they had just deployed an internal wiki. How do leaders react when their strategy is questioned? These questions need to be asked before rolling out any type of social media application. Is risk-taking rewarded? Enjoy the conference!

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 13, 2011

If you can’t easily answer this question, go back to the top and start over. The answers to these questions can’t be found in a book or blog post. Regularly commenting on other people’s blogs? What areas of social media do you struggle with and why? You’re not awesome at everything, trust me.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

initiatives that were highlighted, but while I came away both impressed and inspired by the results that were discussed, I was left asking myself more and more questions about HOW the speakers got to these results. conference and had any of these questions, then you’re the target audience! Expo coming up in May. For the Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 3, 2012

Avoid making our first contact with the blogger/reporter our pitch email – Retweet them, comment on a blog post, answer a question they have. Coordinate our pitches with our clients so that they aren't surprised by questions from the media. Help the media do their job even if there's no direct benefit for me.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 6, 2010

Fri, May 7, 2010 Government 2.0 , Social Media I’ve been in many meetings with senior executives where the topic has turned to social media, and sooner or later, THE question comes up - “So, explain to me again why we should be playing around with [insert your social media tool of choice here]?

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The following questions don’t have easy answers. Unfortunately, just because it doesn’t fall under marketing doesn’t mean it’s not a marketing channel. If you want to create a true omnichannel plan, you better make sure you’re also addressing channels that are supported by other departments. But guess what? They care about the experience.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 23, 2012

They knew what I looked for in their work, what questions I would ask, what points I wanted them to make. If you ask me a question, I'll get you an answer. Over the years, they had heard me say the same things so many times that they had all bought into the same approach to our work.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 25, 2010

Think about your Intranet for a moment (stop groaning) and answer the following questions. Sat, Jun 26, 2010 Enterprise 2.0 This post originally appeared on AIIM’s Enterprise 2.0 Community Blog.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 22, 2011

You see, while these active champions are responsible for seeding a majority of the content, answering questions, posting content, editing pages, and creating topics, they can also skew the content to suit their own agenda and create a chilling effect on opposing viewpoints and topics.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 10, 2009

My questions are underlined and bolded below – Blogger Bob’s responses are found just below each question. I am also spending a lot of time on Twitter lately seeking out TSA questions and providing answers. Some folks have figured out that they can ask me a question @tsablogteam. Basic questions (e.g.,

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

What questions do you have? If you’re a collegiate student-athlete or college administrator, I’d love to talk more with you about this. What are you telling your student-athletes about this? What rumors are you hearing? Hit me up on Twitter at @sradick or Travis ( @travisknobbe ) and let’s talk.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 1, 2013

Rather than creating your own branded online communities, consider first actively participating in existing unbranded communities by answering questions, solving problems, and offering discounts to those who need it. Not to drive customers to a branded site, but to solve problems and answer questions where they already are.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 1, 2018

The question comes (via email) in one of two forms: We’re interested in doing an editorial story on your client. This article originally appeared at PRDaily. There’s a common request I’ve been receiving, and it has me simultaneously annoyed, disappointed and scared for the future.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Looking back over the last five years there’s little question that “information sharing” has increased across the board and the Web 2.0 tools mentioned above have helped with this moderate cultural shift.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

These are questions that every executive should already have answers to as most organizations are already set up this way. And for these people, answers to these questions are a little less clear, but even more important. If you’re on vacation, who picks up where you left off?

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 6, 2012

One of the questions I answered for my rebel story was, " what advice do you wish someone had given you earlier in your career? " So when I saw Carmen and Lois' site, I recognized that I wasn't alone, that I wasn't crazy for trying to challenging and trying to change long-held assumptions and policies in corporate America.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Being able to clearly articulate your path to answer these questions and achieve your own career goals is the last phase. Is there an end in sight that allows you to reach your full potential or is that not possible in your current organization?

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

From our most senior VPs to senior executives within the government to our summer interns, every group has their own set of questions, concerns, and pre-conceived notions about social media and what it means for them. At the heart of all these questions is an underlying fear of the unexpected. They could all agree on one thing.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 12, 2010

My trouble came from the “why” and the “how” questions. Unsurprisingly, their conversations started out with questions about how to create a user name and click through each site. Early adopters who had been using it for quite a while told me to get on and just start tweeting. WHY am I doing this? For the mentees? For the mentors?

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 5, 2012

Because what will follow is that these stupid, silly, foolish discussions will lead to relationships, questions, answers, and finally, very cool innovations, products, and solutions that will save you money, win you awards, and really and truly create a social business.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The NHL should create an online space for fans to vent their feelings about the lockout, ask questions (which actually get answered) and offer ideas for improving the league. At this point, over-communicate – not with marketing messages, but with contrite honesty. Create a space for fans to vent.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 30, 2011

If you answered yes to any of the questions, then you may want to take a cue from the U.S. Do the same people do all of the commenting and liking? Do you have a lot of likes, but very little comments? Does your organization have several sub-pages with little or no traffic? Navy and reality shows everywhere and consider a scavenger hunt.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

While it’s garnered a lot of publicity , won awards , and really changed the way we think about virtual collaboration here, I get asked this question and others like it (e.g., why isn’t anyone asking questions? Are you asking your team if they have questions about the new reorganization? 6 questions to ask first. [.]

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

When I tell these eager young professionals that I’m a communications consultant who specializes in social media, I usually get one of two questions: 1) What does that mean? However, the second question has been much more popular and has led to the most interesting conversations. or 2) Seriously? How do I get to do that?

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2011

These are some of the questions I’m looking forward to engaging with PRSA International Conference participants in during my session “ When a Star Leaves: How to Sustain Social Media Efforts Over the Long Term.” Or that intern you asked to make viral videos for you goes back to school?

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

questions that tackle today’s social media landscape that hasn’t, in a lot of cases, gone through the legal rigor that other media has. I have one question: Why do you write a college student’s perception of Twitter as for old people as “dismissive? But, there should also be a lot of “what if?&#

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 7, 2009

I just wanted to know I posed sort of the same questions about next year as well as my frank feedback of this event. I just wanted to know I posed sort of the same questions about next year as well as my frank feedback of this event. So you should be seeing a track back in the morning.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 1, 2010

The question then becomes – how do we teach our students to use social media? I’ve announced this post to my Advertising Seminar Class and we are exited to ask you questions about it on Wednesday! I’ve announced this post to my Advertising Seminar Class and we are exited to ask you questions about it on Wednesday!

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

To try to answer this question, Booz Allen Hamilton teamed with Harvard University Professor of Public Management, Steven Kelman to identify the common methods—the best “leadership practices”—used by successful government executives to transform their agencies and achieve mission goals.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The most common questions my government clients asked me this year were, “What’s the business case? For me, 2009 brought about a LOT of opportunities, but maybe even more questions for 2010. What will [insert new techie suggestion here] actually do for me?&# What will be the new DoD social media policy ?

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

These are purposely ridiculous questions – wouldn’t the best developers use the actual tools they’re responsible for building? If you can do this and address the two questions above, no doubt you’ll have fantastic developers building a fantastic product. Do the IT guys developing Windows 7 use Macs?

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 26, 2009

Development Social Media Social Media is Scary – How to Address Junior Employees Tue, Jan 27, 2009 Best Of , Best Practices , Social Media On one of my recent posts, Social Media is Scary , Rick posed some pretty valid questions that essentially boiled down to “yeah, social media is scary, but now what?

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

" My very first boss at Booz Allen made this a habit to ask this question of everyone on her team at least once a month. Because you didn't read an email they sent to you? Own up to it. Apologize and move on. "Are "Are you having fun?"

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