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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

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I'm substantially less active on Twitter than I used to be. How did I go from annoying everyone around me by my incessant yammering about social media to the guy who grows increasingly annoyed when people talk about everything social media will do? Start a Twitter account! I haven't blogged here in more than a month.

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Rest in Peace, Social Media Ninjas

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tools internally, and you’re managing your organization’s Twitter and Facebook pages. tools internally, and you’re managing your organization’s Twitter and Facebook pages. Everything’s going according to plan, right? Eh… not quite.

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

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We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference. To address this, we decided to use both Yammer and Adobe Connect , allowing chatting and live audio/video. Does your organization have an internal microblogging service (Twitter is most likely too public for most)?

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Time for a Change

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Over the last four years especially, I felt as if I was at the tip of the spear when it came to things like social media policy (this blog and my Twitter account were the first transparent, employee-owned, external social media properties), Enterprise 2.0 (I I was on the Programming Committee for the first Gov 2.0 Summit ).

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

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When someone in the communications industry refers to a “ community manager ,&# they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. Inspirational Leader – You will not have enough hours in the day to do everything you want.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

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That’s why I love a tool like Yammer. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Sending a message using Yammer is a combination of sending IMs and sending questions to email distribution lists. Not every user base is ready to just jump right in and use a wiki.

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Make Sure Your Social Media Evangelists Feel the Love

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Most of these individuals serve, in some fashion, as social media evangelists – they’re the ones leading the charge to get their organizations on Twitter, to start blogging, to start using new technology to really change how their organizations operate. Image Courtesy of Flickr User AndYaDontStop.