Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. Consider how you might use the interactive possibilities of the Internet and Web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Twitter as a tool to communicate during conferences. After attending SMX (I’ll post something on that soon) and SES NY, I realized that Twitter is a useful tool for conferencegoers to communicate their whereabouts or to share breaking news and announcements. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Development Social Media Social Media isn’t a Prerequisite for Open Government Fri, Feb 19, 2010 Government 2.0 Open Government/Government 2.0 is about more than wikis, open data , Twitter , Web 2.0, I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0 Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 24, 2010

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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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Development Social Media Gov 2.0 – We Need to Get Past the Honeymoon Stage of Our Relationship Sat, Oct 17, 2009 Government 2.0 I really like going to conferences like this and next week’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco because they help me escape the Gov 2.0 movement. Allow me to explain.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

The developers are often the most active members of their respective communities and they’re using their own software day after day in the course of doing their jobs. Common Ground – you become a member of the community instead of the guy behind the curtain making changes willy-nilly. Notice anything?

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

You may say that your IM application offers the ability to create a chatroom – the difference here is that messages are open to everyone, not just the people you choose. 101 , buy-in , marketing , social media , web 2.0 I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0 ″ del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One of the ways that Twitter has been used (other than listed above) has been by conferences like South by Southwest (SXSW) and Gnomedex. You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Development Social Media Booz Allen Panel Discusses Enterprise 2.0 Mon, Nov 17, 2008 Enterprise 2.0 My employer, Booz Allen Hamilton , recently held an Enterprise 2.0 event where a panel of speakers, both internal and external, came together to discuss the implications of Enterprise 2.0 The Enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Development Social Media Sports Can Learn a Few Things From Gov 2.0 With the right education and change management support, an Intranet like this could help raise the quality and consistency of communications across the league, thereby selling more tickets and making more money for everyone.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

I think so-called intuitiveness of the applications (not the users) goes a long way to helping with this. Corporate Policies on Web 2.0. Depth of learning, communication, and "connecting" Bad Course on Instructional Design : eLearning Tec. and community building. Group communication and the wiki.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Summary : Co-founder and partner at Bonsai Interactive, offering smart marketing and social media business solutions, as well as mobile applications and social education. Founder of the 12for12k Challenge, a community-driven social media charity initiative to connect globally and help locally. Community management. FourSquare.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2010

With each and every one of these events, I always looking forward to meeting and learning from the Gov 2.0 rockstars – Linda Cureton, Chris Rasmussen, Steve Ressler, Clay Johnson, Macon Phillips, Mary Davie, and so many others – people who have helped pave the way for conferences like this. Barcode Software Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

Development Social Media Gov 2.0 I’m hoping to use this series to help publicize some of the openings specifically of interest to the Gov 2.0 community, congratulate those of us on new career moves, and help connect potential candidates to new positions too. Mark’s done a lot of fantastic work in the Gov 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2008

Home > Web 2.0, Gutenberg Parenthesis" is a term Tom Pettitt, Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Denmark, used at an MIT conference on Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures. After this "Gutenberg Parenthesis," humanity is beginning to understand once again, with the Internet, that knowledge is communal.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

No, I was just a strategic communications consultant who saw that social media was fundamentally changing the way organizations communicated, and I decided that this was an area I wanted to focus on. Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 FASTForward FedScoop Governing People Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

No, I was just a strategic communications consultant who saw that social media was fundamentally changing the way organizations communicated, and I decided that this was an area I wanted to focus on. Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 FASTForward FedScoop Governing People Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Too much lecture, not enough conversation and brainstorming Curriculum seemed to be too focused on teaching you what you need to pass the test rather than having discussions about Enterprise 2.0 1) Enterprise 2.0 Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 FASTForward FedScoop Governing People Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

I encourage all of my fellows in government to find ways to meet their mission needs through community building and social media technologies. I encourage all of my fellows in government to find ways to meet their mission needs through community building and social media technologies. world that they have no knowledge of.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 6, 2008

My social media strategy is to integrate social media principles and applications into existing communications, collaboration, and/or knowledge management strategies. I’ve got the Web 2.0 I’ve got the Web 2.0 Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 Is that a problem?

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 27, 2009

So here’s what I’m going to do – I’m going to let you in on the secret and tell you how you can BE a good consultant in this world and add value to the Gov 2.0 community (it’s not all that hard!): Be active within the social media and Gov 2.0 communities, both online AND offline.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

I first met Jen at the 2009 PRSA International Conference in San Diego , and was immediately impressed with her enthusiasm and eagerness to learn about the business uses of social media. Community Manager at Radian6 @VargasL [link] Jennifer Dryer I’m glad you appreciate this as a student’s perspective. Lauren Vargas Sr.

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Education Social Media Gov 2.0 Class 135

Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. These questions need to be asked before rolling out any type of social media application. Enjoy the conference! Enjoy the conference!

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

It’s great that there’s a vibrant community of these experts (check my blogroll on the right for a list of these experts, all much more established than I) actively sharing ideas and experiences. Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 FASTForward FedScoop Governing People Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I hate to see this mindset continue, especially with social media applications behind the firewall. Intellipedia is the Intelligence Community’s wiki that is open and editable to anyone with the appropriate clearances within any of the 16 Intelligence Agencies (keep in mind that the FBI is included in this).

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 22, 2008

best practices , government , government 2.0 , public sector , social media , web 2.0 I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0 Thanks for the post, John [link] sheajohnp Hey Steve, this is a very important issue for government communicators and I couldn’t agree more.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Too often we see social media strategies that involve putting photos into Flickr, videos into YouTube or the creation of a Facebook application and then never revisiting the environment to engage with the communities around this content.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner is a powerful application that manages the more high level management Twitter tasks for you, from managing followers/friends to changing your profile design and then some. You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. Does this add a lot more value than those two applications?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

They really need to sort this process out or they are going to end up losing developers to other platforms, which make it a lot easier to get an application approved and have more transparent processes,” explains Roland Hutchinson of Geeky Gadgets. introduced an application-geared Internet. You know what’s not a good idea?

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 1, 2010

Would you have a Social Media and Communications 101, a Biology and Social Media 101 course, etc.? No, I’d rather see social media taught as it’s applicable to the individual classes, not as a one-size fits all approach to learning how to tweet or blog. Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0

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Bare Feet Studios

AUGUST 20, 2008

We are also using it as a demonstration project for how to plan a conference using the fabulous (and mostly free) tools of social media. We used Spreadshirt , because it is a social web application. in their community. The important takeaway of this blog series is that you can use these tools for any type of conference.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 12, 2008

I’ve worked with clients from across the government who are all seeing social media succeed in helping organizations communicate, collaborate, and share information better than they ever have. Let’s look at my top six: Risks - From Mark Drapeau’s excellent Government 2.0 The government has a higher standard.&#

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Gov 2.0 Wiki Policies Consultant 76

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Industry colleagues are those I have met in person (typically in a casual atmosphere or at conferences). I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category).

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 8, 2010

Not whether that’s the Chief Marketing Officer or the Director of Public Affairs or the Community Relations Lead, but actual names of people. It might be that new guy over in community relations, or maybe it’s your webmaster. Remember, social media is driven by the person, not the position. It might be Kim over in HR.

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Bare Feet Studios

JANUARY 31, 2008

And there’s a lot of technical discussions and general agreement that Ruby On Rails (RoR) , on which Twitter is built, has a very difficult time scaling for applications the size of Twitter. But application server preferences aside, the first thing any company should do is not skimp on their hosting provider. It was great, yah?

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Not only leaders in their professional lives, nearly all these women use their social profiles to express their passions outside the workplace, which range from NASCAR, art, travel, billiards, wine and music to community service, politics and, of course, family. ” She was named B2B Magazine’s 2012 Digital Marketer of Year. Liz Bonilla.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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