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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. Before our VPs starting using Yammer to communicate with the workforce, we had groups of Android geeks and fitness gurus.I'm It doesn't work like that.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

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. The Internal Community Manager wears many hats. Yeah, that’s going to be you.

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Enterprise 2.0 Isn’t About Social Business, It’s Just About Business

Social Media Strategery

.” She went on to say that instead of talking about social media, social business, building communities and why your organization needs to use blogs, wikis, and microblogging, you should be talking about increasing sales, increasing productivity, and cutting costs. For you, building communities might be the goal.

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The 3 Building Blocks of Social Business Evolution

Convince & Convert

He writes the Britopian blog, and wrote the new social business book, Smart Business, Social Business: A Playbook for Social Media in Your Organization (available July 26). The foundation of a fully collaborative social business, whether for a small or large firm is the company’s most valuable asset, its people. Start with an idea.

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media I Started a Blog But No One Cared Fri, Jan 8, 2010 Enterprise 2.0 Image Courtesy of Flickr user cogdogblog As many of you know, here at Booz Allen, we’ve got an internal suite of social media tools available on our Intranet – hello.bah.com. How do I get people to read the blog? Government 2.0

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

In collaboration with Chris and a few other team members, we pitched the idea to our leadership as a low-cost, low-resource opportunity to network, collaborate on some of the tough issues facing our team, learn from other members of the team, and have an opportunity to get involved with the rest of the team beyond their individual project teams.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

They identified a need to bring people people together in a collaborative environment. They researched the latest collaborative software. They issued memos to their users telling them that this collaborative tool that they’ve all been clamoring for is now available. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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