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

Social Media Strategery

Before our VPs starting using Yammer to communicate with the workforce, we had groups of Android geeks and fitness gurus.I'm 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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Why Email Volume Won’t Decrease

Convince & Convert

There have been several blog posts and predictions recently ( most notably this one from Ryan Holmes, the CEO of Hootsuite ) prognosticating that email volume will diminish in 2013, as consumers make greater use of collaborative messaging tools like Chatter and Yammer. I don’t buy it.

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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

Social Media Strategery

I haven't blogged here in more than a month. 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? Create an internal blogging platform! I guess it was never about social media after all.

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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. tools mentioned above have helped with this moderate cultural shift.

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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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