Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Discussions on Day Two centered around the right balance of policies, rules, guidelines, and best practices for internal wikis; the risks of open vs. closed networks; and the need for open/transparent communication between IT and the user community. tools like blogs, social networking, wikis, etc. 1) Enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 12, 2010

For most agencies, the deadlines are completely unrealistic – getting legal approval on anything, much less a policy change, usually takes 45 days by itself. I hope we can, as a community, help drive toward actions and not get too hung up on the myriad challenges in our way. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Community, have had an alternately successful and frustrating (but never boring) year. 2009 went from unbridled optimism to eager anticipation to a little dose of realism, but through it all, the community of people and the relationships that have been forged across agency lines continued to grow stronger.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 27, 2010

community’s zeal for all things social media and online, 1/3 of Americans still don’t have access to broadband Internet , and even among those who do, less than 50% prefer to contact their government via online means, instead preferring the telephone, in-person contact, or writing a letter (!!). community?

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

Why isn’t anyone editing the wiki pages?) These aren’t trivial questions – people take the time to create a blog post or add content to a wiki because of the promise of emergent collaboration. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. Will I get an opportunity to influence future policy?

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

For example, I volunteer with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (ypfp.org) and we’re always looking for volunteers to help design and implement our social media strategy. bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

isn’t about the tools, but what those tools enable – it’s about more than just creating a blog and engaging in dialogue with the public, it’s about more than just creating a wiki that’s open to multiple government agencies, and it’s about more than just making data accessible to the public.

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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. How big of a net should you cast when implementing a wiki or blogs behind your firewall? The government has a higher standard.&#

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Fri, Oct 9, 2009 Government 2.0 “Dear [fill in your favorite sports team], You may think of me as a fan or as a ticket-holder now, but if you give me the chance, I’d gladly be a marketing specialist, brand ambassador, web developer, community organizer and data cruncher. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The sports community is a very insulated community – teams and leagues generally look inside the sports industry to hire their communications and marketing professionals, but maybe they should take a look at the Government 2.0 industry to find that next pool of communications talent and innovation.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Social media and government started not with some policy or memo from the senior leadership, but from regular people sitting in a cubicle who saw an opportunity and decided to do something about it. They eventually changed the policy. Becoming part of the community and collaborating is a huge piece of successful social media.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 2, 2010

Find your organization’s social media policy/guidelines and memorize them. If your organization doesn’t have any social media guidelines, find your external communications policy and see if it’s covered in there. If not, then go and talk with your public affairs/external communications team and have a conversation about this.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009 From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 19, 2008

If you decide that you want to be the social media change agent within your organization and start blogging, creating and editing wikis, uploading videos to YouTube, etc., Bookmark the blogs on my blogroll found to the right. Read the blogs that you find on those blogs’ blogrolls. Guess what – no one is.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009 From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

If there isn’t a policy stating you can’t do something, then that probably means it’s allowed, right? bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0 web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 17, 2010

bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0 web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

community, congratulate those of us on new career moves, and help connect potential candidates to new positions too. The Director, New Media and Web Communications has specific responsibility for training and guiding Department Web Managers and for overseeing implementation of web policies and procedures. Open until Feb.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 19, 2009

The Department of Defense is supposed to be releasing their social media policy in the next month or so. Other agencies are following suit and issuing their own policies and guidelines. link] Ari Herzog …so why praise these released policy documents if such is not the way to go? RT @cheeky_geeky: Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 11, 2010

Through near constant talk of policies, regulations, and costs, The Downer calls attention to every possible reason why an idea can’t and won’t work, yet is unable to see the potential benefits. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

iCommandant.com does have a comment policy that closely resembles that of the Official iCommandant website, with one exception “No Moderation.&# Comment Policy: We welcome your comments on postings at iCommandant.com. Comment Policy: We welcome your comments on postings at iCommandant.com. Coast Guard Domain.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 9, 2009

I know many IT professionals who are huge social media evangelists, and I know communicators who are terrified of losing control of the conversation. There are very real privacy, security, and policy barriers to social media implementation, and we must actively work with our IT counterparts to develop collaborative solutions.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 23, 2009

You start thinking things like, “If the intelligence community can collaborate on a wiki, then why isn’t every organization? This is where you will most likely be brought back to earth by the policies, management, and politics of the real world. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 23, 2010

I’m finding that I’m no longer justifying the use of social media, but helping develop the processes, policies, and personnel that will move the use of social media from interesting experiment to a long-term way of doing business. Meeting agendas and minutes will be posted to our internal wiki.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 10, 2009

Because sometimes all it takes is one blog , one wiki , or one presentation to inspire someone else, I wanted to interview one of TSA’s bloggers, Blogger Bob , to find out what made TSA take a risk like this in the first place, how it’s been working out for them, and what we can look forward to in the future. If so, what was it?

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

What’s the best way to get people to contribute to our organizational wiki? What am I missing in my social media policy? We have a blog, Twitter account, podcasts, and other social media already, but no one is using them – what’s the best way to build more community? Should they?

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 8, 2010

This is why so many social media initiatives fail – not because of technology or policy, but because of people. Not whether that’s the Chief Marketing Officer or the Director of Public Affairs or the Community Relations Lead, but actual names of people. Remember, social media is driven by the person, not the position.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Blogroll Andrea DiMaio Andrew Wilson's Posterous BlogWrite for CEOs Business As I See It Buzz Bin Chris Brogan Clay Shirky Common Craft Corporate Hallucinations Digiphile Dion Hinchcliffe DorobekINSIDER Enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 7, 2010

There have been a multitude of new policies , conferences , guidelines , platforms , and even awards for things related to something called Government 2.0 community need to do a better job of and it’s not educating the public on what open government is or why they should care. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 27, 2009

community (it’s not all that hard!): Read other people’s blog posts, wiki edits, forum questions, and tweets and help out if you can – even if it’s just sending a helpful link, providing a good point of contact, or giving a restaurant suggestion to someone in a different city. Stay on top of current Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2009

community, I’ve had the opportunity to meet a ton of different people, all with different motivations, frustrations, and aspirations. You would do well to shift more of your energy away from selling your product and instead focus more on providing value to the community. Development Social Media What’s Your Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Policies are not written in stone. With justification, passion, and knowledge, policies and rules can and should be changed. making a change to an outdated policy. The wrong answer is: to fulfil a policy that has been passed down to us as Govt. Information security is a very real and valid concern. agencies and bodies.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

It was originally part of a class wiki. The structure, features and policies of most VLE implementations tend to perpetuate the traditional instructivist models of education. These are content management systems (CMS) which handle many types of content including a wiki. and an expanded view of ePortfolios.

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