Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

That’s the question I was recently asked by a colleague working on a project where they had just deployed an internal wiki. They researched the latest collaborative software. &# They installed a wiki. And they waited… They soon discovered that their users weren’t actually, you know, using the wiki.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 12, 2010

Client Offerings: Social Media Mentoring sessions provided an opportunity for junior staff to showcase client capabilities they were developing as a way to add value to their existing projects. Participants not only understand the concepts, but are actively deploying these solutions within their project teams.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 19, 2010

We have deadlines to meet, emails to write/respond to, projects to work on, management issues to take care of, errands to run, families to care for, and many many other things that we do on a daily basis. When a project deadline gets moved up, what’s the first thing that gets bumped? I know we’re all busy.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

is about more than wikis, open data , Twitter , Web 2.0, I spent some time on a DHS-TSA project and our secure laptops only had IE6- it was the biggest pain point of the job and it slowed productivity incredibly – how did anyone navigate 30 websites, sharepoint sites, email windows at a time pre-tabbed browsing? 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. DHS First Responders Communities of Practice Booz Allen is working with the DHS Science & Technology Directorate to build and manage the DHS First Responders Community of Practice – a platform that serves the nation’s 2.8

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Five years ago, when I joined my company, the only mentions of the terms “wikis&# and “blogs&# were usually preceded by the words “What the hell is a…&# Now, as with most organizations, there is an enormous demand for social media, both internally among my colleagues, and externally with my clients.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Five years ago, when I joined my company, the only mentions of the terms “wikis&# and “blogs&# were usually preceded by the words “What the hell is a…&# Now, as with most organizations, there is an enormous demand for social media, both internally among my colleagues, and externally with my clients.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 12, 2009

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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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 24, 2009

IMO, it’s one of the cooler social media projects that we’ve helped support. My hat’s off to our team out in Colorado Springs who helped make this project a success! IMO, it’s one of the cooler social media projects that we’ve helped support. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 2, 2009

The third group is the middle manager and project manager - For managers - “So, how much time is my staff going to be spending blogging/reading blogs rather than doing actual work? Ah, yes, time for the middle managers and project managers. Show them how the tools can help them save time.

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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. Analysts are part of an integrated project team and engage in every aspect of our work, including project planning, primary and secondary research and analysis, and preparation and delivery of final recommendations.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Steve Ressler, Founder of GovLoop As announced this morning, GovLoop, the premier social network for the government community, has joined forces with GovDelivery, the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communications solutions. The short answer was that the community was unsustainable. Within the Gov 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.

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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. Year In Review!

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 21, 2009

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! and the role social media is playing in the future of our government.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

Professors wouldn’t teach students to create overhead projection slides instead of using PowerPoint, so why do they refuse to adopt the principles of social media as a quick and effective way to replace less effective methods? 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

JANUARY 10, 2009

I have to post my code to a wiki? If my staff have questions about their project, their career, or their work environment, I want them coming to me, not blogging about it for the whole world to see. I can see their blog postings, their wiki edits, their bookmarks, and their skillset.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2009

Brown – Technology, Strategy, People, Projects [.] by Steve Radick on Social Media [.] #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

MARCH 22, 2009

Like Steve said, these changes aren’t going to happen overnight, but with projects like this and with the many intelligent people currently working and those who are interested in this topic, it feels like we are moving in the right direction. What about information security?!? And, I agree Steve, must we attach a 2.0 at the end?

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2009

It showed me people asking the tough questions , demanding more out of the community, and tackling some very polarizing legal issues. Behind the firewall, the government is using things like MediaWiki and WordPress to power the Intelligence Community’s wiki and blogging platform. relationship. What happened and why?

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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. link] Alex Bea Great post.

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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.

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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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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 23, 2010

In still another, it was a mish-mash of people including public affairs officers, project managers, internal communications, privacy specialists, records management professionals, and senior leadership. Meeting agendas and minutes will be posted to our internal wiki. I can’t wait to start tapping you on my project.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Development Image Courtesy of Flickr User pboyd04 Have you had a disagreement with your boss about the direction of a project? How about the last time you felt strongly enough about a project you were working on that you didn’t take “no&# for an answer? web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

It was originally part of a class wiki. Hence, they prefer the more limited view of PLEs as a configurable extension to a VLE, especially when they continue to see themselves as the monopoly technology service providers for their learning community (eg online enrolment, email addresses). This prototype is called PLEX.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 11, 2010

He often leaves no visible traces of the damage he causes and often emerges from the failed project unscathed. project by demanding endless planning, testing, and reams of requirements documents. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Weaknesses: Top Cover.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 7, 2010

You people in DC sure are talking a good game – trotting out your iPhone apps , Twitter feeds , blogs , and wikis - and I suppose I should care about those things, but in reality, I haven’t got the slightest clue why any of that matters to me. means that our client is willing to try projects that break down traditional silos.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Learning Communities (26). Wikis (13). on Question: Tracking CBTs Question: Tracking C… on Ask a Question Christy Tucker on Daily Bookmarks 07/19/200… Ken Allan on Daily Bookmarks 07/19/200… Blogroll. Bamboo Project. View Entire Community. General (6). Higher Ed (30). Informal Learning (12).

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

A ‘cluetrain for government’, as you note, is an ambitious project and I can’t claim to have any greater wisdom than anyone else. A ‘cluetrain for government’, as you note, is an ambitious project and I can’t claim to have any greater wisdom than anyone else. Twenty Theses for Government 2.0, socialnetworking government) [.]

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

This is like the wiki of websites. Here are some of my favorite social Archives Categories Blogroll October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 January 2010 December 2009 October 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 Notice : wp_list_cats is deprecated since version 2.1!

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

This is like the wiki of websites. Here are some of my favorite social Archives Categories Blogroll October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 January 2010 December 2009 October 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 Notice : wp_list_cats is deprecated since version 2.1!

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