Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 26, 2009

Show them how they can use their organization’s internal blogs, wiki, bookmarks, etc. Once we deployed internal blogs, a wiki, and forums, that’s when my work internally with social media really took off. I went in and created dozens of wiki pages on every social media tool I found. I blogged every chance I got.

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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. I will add you to my blogroll! I will add you to my blogroll! web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Lookin good.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

is about more than wikis, open data , Twitter , Web 2.0, Offer extended hours, offer limited service offices in places like Wal-Mart, allow bill payments in various locations like the utility companies currently do (i.e. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 12, 2008

One of the things that I have consistently noticed in my five years as a government communications consultant is that our new hires who come from the corporate world go through an adjustment period upon first supporting a government client. How big of a net should you cast when implementing a wiki or blogs behind your firewall?

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Enter Intellipedia , the gold standard of wikis 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). Wed, Oct 1, 2008 Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 6, 2010

While there’s no shortage of resources for how to measure the ROI of social media, but unlike commercial companies, our government doesn’t use social media to make money or to sell products. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! community who have experienced similar frustrations. htttp://www.scarf8.net

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

When I tell these eager young professionals that I’m a communications consultant who specializes in social media, I usually get one of two questions: 1) What does that mean? DO be ready to walk me through the steps you might take if I told you that I the CEO of a company and I wanted to start a blog. or 2) Seriously? The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 12, 2010

This “light bulb” discovery led me to the second step in my social media adventure—creating a program that would do the same thing for others on a massive scale (20,000+ employee company). web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! is, But They Do Need to Experience It Six Villains of Gov 2.0 The Whole. : Powered by Wordpress.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 8, 2009

As a sports fan and a government consultant, here are some of the government’s social media initiatives that I’d like to see cross over to the sports industry: A closed Intranet for all of the teams in a particular league. So, in your mind, the stock exchanges should be eliminated because every company should be public?

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Development Social Media Wanted: People Who “Know&# Social Media and Communications Tue, Oct 7, 2008 Enterprise 2.0 , Social Media My company, Booz Allen Hamilton , is actively hiring consultants who “get&# social media. One of the other areas that we’ve branched out into social media consulting.

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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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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I recently read a fascinating article in the latest edition of Fast Company – “ A Problem Solver’s Guide to Copycatting.&# For example (from the Fast Company article ), “In 1989, the pilots of the Exxon Valdez ran it into Bligh Reef, spilling enough oil to cover 11,000 square miles of ocean.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 1, 2009

I saw very senior government employees chatting it up with very junior consultants, employees from two different companies sharing time on a panel session, and groups of consultant/government folks hashing out a solution to a problem one of them was having. What I’d Like to See Next Year The wiki. The organizers.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

Maybe Coach Wristlet is the style, quality of stitching, or the softness of the leather that the company is renown for. Cluetrain Style Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position How to BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media The “Getting Started with Government 2.0” web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 19, 2010

I had a great conversation recently with one the senior leaders at my company and he told me that’s the one thing that separates the good from the great. Cluetrain Style Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position How to BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media The “Getting Started with Government 2.0”

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 17, 2009

This blog, my presentations, my internal blog, my wiki pages, etc. Use you as an example – you’ve made some really good traction at your company with what you’ve actually accomplished, not with what your title is. This blog, my presentations, my internal blog, my wiki pages, etc. The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2010

Cluetrain Style Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position How to BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media The “Getting Started with Government 2.0” web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! web20 wiki Meta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org © 2010 Social Media Strategery.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

Company promotions and advertisements were broadcast through television, magazines, billboards and the occasional internet banner. Employers do not want to hire a person whose Twitter or Facebook page could make their company look bad. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! The Whole. : Powered by Wordpress.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Also, Mike Kujawski (www.mikekujawski.ca) has started a wiki that seeks to capture the many (international) Government 2.0 Also, Mike Kujawski (www.mikekujawski.ca) has started a wiki that seeks to capture the many (international) Government 2.0 By contrast, Twitter is in its infancy and already being embraced across government.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 22, 2008

I’ve seen Intellipedia , TSA’s Evolution of Security blog , DoDLive , the DoD’s Blogger’s Roundtable , FEMA’s YouTube channel , GovLoop , and many other examples of “Government 2.0.&# I’ve also seen plenty of failed blogs, dormant wikis, and other failed attempts at using social media. The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Imagine what their fears will be and address those, but most importantly show how the company’s (or in my case, the association’s) work can be enhanced by that new tool/platform/effort. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! is, But They Do Need to Experience It Six Villains of Gov 2.0 The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

&# Their response ranged from the dismissive – “why would we have a class on learning to Twitter – only old people use it anyway?&# – to the inquisitive – “it’d be great if we could learn more about how these tools are being used by companies so we’d know before we got hired.&# The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 26, 2009

Yes, but despite the yearly hype that a company has “totally reinvented&# the car, the improvements were yearly increments that, if you were a car-nut, must have seemed “major&# at the time. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Are cars better than 50 years ago? Are cars better than 50 years ago? The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Use email less (internally) – One thing I’ve realized is that if I keep answering people’s emails, people will continue to send them to me, even if I explicitly tell them that they’re more likely to get a hold of me by posting their question/comment to my internal blog, contact me on Yammer, use my internal wiki page, etc.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 8, 2010

Although some people are sleeping and are still thinking advertising, print, TV … Allow and promote evangelist of your company, brand and products. That's why so few brands/companies/organizations have really *gotten* social media yet. Who runs your SM accounts? Train and educate them. And call them evangelists. The Whole. :

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 12, 2010

First, it was led by the Department of Transportation, not by a commercial company or a non-profit. held by commercial companies and non-profits, but when a conference on government is hosted and led by government, it takes on a different feel and usually results in greater sharing, trust, and relationships. htttp://www.scarf8.net

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 25, 2010

This story resonated with me because it not only made me think of all the companies and brands that have earned my loyalty over the years, but also of the the interactions that I have had with our government, be it at the Post Office, at the DMV, as the Social Security Administration, the IRS, etc. The Whole. : Powered by Wordpress.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 23, 2010

Then yesterday, I came across this post by Rick Alcantara, “ Who Should Control Social Media Within a Company? ,&# and I couldn’t help thinking that we’re asking the wrong question. Meeting agendas and minutes will be posted to our internal wiki. Meeting agendas and minutes will be posted to our internal wiki.&#

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Mon, Nov 10, 2008 Social Media Image courtesy of Flickr user Douglas Staas As I sat down the other night to write another blog posting for my company’s internal social media platform, I thought to myself what would happen if I were to stop. What’s my legacy if I were to leave my company? Stop blogging. Stop Tweeting.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 23, 2009

Since that first day back in 2006, when I realized the opportunities that social media presented me, my company, and my government, I have evolved from an opportunist to a leader (I hope!), You start thinking things like, “If the intelligence community can collaborate on a wiki, then why isn’t every organization?

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 25, 2008

Cluetrain Style Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position How to BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media The “Getting Started with Government 2.0” web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! web20 wiki Meta Register Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org © 2010 Social Media Strategery.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Create Blogroll â?? Create blog design that complements the rest of the personal or company brand. Have clear blog tagline. Always remember the readersâ?? want is more important than what the bloggerâ??s t be a Lone Ranger. Network with other bloggers. Create links to favorite blogs. Submit blog to blog directories e.g. [link].

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 2, 2010

Back when I got started with social media at my company, it took me around six months to go from “hmmm, this is interesting” to “let’s actually do something with this as an organization!” web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email! Congratulations if you made it this far! At this point, you will be pretty overwhelmed – that’s ok!

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