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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference. To address this, we decided to use both Yammer and Adobe Connect , allowing chatting and live audio/video. Does your organization have an internal microblogging service (Twitter is most likely too public for most)?

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. That’s why I love a tool like Yammer. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. If your organization already uses Instant Messaging, microblogging offers the potential to turn those one-on-one conversations into group collaboration. Think of it like an IM platform where every IM you send is open to everyone else in the network.

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