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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

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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. platform – hello.bah.com. From here, we coordinated all our planning and outreach efforts. Everything was falling into place.

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Let Luck Be a Lady: Attending blogworld 2008

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I’m particularly excited to meet some of the notable bloggers that I’ve got on my blogroll as well as meeting some other new and upcoming bloggers too. I hope to use this as my home base for reporting back my thoughts on the sessions, on the speakers, and on what I learn from my fellow bloggers.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

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That’s why I love a tool like Yammer. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Sending a message using Yammer is a combination of sending IMs and sending questions to email distribution lists. Not every user base is ready to just jump right in and use a wiki.

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Looking Back at My 2009 Social Media Resolutions

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Despite the availability of tools like hello.bah.com , Yammer , and instant messenger, email remains the least common denominator. Grade: A My sixth resolution was an utter failure – “ use email less internally.&# Not only did I not use email less, I think I actually used it more often.

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I Started a Blog But No One Cared | Social Media Strategery

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Include the link to your content in your team newsletters, meeting agendas/minutes, email signatures, briefings, Yammer messages, and any other communications vehicles you use. People have asked me to go out to Yammer and link back to their wiki pages. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. Cross-promote.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

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Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. 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 web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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Grading Social Media

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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 How would you grade the use of social media in today’s college environment?

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