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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

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Development Social Media Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Development , Social Media On July 9th, 2009, my Strategic Communications team here at Booz Allen held an unconference as an alternative to the traditional All-Hands meeting. We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference.

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Living Proof That Defense Contractors Can Rock at Social Media

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However, Lori had a plan to make social media not only relevant to their audience, but an important tool in helping Raytheon meet its business goals. It encourages collaboration and without it, doing your job would be so much harder.” In This Episode. Why a classified environment means more effective listening. No Barriers USA.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

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It’s very much like trying to teach someone to use a wiki for collaboration instead of using email. You cannot possibly garden the wiki, write your blog posts, moderate all of the forums, stay active on Yammer, run your metrics reports and do everything else a community manager is asked to do by yourself.

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Make Sure Your Social Media Evangelists Feel the Love

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Reading “ starting the organization’s Yammer network &# doesn’t sound all that impressive until you actually join the network and see thousands of people from across the organization collaborating with each other in ways that were impossible using existing technology. Talk to other people.

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How to Apply Youtility to Internal Communication

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You’ll be encouraging greater cross-functional understanding, collaboration, and overall engagement. The 2014-2018 Email Statistics Report by The Radicati Group reveals the average employee receives 121 emails each day, and this number will only grow. Newsletters. Town Halls. Voicemails. Leadership Blogs. YouTube Channels. And on and on.

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

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While it’s garnered a lot of publicity , won awards , and really changed the way we think about virtual collaboration here, I get asked this question and others like it (e.g., 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.

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Grading Social Media

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Team Teaching of course enhances the collaboration model of Social Media. Team Teaching of course enhances the collaboration model of Social Media. I’ll check it out – nice meeting you in Evansville! I’ll check it out – nice meeting you in Evansville! Central time. link] sradick Thanks Kris!

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