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If You Want a Culture of Collaboration, You Need to Accept the LOLCats Too

Social Media Strategery

Before wikis were used by the Intelligence Community to develop reports on IEDs , people were creating user badges to show off their favorite NFL teams. Before our VPs starting using Yammer to communicate with the workforce, we had groups of Android geeks and fitness gurus.I'm It doesn't work like that.

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The 1-9-90 rule won't work for Internal Collaboration

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Ok, so you decide to implement an internal microblogging platform like Yammer or Socialcast, or even an internal Wiki platform like SocialText or Confluence. You sweat the long nights and the hard work that it takes to get your new platform stood up within your organization so that everyone can begin to collaborate.

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Enterprise 2.0 Isn’t About Social Business, It’s Just About Business

Social Media Strategery

.” She went on to say that instead of talking about social media, social business, building communities and why your organization needs to use blogs, wikis, and microblogging, you should be talking about increasing sales, increasing productivity, and cutting costs. tools mentioned above have helped with this moderate cultural shift.

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

It’s very much like trying to teach someone to use a wiki for collaboration instead of using email. Get used to people copying and pasting the content off the wiki and into a Word document, turning on track changes, and then sending you the marked-up Word document for you to “take a look at&# before uploading to the wiki.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

&# That’s the question I was recently asked by a colleague working on a project where they had just deployed an internal wiki. They identified a need to bring people people together in a collaborative environment. They researched the latest collaborative software. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

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

Social Media Strategery

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., Why isn’t anyone editing the wiki pages?) Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc. why isn’t anyone asking questions?

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