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A Community of Practice Is More Than a Website

Social Media Strategery

A community of practice (CoP) is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger , a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. Nowhere in the definition above does it mention the words website , wiki, blog, or social network. Sounds pretty simple, right? A website is built around content.

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Gov 2.0 – We Need to Get Past the Honeymoon Stage of Our Relationship

Social Media Strategery

is still so new that we talk about it ad nauseam with anyone who will listen, it’s the greatest thing to happen to the government ever , and it’s most definitely not at all like that last command and control relationship where we didn’t have a voice and were bullied around all the time. Not anymore, we say! relationship.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

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I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said.

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

Sharepoint developers implement Sharepoint, yet they don’t use it to manage the implementation. The developers are often the most active members of their respective communities and they’re using their own software day after day in the course of doing their jobs. Notice anything? Well, that was helpful – thanks!

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An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler.

Social Media Strategery

Steve Ressler, Founder of GovLoop As announced this morning, GovLoop, the premier social network for the government community, has joined forces with GovDelivery, the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communications solutions. The short answer was that the community was unsustainable. Within the Gov 2.0

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Building Your Business With Internal Collaboration

Convince & Convert

Internal Community Managers. Jay: Do you think it’s important to have an internal community. manager, the same way that you would have an external community. Jay: Do you think it’s important to have an internal community. manager, the same way that you would have an external community. Jacob: Yes.

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Six Villains of Gov 2.0 | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Sradick There is definitely a fear of change on the part of the senior executives, but I also think that you paint them with too broad a brush. link] Microsoft Talks Smack at WPC; Windows 8 Virtualizes Everything; Villains of Gov 2.0 – SharePoint Daily – Bamboo Nation [.] Six Villains of Gov 2.0 Heroes At the Gov 2.0

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