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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. Sounds like we might already be members of dozens of communities of practice – at work, at church, at school, etc. Sounds pretty simple, right?

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

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

Social Media Strategery

It showed me people asking the tough questions , demanding more out of the community, and tackling some very polarizing legal issues. You’re constantly trying to impose new media/opensource extremism into government and “put one over&# using executive fiat, and not engaging in Congress. relationship.

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Grow Your Wiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

online communities. SharePoint. Luis Suarez outlines the advantages for companies that encourage social media use at work - a more responsive organization, better able to engage millenial generation knowledge workers, and involve experienced workers who hold a wealth of knowledge. BlackBerry. boris mann. change management.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

Socialized

Running a business is a complex affair requiring complex communications. Some companies use Sharepoint and other technologies to manage documents, but many still use e-mail to circulate Powerpoint, Excel, Word and other docs. Similarly, today, many contend that a truly engaged CEO should have a blog, or ought to be on Twitter.

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Social Media isn'ta Prerequisite for Open Government

Social Media Strategery

The best thing that websites can do for engagement is to quickly let people do their business. Meeting people’s needs respects their time and builds confidence and trust–critical to meaningful engagement. The best thing that websites can do for engagement is to quickly let people do their business.

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eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Start Pages as Environments for Self-Organized Learners

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I have been using Netvibes for more than a year now and similarly to the use case in the presentation I have tailored my start page to fulfill my needs in certain contexts (trips, translation tools, tech news, community and collaboration). Looking Toward the Horizon: Student Engagement and. Blog Tool in SharePoint. HTML editor.

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