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14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

Direct Marketing Observations

What we have here is the full circle of social media; crowdsourcing, participation, sharing and invaluable input from peers, consultants and practitioners of what works-all for the benefit of quick internal corporate adoption. 1) Create a Social Media case study of who is talking about your company both in good & bad ways.

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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 my own company's Intranet won any awards , we had people talking about how they enjoy skinny dipping on their profile. It doesn't work like that.

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Facebook: Iceland Constitution and Gov 2.0

Laurel Papworth

Iceland have turned to social media to ask the population to crowdsource writing Iceland’s new constitution. Compare to Australia’s Future of Melbourne wiki or New Zealand crowdsourcing their Police Act. Metagovernment is alive and well. Meaning, short viral spiked events, then over. 2/3 are on Facebook.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums.

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Enterprise 2.0 Reflects the Culture | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

If you think that the enterprise-wide wiki you’ve been pushing to install is going to change the culture of your organization, think again. That wiki is going to reflect the culture of your organization, not change it. Crowdsource white papers and presentations! Crowdsource white papers and presentations!

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Government 2.0 Camp - What I Loved and What I'd Like to See Next Year

Social Media Strategery

I saw very senior government employees chatting it up with very junior consultants, employees from two different companies sharing time on a panel session, and groups of consultant/government folks hashing out a solution to a problem one of them was having. What I’d Like to See Next Year The wiki. Better live-blogging.

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Can Social Tools Really Replace Email? - They Already Are! (Part II)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Knowledge Management Community Home Blogs Groups Wiki. Thus without much further ado, lets get things started; I will be grabbing excerpts from each of the conversations and adding further up into each of them. Visual Basic. Web Design. Ask a Question / Find Members / Invite Peers. Previous Entry. Can Social Tools Really Replace Email?

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