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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

His second point got me me thinking about what I’m going to write about now – in what ways can the government use social media to make a difference in their day, TODAY? What are those things that they can do with very little effort where they can start see the value in social media? ″ del.icio.us

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

Social Media Strategery

IT departments are increasingly being asked to implement wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, video-sharing, and dozens of other varieties of collaboration software – software they may know how to code, but often have no idea how to actually use. As a developer, you should be expected to blog, tweet, edit wikis, etc.

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My Gov 2.0 Heroes

Social Media Strategery

Intelligence Community was using blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, and other social media tools to collect and analyze national intelligence, that was it – game, set, match. Development professional development prsa public relations public sector scary smcedu social media sports tools Twitter web 2.0

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wordpress Resources at siteground

Social Media Strategery

Much of my writing will dive deeper into this area – how and why is our government using social media internally? Two months ago, my company officially deployed a platform of social media applications behind our firewall, including tools like blogs, forums, a wiki, social bookmarking, and social networking.

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Social Media is Scary – How to Address Middle Managers | Social.

Social Media Strategery

so that they can use their bookmarks no matter where they’re at, and despite the number of “blue screens of death&# they see. Social bookmarking to save time is of much more importance to them than being able to share their bookmarks with others. web20 wiki Have This Blog Sent to Your Email!

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What's Going to be Your Social Media Legacy?

Social Media Strategery

What started out as just a wiki now includes social bookmarking, social networking, blogs, and most importantly, a culture of collaboration that will continue even if one or two pieces is taken away. I quickly showed them the wiki page with the info on it and everything was done. Ive also done so. Ive also done so.

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Top 1000 Favorite Blogging Links of 2008

Koka Sexton

I have been using StumbleUpon as my social bookmarking tool this year and I wanted to share with you all of my favorite links from the past year broken into categories. Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Top 1000 Favorite Blogging Links of 2008 I do a lot of surfing. Heroes, Villains And Everything In Between.