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12 Cloud-Based Tools to Stay Productive | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

When I was at my old company I had a large outsourced team based in the Philippines. Yammer: We’re just deploying Yammer at New Marketing Labs but it is being used to keep our team connected so that we’re not constantly interrupting each other and so that we can stay in contact when we’re traveling.

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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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

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 can’t put out a request for help from an internal team and everyone misses the tweet or posting. It’s almost like answering 1 out of every 100 emails!

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The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager

Social Media Strategery

After all, you’re the advocate for the community, not a mouthpiece for the development team. It’s very much like trying to teach someone to use a wiki for collaboration instead of using email. The Internal Community Manager wears many hats. Yeah, that’s going to be you.

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Development , Social Media On July 9th, 2009, my Strategic Communications team here at Booz Allen held an unconference as an alternative to the traditional All-Hands meeting. We established the hashtag that we would use when blogging or Yammering about the Uconference.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 They said, “that’s what we want!&# They installed a wiki. And they waited… They soon discovered that their users weren’t actually, you know, using the wiki. Not every user base is ready to just jump right in and use a wiki. Government 2.0

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

Social Media Strategery

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Why isn’t anyone editing the wiki pages?) These aren’t trivial questions – people take the time to create a blog post or add content to a wiki because of the promise of emergent collaboration. Post your blog entry, wiki content, forum thread, etc.

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