Communications

Weekly Round-up December 02, 2011

Gadi Ben-Yehuda On December 07, GSA is presenting a Webinar on social media metrics that I will be moderating. Here are some of the articles that I’m likely to touch on: Make it like a game. As the Apps for Healthy Kids site can attest, people are more likely to do the things they shouldRead… Read more »

New Zealand government social media guidance

More examples of advice and guidance on using social media tools in government, this time from New Zealand. The first bit is the High Level Guidance, described as helping: organisations when they are trying to decide if they should use social media in a communications, community engagement, or a policy consultation context. It is intendedRead… Read more »

Is Black Friday Really Just “Occupy Wal-Mart?”

Tweet This commercial creeps me out in ways I can’t even begin to describe. I just don’t get Black Friday. I’ve tried to understand but it’s just not happening. Somehow the wonderful holiday of Thanksgiving, designed for us to spend time with family and friends and simply relax, has been unceremoniously cut short because peopleRead… Read more »

GovLaunch: Announcing the Federal Social Media Index

Today Expert Labs released their Federal Social Media Index (FSMI). According to the FSMI website, “We rank which federal agencies are doing the best job of engaging on social media through Twitter (and soon, through Facebook and Google+).” Expert Labs says they are constantly looking for ways to improve their methodology and improve how FSMIRead… Read more »

Mission, Tool, Metrics, Teach: Now a Workshop!

First, my social media mantra was something I said and tweeted: mission, tool, metrics, teach. Then it was a blog post. Now I’ve created a workshop that I delivered recently at a conference. It combines several other presentations and things I’ve said and written over the past few years. At the conference, people sat 4-5Read… Read more »

Carrier IQ Invades Privacy

Android has been plagued by malware, security vulnerabilities, and now, privacy issues. It started with HTC’s logging application which over-zealously logged aspects of phone use in insecure ways which made that data accessible by any application, and more recently has come to a head with the discovery of the carrier IQ application. The Carrier IQRead… Read more »

Motivation Inspiration

By Robyn Bage Managers and executives often ponder new ways to motivate employees to be more engaged in the workplace or more productive. I, too, have struggled to be creative and effective in motivating my staff. This is particularly difficult in our age diverse, multi-cultural, dual-gendered, and otherwise multi-faceted work environment. Of course, the triedRead… Read more »