After we establish goals , one of the first steps is to create a blog strategy. use a template with folks I call the “ The Killer Blog Strategy Mind-Map For Simple Minds &# (pdf). We use this collaborative template as a way to build the strategy together. The Killer Blog Strategy Mind-Map. Download PDF.

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics.  Discussion: How/why does listening provide value? everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. Can’t wait! report.

In this post, we'll discuss the current glamour child of social media, Twitter. Twitter is impossible to ignore. In response to Twitter's influence, we have launched five company Twitter feeds, @ForumOne , @OCReport , @DataMasher , @Legistalker , and @ProjectSpaces (a combined feed is here ).

thought it would be useful to blog about how to create a strategy for using these channels. Before starting to create a strategy it makes sense to set a baseline. How can we use Twitter? recently had a chance to discuss social media strategies with members of our Target Analytics Customer Advisory Board. Phase 0.

We're doing this by setting up a social network for attendees, by blogging and twittering about the event, and by aggregating news and video and photo feeds from the event. Blog posts about session discussions and interviews with participants: And more videos on Blip TV. Tags: Strategy Watch video of actual conference sessions.

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. Quick scan - look who's already using Twitter: US "AIDSGov" Service [link]. There will be a lot of interesting discussions and developments in the coming months. tall order.

have been doing the social media thing for almost 4 years and I took granted that most nonprofits are doing the basics in terms of measuring ROI, but recent polls I presented on Twitter speak otherwise. What websites were your visitors on right before they visited your site [Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace]? Wrong. So wrong.

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I've tried to love Twitter. Everyone's Twittering and I keep thinking I'm missing out on something.  Twitter seems like a perfect medium for him. Twitter doesn't feel like gentle background noise to me. Twitter seems to provoke in me the social insecurities I'd hoped to leave behind in high school. really have.

We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. quot; The event, Participation Camp, was organized by volunteers recently and sponsored, in part, by Forum One.Participation, as we discussed it, relates to lowering the. We also saw some.