by Andrea Di Maio | January 9, 2012 | 11 Comments
During the Christmas break I have been reading “The Social Organization”, an excellent book written by two distinguished colleagues of mine, Anthony Bradley and Mark McDonald, which looks at how organizations in different industry sectors can take advantage from social media more strategically than many do today. The book leverages a lot of Gartner research [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: social media
by Andrea Di Maio | November 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
My busy first day at the Gartner European Symposium in Barcelona ended with a quite interesting round table with a few clients on the topic of social media in government. Almost immediately we ended up discussing about the distinction between internal and external use of social media. One attendee shared that, despite the success their [...]
Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: social media, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 7, 2011 | Comments Off
I just ran a workshop at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona about the use of social media. In the workshop I raised for questions: Do your social media policies cover different roles and how? – This was meant to discuss whether participants’ organizations have only a blanket social media policy that applies to all employees, [...]
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Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, social media, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | October 20, 2011 | Comments Off
As the end of the largest Gartner Symposium ever is approaching, I thought I would like to share some of the take aways from interacting with hundreds of government clients over the last four and a half days: Smart Government Serious budgetary concerns are percolating through US federal government agencies and, while state and local [...]
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Category: cloud smart government web 2.0 in government Tags: social media, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | October 13, 2011 | Comments Off
Today I spent my morning at the IAB Forum, a large conference and exhibition that is held in Milan with companies and professionals in the advertisement and communication business. Quite a different crowd than what I am used to as a government analyst. I was scheduled to speak after the Milan city manager, and a [...]
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Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | September 20, 2011 | 1 Comment
As social networks become increasingly important for business and social relationships, we have to decide who to trust, how to identify authoritative sources, and how to distill independent from biased opinions, background noise from valuable nuggets. Whereas there is no such thing as a widely recognized and “standard” sets of metrics, people use metrics such [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: social media
by Andrea Di Maio | May 23, 2011 | 6 Comments
Last week I met the CIO of a government agency and we discussed about their current plans for internal collaboration, based on the deployment of a particular commercial solution. He seemed to have quite clear ideas about investment, deployment and sustainability of that initiative, for which he said he had users queuing for over 50 [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: collaboration, government 2.0, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | April 11, 2011 | 3 Comments
Yesterday a well-reputed Italian journalist aired a program highlighting the risks of the Internet and social networking, interviewing experts from service providers, law firms, consultancies about issues such as phishing, security, stalking, information leaks, and so forth. (see link to video, in Italian). I did not follow the program until when I read an outcry [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | March 17, 2011 | Comments Off
A few hours ago I was copied on an email from one of my sales colleagues in Japan who was asking for me to visit clients in Tokyo in late May. Actually I am already fully booked throughout June, so I was glad I did not have to say no for any other reason than [...]
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Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: Japan, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | January 14, 2011 | 15 Comments
By dismantling their social media office (see article on Wired), which had been in place for two years, and making social media the responsibility of every member of his staff, the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs Douglas Wilson shows how the future of social media will look like. No more specialized offices, no [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Defense, social media
