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Joe Evers
May 15, 2009

Expanding Constituent Engagement

By Joe Evers

City of Waterloo's Mayor is leveraging technology to engage her constituents



See Mayor Hollaran's community at http://www.mayorofwaterloo.ca/

Leveraging the same technology as CIOgateway, Mayor Hollaran has taken Blogging to a new level.  Creating an electronic Waterloo community, she has introduced a medium for two way discussions.   My questions are:

- will other community CAOs and Mayors catch CIOs unprepared when they ask for suggestions on how to engage the community

- can this form of communication reduce the eco-footprint within the community (although it cannot replace print medium, it can be another channel)?

- what…

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Joe Evers
April 10, 2009

Enterprise 2.0 Conference Insights

By Joe Evers

From IGLOO Software's CEO Dan Latendre's public blog:

IGLOO Software attended the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this past June. It was a very informative event, providing attendees with a snapshot of new emerging web 2.0 and social networking trends identified by thought leaders from around the world. Many companies stopping by our booth for a demo told us the biggest takeaway from the conference was a more informed knowledge of how these tools can create a more connected enterprise.

(source: www.igloosoftware.com/blogs/ceothought)

IGLOO Software attended the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this past June 2008. It was a very informative event, providing attendees with a snapshot of new emerging web 2.0 and social networking trends identified by thought leaders from around the world. Many companies stopping by our booth for a demo told us the biggest takeaway from the conference was a more informed knowledge of how these tools can create a more connected …

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Joe Evers
April 10, 2009

Social Networking for Business

By Joe Evers

From IGLOO Software's CEO Dan Latendre's public blog:

Dan discusses a view of how the Web 1.0 Social Networking is now evolving to Web 2.0 and corporate social networking. The key is capitalizing on the knowledge resident in your employees and yet consider and manage governance.

(source: www.igloosoftware.com/blogs/ceothought)

 

We’re all digesting the first wave of social networking—what’s been labeled consumer social networking, which made a household name of MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn. They’re the new killer applications on the web.

 

Consumer social networking is all about the end user—and having fun—socializing with family and colleagues in a very open environment, and with few rules. We’ve all used social networks to share personal photos, catch up with…

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