Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. I created the Paragon Software Twitter profile and a Paragon Software Facebook page and started looking for inspiration. How Do You Build An Online Community? That is until recently. That someone was me.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Director of Social Media In January I took over social media for Paragon Software. In the @paragonamerica profile I focus on updates for our corporate line of software and industry news that applies to the storage market. I started with Twitter since I seem to live in it.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Director of Social Media In January I took over social media for Paragon Software. In the @paragonamerica profile I focus on updates for our corporate line of software and industry news that applies to the storage market. I started with Twitter since I seem to live in it.

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Koka Sexton

APRIL 28, 2009

It was really an impulsive decision but I stuck with it so far and I am beginning to reap the rewards of managing a local blog for the community. The community that has been built continues to surprise me. I wasn’t sure how it was going to turn out. I setup a Twitter account almost immediately when I started the blog.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

It’s great that there’s a vibrant community of these experts (check my blogroll on the right for a list of these experts, all much more established than I) actively sharing ideas and experiences. I will add you to my blogroll! I will add you to my blogroll! I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 15, 2008

How do you interact with content ideas and experiences to build new knowledge, be it in a school classroom, a museum space, a community space or an online space? Etichette: elearning , google , lavoratore della conoscenza , learning sociale , media sociali , ricerca , social media , social software , tutor online , web 2.0. Edupunk. -

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you are going down the free route, use Google Blog Search, Technorati, and blogrolls to find relevant blogs. BuzzStream is a brilliant new tool that lets you gather contact names and addresses and chart your history of communications with each individual blogger. How about creating a Worst Practices Award? Self-employed site owner.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Microcontent, Social Software. I have been using Netvibes for more than a year now and similarly to the use case in the presentation I have tailored my start page to fulfill my needs in certain contexts (trips, translation tools, tech news, community and collaboration). Social Software and its Visual Presentation. eLearning 2.0

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The Way of the Web

JUNE 30, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← The importance of experiencing your community How much to launch a new media brand or project? Location – combining social graph with location-based apps and great mapping software. Against Google: Previous approaches haven’t resulted in great design and usability.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 30, 2009

Dear Ma.gnolia Community Members or Visitor, Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service’s worst nightmare: data corruption and loss. Most importantly, I apologize to all of you who have made Ma.gnolia a home for your bookmarks and community.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

This caused such an outcry by the Facebook community that several groups formed almost immediately calling for Facebook to change their terms of service back to normal. This didn’t seem to be enough for the community and the people kept complaining. One of the reasons we updated our terms was to make this more clear.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Dear Blog Comment Spammer, who just left a comment on one of my recent blog posts: I think whatever software tool or script that you are using is broken. my|our||my personal|my own} blogroll.|. Or, you simply you are so dumb that you do not know how to use it properly. Howdy|Hi there|Hey there|Hi|Hello|Hey}! Someone in.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 8, 2009

Once a dormant social site that I used only for aggregating my rss feeds has now become a full fledged community. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity from other people and it looked like most people did the same as me. Set it and forget it. Looks like things are changing though.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. Get the Community Involved One of the best things I did when I started a local blog was reach out to local businesses that I frequented. town and city. I do this for free.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 26, 2009

You’re in grad school studying Global Communication with a specialization in Middle Eastern Studies? Start a community of all others who are interested in learning more about that topic. Each morning my first order of business is to read and comment on many of the blogs in my blogroll. Go start a blog on that.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

I was searching in Yahoo for Accounting software that I had already bought when I found your site, I have to say your site is really informative, I just love the theme, its amazing! bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Discussions on Day Two centered around the right balance of policies, rules, guidelines, and best practices for internal wikis; the risks of open vs. closed networks; and the need for open/transparent communication between IT and the user community. Walton presented Booz’ social software development at E20 in Boston last year.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2009

It showed me people asking the tough questions , demanding more out of the community, and tackling some very polarizing legal issues. You’re also right on about open source software – it’s not always the answer. Guess what – neither is commercial off the shelf software. relationship.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We help people in need share their “epic&# true stories in innovative, creative and profitable ways to help them acquire the financial resources they need to create positive “change&# in their communities. I understand that many people think “We need schools and money for things in America.&#.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. Get the Community Involved One of the best things I did when I started a local blog was reach out to local businesses that I frequented. town and city. I do this for free.

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Koka Sexton

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Depending on how many other people are writing in your community, you have the chance of pissing off a few people. It’s completely focused on the city and community. Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Why local blogging is important I recently wrote about a new blog I started called the Mayor of Concord.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

As you might imagine, neither of these conclusions bode well for the long-term health of a virtual community behind the firewall. Lastly, be a community manager. I wanted to model the behavior that people could/should take when participating in that online community. link] A collaborative workplace culture? So, patience.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

No, I was just a strategic communications consultant who saw that social media was fundamentally changing the way organizations communicated, and I decided that this was an area I wanted to focus on. Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media My Gov 2.0 Heroes At the Gov 2.0 Expo – Who’s Making You Successful?

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

No, I was just a strategic communications consultant who saw that social media was fundamentally changing the way organizations communicated, and I decided that this was an area I wanted to focus on. Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media My Gov 2.0 Heroes At the Gov 2.0 Expo – Who’s Making You Successful?

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. There are MANY other sites like these and I have gotten great results from a lot of them. These are the two places I got my start. town and city.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 25, 2009

You might be a thought leader in your community. Either that or you follow your Mom and she follows you. A ratio of 2.0 or above shows that you are a popular person and people want to hear what you have to say. You like to hear yourself talk. Well…maybe the process is easier than actually getting a job offer but Koka Sexton dot Com: [.]

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 25, 2009

You might be a thought leader in your community. Either that or you follow your Mom and she follows you. A ratio of 2.0 or above shows that you are a popular person and people want to hear what you have to say. You like to hear yourself talk. Well…maybe the process is easier than actually getting a job offer but Koka Sexton dot Com: [.]

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. This is because CNN has mastered the art of sending updates about any news that comes across their desk.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. This is because CNN has mastered the art of sending updates about any news that comes across their desk.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 27, 2009

He said my background would be something interesting that the community may want to read about. The writer André Gensburger who is also the co-publisher for the paper first entertained the idea of talking with me a few months ago. The topic of the article was to talk about how I have adjusted post Iraq.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

They researched the latest collaborative software. If your goal is to create a truly collaborative environment across your organization, remember that a community like Intellipedia just doesn’t grow overnight. Start small and start with something that’s familiar to your user community. Enjoy the conference!

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 1, 2008

While writing that post, I started getting more involved with the StumbleUpon community and started looking through other peoples profiles for great sites I had never come across. Much love for the StumbleUpon community Many people on StumbleUpon do not blog anywhere else and use StumbleUpon as their primary micro blog of sorts.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 8, 2009

Once you start getting more involved with the Twitter you will see that it is really a community of people that just want to give constant updates to people that are following them. Twitter Etiquette As any community will tell you, there are unspoken rules of etiquette that you should follow. coverage here. You can read it here.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 26, 2007

Here are some of my favorite social Archives Categories Blogroll October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 January 2010 December 2009 October 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 Notice : wp_list_cats is deprecated since version 2.1!

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 26, 2010

Barcode Software Gov 2.0 bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0 [link] moncler outlet store Hhe article's content rich variety which make us move for our mood after reading this article. Heroes At the Gov 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

I encourage all of my fellows in government to find ways to meet their mission needs through community building and social media technologies. I encourage all of my fellows in government to find ways to meet their mission needs through community building and social media technologies.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Using MyBlogLog To Expand Your Community Quality vs. Quantity in Social Networking Why I Twitter (And Why You Should Too) The 4 Elements of Getting Videos to go Viral Using Social Media to Meet People How to Run a Successful Competition on Your Blog Defenition of Viral Marketing and Success Stories.

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