Steve Radick
Steve Radick
Booz Allen Hamilton
I'm a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton. I founded and currently lead our Digital Strategy & Social Media practice, and blog about social media, Government 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and Social Business at "Social Media Strategy" located at www.steveradick.com.
Competing on the Field But Cooperating in the Office
It's not difficult to find examples of sports teams using social media. From the player (Gilbert Arenas' landmark blogging in 2006) to the team...
Mr. Popularity and Your Enterprise 2.0 Community
Let's do an experiment. Take five minutes and do a quick search of your organization's blogs, microblogs, wikis, and forums that are available behind...
Listening for Change in Public Health and Social Marketing
The ubiquity of social media means that just about every industry, from non-profits to sports to higher education to government – has hundreds of...
Rest in Peace, Social Media Ninjas
Let's get this straight – a few years ago, you read The Cluetrain Manifesto or Groundswell or one of the other hundred social media...
U.S. Navy Virtual Scavenger Hunt Charts Fan Interest
Is your Facebook Insights Dashboard filled with peaks and valleys? Do the same people do all of the commenting and liking? Do you have...
I Didn’t Fail the Test, I Just Found 100 Ways to Do It Wrong
I like failures. I like hearing about failures and learning from them. I like hearing that other people have made the same mistakes I...
The Federal Government Can Learn a Few Things from a New State Government Website
Have you checked out the new Utah.gov yet? According to the press release, the site gets 1.2 million unique visitors a month and...
The Two Things You Need to be Successful When Using Social Media
People ask me how all the time, "what's the best way to use social media successfully?" I'm going to tell them (and you) a...
Everyone’s on Facebook, Why Aren’t They on the Intranet Too?
In the fall I wrote a guest post entitled, "But I Don't WANNA Change" about using change management techniques to encourage the adoption of...
Insulate Open Government Efforts From Budget Cuts
To be successful over the long-term, Open Government efforts can't be a separate line item on the balance sheet With the recent news that several...
Seven Things About Social Media That You’re Not Going to Learn in College
I talk a lot about the need to do a better job of integrating social media into the world of higher education. That's why...
Just Because You Run the Same Plays Doesn’t Mean You’ll Get the Same Results
The Packers dominated teams using the Lombardi Sweep, but few teams had the talent to run it as effectively "That's easy – even I could...
The Many Roles of an Internal Community Manager
When someone in the communications industry refers to a "community manager," they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for...