Social Media Solutions

Ambit provides mission-driven and communications-oriented services designed to drive target audiences and key stakeholders to engage in behaviors that support a program's or organization's goals. Our services range from strategic and conceptual planning to branding support and marketing collateral development. As a component of our broader Communications offering, Ambit has the ability to customize and deploy Social Media solutions for your agency to affect many of the benefits other agencies are realizing in the age of Web 2.0:

Flatten classic communications hierarchy by erasing boundary between producers and consumers and increasing collaboration around emerging issues
Proliferate new and existing content to stakeholders
Provide a forum for groups to continuously develop responses to questions and issues

Below are a few examples of the support we are currently providing to customers to increase their own sphere of influence through focused outreach efforts.

Department of Defense, Business Transformation Agency

Directly supported the development of agency-wide policies governing use of Social Media for organizational purposes
Developed wiki on Intellipedia, enabling agency-wide collaboration on social media policies
Enabled the replacement of a stagnant "newsletter"-type dissemination of information with an internal blog that improves information sharing, two-way communication and collaboration, and enhances mission integration

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Chief Information Officer

Provided market research and consultation in support of COTS wiki software selection
Designed and implemented site architecture for organizational wiki
Developed instructional material and provided user training support
Drafted conceptual Mission Needs Statement, Exhibit 300, Concept Management Plan, and Alternatives Analysis for enterprise Web 2.0 initiative
Created non-major Web 2.0 investment for USDA's BY 2011 Exhibit 53 submission
Developed a concept paper on the use of Twitter in disaster communications.

Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Acquisition and Logistics

Using Social Media to support VA's interaction with Supplier Community and improve supplier relations through increased collaboration.
Promoting participation in VA's supplier relationship transformation initiative through communities on Govloop and Twitter
Use of Webinars to gain live question & answer feedback from the supplier community to VA executive leadership

Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection

In support of CBP's Acquisition Improvement Initiative (AI2), Ambit is using Social Media to help the agency collaborate with other acquisition organizations throughout the federal government to identify and leverage best practices
We are collecting data from and promoting use of social media tools such as the as the Acquisition 2.0 group on Govloop, the GSA BetterBuy Project, and Twitter.