started telling her about the Wikipedia article on Pluto. You may remember that Pluto got kicked out of the planet club a couple of years ago, so all of a sudden there was all of this activity on Wikipedia. So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. Just to pick one example, one Im in love with, but its tiny. Buy the book. MORE >>

For example, retweeting a well researched and written article is a much more valuable action than retweeting “I love my cat!” One of the means for accomplishing this is giving weight to Wikipedia pages. This is outstanding news for any business that has accumulated experience and a body of knowledge that they are actively sharing on the web. One of the more notable examples is that of a talented marketing executive who lost an opportunity because his Klout score was artificially low due only to his ignorance of Klout. That has now changed. MORE >>

Wikipedia. Showing the example of how to work agendas through a wiki vs. email! Stewart Mader compares organizational and public wikis (Wikipedia vs. enterprise wiki), offers several examples of organizations actively using wikis today, and outlines the main business drivers and use cases inside organizations. About. Services. Contact. Archives. 21 days of wiki adoption. 9rules. adsense. advertising. analysis. Apple. Atlassian. AusWeb07. Barack Obama. better meetings. BlackBerry. blip.tv. boris mann. business. CeBIT. change. change management. Clay Shirky. MORE >>

The Klout Score is a number from 1-100 that represents the aggregation of multiple pieces of data about your social network activity. Wikipedia. Page Importance:  Measured by applying a PageRank algorithm against the Wikipedia page graph. For example, generating 100 retweets from 10 tweets will contribute more to your Score than generating 100 retweets from 1,000 tweets. We know how important it is to maintain the integrity of the Klout Score, so we closely monitor activity across the signals we measure for inauthentic behaviors. Score Signals. Twitter. Klout. MORE >>

This is a pretty good deconstruction of how we actively curate content for you here on SocialFishing, and it’s a useful way to think about particular kinds of posts you could be posting on your association or nonprofit blog relative to your industry topics. Let’s run through them quickly, and I’ll point to an example of each from this blog. Here’s another example. Distillation – The idea behind distillation is that adding a layer of simplicity is one of the most valuable activities that someone can undertake. We like them a lot. MORE >>