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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #165

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"Mitch and I share an admiration for what might be the best article ever written about participation culture on the Web, Nicholson Baker ''s The Charms of Wikipedia. The results are impressive and it looks a whole lot better than a poster or print. the charms of wikipedia. " (Hugh for Mitch). bitcurrent. george dyson.

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Effective collaboration with wikis | DavePress

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MediaWiki - the platform that Wikipedia, amongst many other wikis, runs on - is probably the best of the free self-hosted options. People will accidentally delete entire pages of content, for example, and panic about what to do about it. Here’s a suggestion for a tenth point: Don’t try to re-create Wikipedia.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The examples you gave of people copying full text of a story somewhere else is in the very slim minority from my experience. Josh’s examples relate to sites like Digg, which allows a short description, and FriendFeed, which is similar in that respect. This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A response came from a business owner who had the perfect answer on her website and directed the original poster to the website for a detailed reply. When I reviewed the poster’s account, I understood why. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately. They might have to spend time doing instead.

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Monthly Trends + 10 Tips for a Flawless Linking Strategy

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Example: Serious Eats links to a number of food blogs in “ Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Thanksgiving Leftover Derby.”. Example: Death and Taxes ’ “ Harvard Law Students Sue TSA ” provides only enough links to give relevant back-story and additional information to benefit the readers. Recognize guest posters or image sources.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

If you look at the stats on contributing to Wikipedia you find that there are a very high percentage of older editors. If you look at the stats on contributing to Wikipedia you find that there are a very high percentage of older editors. Most of the younger editors tend to consume. Most of the younger editors tend to consume.

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Your Organizationopedia - Make it Stop!!

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Intellipedia isn’t Wikipedia, yet sometimes I get the feeling government organizations believe that the chaotic nature of Wikipedia repeats itself on internal wikis like Intellipedia. Its users are those with whom the government trusts to keep secret information that could damage national security. Why recreate the wheel?

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