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PR Pros and Wikipedia: Can They Ever Get Along?

Social Media Strategery

All Wikipedia articles and other encyclopedic content must be written from a neutral point of view. It's no wonder Wikipedia has advised against PR pros editing articles directly. That's a big reason why most PR professionals have avoided Wikipedia for so long, fearful of the wrath of the editing community.

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Can Greater Social Connections Improve Higher Education?

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Community Pages are mainly good for Facebook’s attack on Google search and Wikipedia search results. Higher Education alone is a $400 billion dollar market, with Lifecycle engagement representing a $7 billion dollar a year effort by our nation’s institutions. Pages are great for brands to push out information.

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Implementing Social Media at Large Organizations

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To my surprise, when I first started working in the Intelligence Community, I stumbled across something called Intellipedia , a wiki similar to Wikipedia, on the Top Secret network on which I was working. I’ve had to endure a lot of contentious discussions with our legal, marketing, HR, and IT departments. briefings.

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Implementing Social Media at Large Organizations

Social Media Strategery

To my surprise, when I first started working in the Intelligence Community, I stumbled across something called Intellipedia , a wiki similar to Wikipedia, on the Top Secret network on which I was working. I’ve had to endure a lot of contentious discussions with our legal, marketing, HR, and IT departments. briefings.

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Grading Social Media

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I remember back when I was in college , social media wasn’t really used yet – the closest we had was AOL Instant Messenger and Wikipedia. I’m currently working on part of a final exam for my sci-fi literature class that involves critically analyzing a Wikipedia entry on one of the texts and re-writing it.

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Rethinking Public Relations Education

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How do you use tools like Wikipedia and other social media as breadcrumbs to find more credible sources? economics majors (how has the ability to share data globally and instantaneously impacted the speed at which the market changes?), How many sources are need to verify? What’s the definition of a source?