Bill Hartzer

JUNE 19, 2012

Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, has just registered 11 new domain names in the past 24 hours. Usually moves like this indicate upcoming projects, especially because Wikipedia does not have a history of regularly registering new domain names. voyagewiki.org. wikguide.org. wikicompass.org. wikidestination.org.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Wikipedia rules the waves. Or, maybe you use Facebook, because it’s just a fun way to keep in touch with friends? Related posts: Are professional communicators normal? Infographic: Twitter facts. Click here to start to receive my newsletter. PLEASE LIKE MY FACEBOOK PAGE. Related articles.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

AUGUST 11, 2012

Wikipedia rules the waves. Pinterest is proving to be a great social network for businesses to connect with customers. Here’s a stunning infographic that spells out all Pinterest’s benefits for business. Related posts : The social customer. Infographic: Twitter facts. Click here to start to receive my newsletter.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

David King , Founder and Director at Ethical Wiki , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to talk about the impact Wikipedia has on social media in today’s world, the future of PR, and how companies can update their Wikipedia pages to more accurately reflect their corporation and their message. Please Support Our Sponsors.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Photo credit: Wikipedia). Château Laurier, Ottawa, Canada. Seen from the corner of Sussex and Rideau. Here’s your chance to win a free ticket to an IABC 2012 Canada Business Summit preconference workshop. The summit takes place November 1-3 at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MAY 13, 2012

Related posts: Wikipedia rules the waves. This is a handy infographic that compares advertising, PR and marketing people against ‘normal’ people. It looks at how we use social media mostly, but also at how we behave at office parties. Are you normal? Hat tip: Adverblog. Content marketing is king. Women in social media.

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Dave Fleet

MAY 10, 2010

Right now the content from the pages is pulled from Wikipedia (if available) and from your friends’ updates, so they’re often pretty bare but apparently Facebook plans to enable users to add content in the future. The social network launched roughly 6.5 million of these when they first launched.

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Justin Levy

MAY 14, 2018

While many businesses are focused on their website and their social media channels, many often overlook their presence on Wikipedia. A company’s Wikipedia article, if they have one, often trades between first and second place with their main website. Here are a few keys: What it takes to have a Wikipedia article accepted.

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Justin Levy

MAY 14, 2018

While many businesses are focused on their website and their social media channels, many often overlook their presence on Wikipedia. A company’s Wikipedia article, if they have one, often trades between first and second place with their main website. Here are a few keys: What it takes to have a Wikipedia article accepted.

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Justin Levy

MAY 14, 2018

While many businesses are focused on their website and their social media channels, many often overlook their presence on Wikipedia. A company’s Wikipedia article, if they have one, often trades between first and second place with their main website. Here are a few keys: What it takes to have a Wikipedia article accepted.

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The Realtime Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences In Wikipedia. A system created by MIT researchers could be used to automatically update factual inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles, reducing time and effort spent by human editors who now do the task manually. There are so many updates constantly needed to Wikipedia articles.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MAY 14, 2013

Wikipedia rules the waves. This is a cool info graphic with some interesting statistics about Twitter and how French businesses use it. Twitter for companies infographic. Related posts: Pinterest for business. The social customer. Click here to start to receive my newsletter. PLEASE LIKE MY FACEBOOK PAGE. Related articles.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Photo credit: Wikipedia). Even better…do so with your loving and supportive spouse by your side. It’s a script we’ve seen played out time and time again with fallen celebrities and politicians who wish to regain their public reputations.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Photo credit: Wikipedia). Checking online reviews has become a normal part of consumer purchasing decisions, and so, companies are paying for or faking these reviews to gain favour and influence preference. By 2014, we could see up to 15 per cent of all online reviews being ‘faked’, according to Gartner, the research company.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

I 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. Put another way, now that we have a unit, thats 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television. consumption.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 17, 2012

Image via Wikipedia. A catchy phrase to accompany your clever pranks. As popularized by Sheldon Cooper ( The Big Bang Theory ). I just replaced your toothpaste with denture cream. Jump the shark a term to describe a moment when something that was once great has reached a point where it will now decline in quality and popularity.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 24, 2012

Red Pinterest logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia). There’s been considerable online discussion of the risks for brands on Pinterest ; there’s also criticism about the kind of content that is being pinned including photographs of self harm. This morning, Pinterest has announced.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

APRIL 14, 2012

News (Photo credit: Wikipedia). A couple of weeks back Ottawa saw the launch of a new local community newspaper, Capital City News. Produced by Sun Media as a grass roots publication, the newspaper is published in weekly neighbourhood variants across the region.

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Forbes Social Media

MAY 3, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur vying to be the Republican candidate for president in 2024, allegedly paid to change the Wikipedia page about him, according to a disclosure made on the community encyclopedia.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

AUGUST 18, 2014

Mark Zuckerberg (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Facebook users will have seen prompts to download the standalone Facebook Messenger app to their phones since April. Now, resistance is futile. Messages have removed from the Facebook mobile app.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Photo credit: Wikipedia). Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah’s sofa, Whitney Houston confessed drug use and Rhianna admitted her undying love for her brute former boyfriend Chris Brown. None received the expected reputational boost from the exercise. Lance Armstrong at the 2005 Tour de France. But Lance’s confession was significantly different.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Photo credit: Wikipedia). Google can now recognize more than a thousand different objects, which means tagging and search become a lot easier. Just type ‘sunset’ into the search bar and voila! All your beach vacation pictures will come up.

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Dave Fleet

JUNE 15, 2011

Marin’s current focus is the idea of open government – that, in the words of Wikipedia, “citizens have the right to access to the documents and proceedings of the government to allow for effective public oversight.&# Learn more about open government.

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Forbes Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Wikipedia's become the latest platform to introduce a code of conduct, aimed at stamping out misinformation and harassment.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 8, 2014

Bar graph (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Do you use the ‘throw it against the wall and see what sticks’ strategy in planning content? Do you post a Facebook update or pin a photo and wait to see if someone likes it or repins it.

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Harp Interactive

JANUARY 6, 2010

Blogs (WordPress, Blogger, Twitter etc). Video Sites (Youtube). Image Sites (Flikr). Articles (ezine, articlebase etc). Tags (keywords on social bookmarking sites and Twitter Hashtags). Press releases. Complaint Sites (Ripoffreport, Complaintsboard etc). Next…how to monitor all these platforms?

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Sherrilynne Starkie

JULY 28, 2013

Photo credit: Wikipedia). Canadians found the good old fashion PR stunt to be alive and well last week when the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), pulled up on the shores of the Ottawa River, just opposite Parliament Hill, with a hot air balloon…a much larger than life talisman of Senator Mike Duffy.

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Ari Herzog

APRIL 1, 2015

Wikipedia prides itself on always providing a neutral point of view. Maybe that Wikipedia page should be edited? As long as there is a reliable source without bias, their editors ensure the content is printed. Why, then, is the page on penguins lacking a 2008 scientific discovery by the BBC that penguins can fly? Spheniscinae can fly.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MAY 18, 2013

Hadfield Mission Specialist Canadian Space Agency (CSA) (Photo credit: Wikipedia). His use of Twitter is a space PR coup rivalled only by the antics of Landon Percival, a fictional character who goes to the space station after winning a lottery in Up and Down , the best-selling novel written by my colleague Terry Fallis. Astronaut Chris A.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

AUGUST 19, 2014

Photo credit: Wikipedia). The shorter the better, is one popular opinion, and this makes sense when you consider the fierce competition for readers. Tell a story in as few words as possible, and it has a better chance of being read and clicked. The sweet spot for blog content is from about 300 to 400 words.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Photo credit: Wikipedia). This isn’t a choice, it’s a civic duty. It’s part of living in a caring society where we all support and look out for our neighbours and friends. The same holds true for brands and organizations. They have a duty to support the communities in which they operate and in those they serve.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

APRIL 6, 2018

It provides information from publishers' Wikipedia entries, related articles, engagement metrics and more. Facebook is rolling out a new feature to provide more context about stories and content so users can decide for themselves what they want to read or share. LinkedIn gets only one request for member data from Canada's government.

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 24, 2010

The 42 pages long Social Media Playbook contains information and best practices on blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube, Wikipedia, Delicious, Flickr, Google Buzz and Geosocial Networks.

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Dave Fleet

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Should you edit that wikipedia page? Ethical grounding. Difficult ethical issues abound in advanced social media use nowadays. Should you post that status update under your client’s name? There are plenty of difficult issues that could get your company into trouble if handled improperly.

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Dave Fleet

AUGUST 14, 2013

Wikipedia tells me it was the second most widespread blackout in history at the time. Ten years ago today, the power went out across the Northeast and Midwest US and across Ontario, Canada. It took two days for many people to get their power back. Licks Hamburgers in Barrie. I remember exactly where I was ten years ago when this happened.

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The Realtime Report

APRIL 13, 2018

New Study shows the Surprising Power of Wikipedia in Science. A new MIT working paper released and featured on Wikimedia Monthly Research Showcase demonstrates the surprising scientific power of Wikipedia. These newly-created articles were then randomized with half being added to Wikipedia and half being held back.

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Forbes Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it's collaborating with Wikipedia, opening up its Covid-19 information resources through the site.

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