That makes total sense for the audience of the reports, but if people already have an incentive to read about them, they'll likely seek them out, right? 

Social media at its best is about discoverability -- making sure that interesting things meet existing audiences appetites, but also pique the curiousity of non-core audience readers. Audience engagement is a ladder: if the most engaged folks at the top of the latter are already a captured audience who will seek out this information on their own, and likely read the substance of the reports, plus the blog posts, we want to see if we can pull people up from slightly lower rungs, who may just read the blog post because of an interest in cultural institutions. Or program efficacy. Or something similar... Anyway, </soapbox>


On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Fair point, Katherine - it should be said that much of the envisaged
audience for these reports consists of program leaders themselves (to
use the terminology of the report authors), and that the term GLAM -
as well as the #glamwiki hashtag - are established among them. But
let's go with your version for the benefit of the general audience,
throwing in an "etc.":

*T: Understanding what works: 7 beta reports on the impact of editathons,
collaboration with cultural institutions, etc.

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Heather Walls <hwalls@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Katherine Maher <kmaher@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm going to be the stand-in persona for someone who knows nothing about
>> WMF programs. I would have no idea what GLAM is! May I suggest:
>>
>> t: Understanding what works: 7 beta reports on the impact of editathons
>> and collaboration with cultural institutions.
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/02/beginning-understand-what-works-measuring-impact-programs/
>
>
> I was going to ask if "beta" is important in this context.
>
> Is there a #GLAM that they use? I know that they love their GLAMness, but I
> do think it's good to use actual words for the sentence.
>
>>
>>
>> FB/G: LGTM, there's plenty of contextual information there that situates
>> shorthands like GLAM clearly.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> T: Beginning to understand what works: Read 7 beta reports on impact
>>> of programs like editathons or GLAM partnerships
>>>
>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/02/beginning-understand-what-works-measuring-impact-programs/
>>>
>>> FB/G+: Read preliminary reports on the impact of seven kinds of
>>> program activities supporting Wikimedia projects: Edit-a-thons,
>>> editing workshops, GLAM partnerships, on-wiki writing contests, Wiki
>>> Loves Monuments, other photo contests (like Wiki Loves Earth), and the
>>> Wikipedia Education Program.
>>>
>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/02/beginning-understand-what-works-measuring-impact-programs/
>>> (using https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eval_report_cover_page.png
>>> as uploaded image - since it's (c) by a WMF staff member.)
>>>
>>> The team wants to emphasize the beta nature of the results, so I
>>> forwent that shortening opportunity.
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>>> Wikimedia Foundation
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>>
>>
>>
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