Hi Fabrice,

that roundup idea sounds great; we should definitely try that out if someone has time for writing these up. Of course we would still want to retweet suitable material directly, too.

On a related note, we've also been talking for a while about using RTs more often to quickly promote good findings from the daily media monitoring work that Michael and Joe are doing. Michael has already stepped up the game in that regard recently, converting some picks into custom tweets/FB messages some of which performed really well, but there is still room for more low-level coverage via RTs.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks, Tilman!

I really appreciate your recommendations for when to post original content versus retweet existing posts.

I think you made the right call in this case, and I appreciate your retweet. :)

So did @BeeldenGeluid, which is doing fine work to support our movement as an external partner.

One thought worth considering for the future: blog roundups of some of the week’s most relevant tweets about our movement. This could be an easy way to leverage our social media work, to give more visibility to newsworthy events not covered on the blog. 

Onward!


Fabrice


On Dec 3, 2014, at 6:56 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi Fabrice,

I think the topic of improving our video content is totally appropriate, in particular for @wikicommons. As a general remark: If it's a project by an outside (non-Wikimedia) organization like in this case, a retweet is usually easier - before we heartily endorse a project and describe it as success directly from the official SM accounts, there should be some form of vetting beyond the organization's own statements. So it's useful if we can retweet the lead of the WMF multimedia team regarding a multimedia project ;) In any case, this particular organization has done projects before that were promoted by Wikimedia NL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2013#.22Wiki_Loves_Sound.22_enriches_Wikipedia_with_audio_recordings

I have retweeted it from @wikicommons and @wikipedia.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Fabrice Florin <fflorin@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Here’s another possible candidate for sharing:

Video challenge on Wikipedia stimulates re-use of audio-visual heritage:

This post describes their positive experience with a video challenge on the UNESCO World day for Audiovisual Heritage: over 400 videos were added to articles within three weeks. This is noteworthy, given that very few articles feature videos on Wikipedia at this time. Nicely done, @BeeldenGeluid !

I personally posted it here, if you’d like to retweet:

Let me know if you think this type of local success story is appropriate for our social media channels, so I can calibrate my submissions in the future.

Be well,


Fabrice 


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