Hey guys,
Wikipedia was featured on US news show 60 Minutes today -- seems ideal to get SM out about it. Here's some suggested copy. 60 Minutes themselves tweeted out this that we might retweet: https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/584878699763343361
Twitter:
Wikipedia featured in Sunday’s @60Minutes - watch the video here http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
Meet some of the "persnickety" editing Wikipedia with @60Minutes http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
Facebook/G+:
"In general I would say we're a lot of geeks. A lot of tech geeks. A lot of people who are really passionate about information." CBS News' 60 Minutes program spoke with some of the hundreds of thousands of people who make Wikipedia a reality. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
"It's about 100,000 people around the world, every political persuasion, every religion, no religion. You know, from seven years old to 75 years old." CBS News' 60 Minutes program investigates the history of Wikipedia. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
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Feel free to make up fresh if these don't cut it - it's pretty late on this side of the pond! :)
Joe
Thanks so much, Joe! Michael posted earlier about this on all of our channels but I'm sure we'll want to promote more tomorrow (in a "in case you missed it" fashion).
https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey guys,
Wikipedia was featured on US news show 60 Minutes today -- seems ideal to get SM out about it. Here's some suggested copy. 60 Minutes themselves tweeted out this that we might retweet: https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/584878699763343361
Twitter:
Wikipedia featured in Sunday’s @60Minutes - watch the video here http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
Meet some of the "persnickety" editing Wikipedia with @60Minutes http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
Facebook/G+:
"In general I would say we're a lot of geeks. A lot of tech geeks. A lot of people who are really passionate about information." CBS News' 60 Minutes program spoke with some of the hundreds of thousands of people who make Wikipedia a reality. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
"It's about 100,000 people around the world, every political persuasion, every religion, no religion. You know, from seven years old to 75 years old." CBS News' 60 Minutes program investigates the history of Wikipedia. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
Feel free to make up fresh if these don't cut it - it's pretty late on this side of the pond! :)
Joe
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Ah, didn’t see that! Entirely my bad :)
On 6 April 2015 at 2:16:54 am, Juliet Barbara (jbarbara@wikimedia.org) wrote:
Thanks so much, Joe! Michael posted earlier about this on all of our channels but I'm sure we'll want to promote more tomorrow (in a "in case you missed it" fashion).
https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Joe Sutherland jsutherland@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey guys,
Wikipedia was featured on US news show 60 Minutes today -- seems ideal to get SM out about it. Here's some suggested copy. 60 Minutes themselves tweeted out this that we might retweet: https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/584878699763343361
Twitter:
Wikipedia featured in Sunday’s @60Minutes - watch the video here http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
Meet some of the "persnickety" editing Wikipedia with @60Minutes http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
Facebook/G+:
"In general I would say we're a lot of geeks. A lot of tech geeks. A lot of people who are really passionate about information." CBS News' 60 Minutes program spoke with some of the hundreds of thousands of people who make Wikipedia a reality. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
"It's about 100,000 people around the world, every political persuasion, every religion, no religion. You know, from seven years old to 75 years old." CBS News' 60 Minutes program investigates the history of Wikipedia. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
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Feel free to make up fresh if these don't cut it - it's pretty late on this side of the pond! :)
Joe
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