- connected on LinkedIn
- happy to be a FB admin; I agree that social media can be a time sink, but
at the same time it is helpful for creating events for
meetups/edit-a-thons, sending reminders, etc. We should see this as a
helpful tool for disseminating information and not necessarily as a
community building tool, though certainly that is a byproduct.
- in my experience, it is helpful to have a couple social media admins who
can post/share content; people use social media differently, so having just
one person in charge reduces the number of ways it can be used
Jason
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
In the good news department, we now have pages on Twitter, Facebook, and
Google+. I'm working on LinkedIn but it appears that I need some people to
confirm connections before I'm allowed to create an organization page. If I
sent you an invite then please accept it, if you didn't get an invite but
would like one please email me or search my legal name on LinkedIn.
My understanding is that Wikimedia organizations have found in their
experience that Facebook is the most useful for organizing events. My
experience with managing the SeaFOSS account is that I have a number of
followers of low local relevance but good subject matter relevance. I'm
hoping that WMF Communications will have an office hour sometime in the
next several weeks in which we can discuss WMF and thematic organizations'
goals and strategies around social media. As one of our board members has
told me, social media can become a time-sink with little meaningful
benefit, so we need to choose our goals and strategies wisely.
I will update everyone when I have the LinkedIn account active, and I will
order the generic business cards for us once I can place links to all four
pages on the business cards.
If you are not a board member but would like a few business cards for
redistribution, then please email me off-list. Please let me know how many
you would like and how you would like me to get them to you. Please
distribute them wisely to people who you think are likely to make use of
them such as librarians, instructors, and potential GLAM partners.
Cheers,
Pine
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*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
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