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

This is an Encyclopedia
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