Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Education Program is now on Facebook!

-- Samir Elsharbaty, Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +2.011.200.696.77 selsharbaty@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Samir Elsharbaty <selsharbaty@wikimedia.org > wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We are happy to announce a new channel of discussion and collaborative > work. Wikipedia Education Program Facebook group > https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaEducationProgram/. Please join > us in the group and add your facebook friends who are involved/interested > in Wikipedia in Education. > > Here's part of the education newsletter post announcing it: > > Since the beginning of the program, volunteers around the world were in > contact with each other and with the education team > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Staff at the > Wikimedia Foundation using several ways including the Wikimedia Education > mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education, > regular meetings in which program leaders worked together such as Wikipedia > Education Collaborative > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collaborative meetings, > and social media website accounts for local and regional programs like Arab > World Education Program https://www.facebook.com/arwep, Czech Republic > Education https://www.facebook.com/studenti.pisi.wikipedii?fref=ts program accounts > on different social media websites, Armenian WikiCamps > https://www.facebook.com/groups/wiki.camp, Wiki Education Foundation > https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation and other similar > examples, While the global education program stayed away from social media > websites for a while. > > There was a growing need for an easier method for program leaders, > professors, students, staff and everyone to discuss their ideas, chat, > brainstorm and work virtually on their new projects. Social media websites > are believed to be quicker, easier way, and reachable from mobile and > tablet devices than other talkpages and mailing lists. The new Facebook > group will not replace the existing mailing list and other contact options. > It will work alongside with them trying to reach out to everyone who is > involved or interested in Wikipedia in Education. > > Join us in the new Facebook group > https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaEducationProgram/ and meet the > people who brought success to Wikipedia in Education around the world. > Discuss, work together and seek help from elder users and the WMF education > team. > > Meet you there! > > -- > Samir Elsharbaty, > Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program > Wikimedia Foundation > +2.011.200.696.77 > selsharbaty@wikimedia.org > education.wikimedia.org > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Samir Elsharbaty < > selsharbaty@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> We are happy to announce a new channel of discussion and collaborative >> work. Wikipedia Education Program Facebook group >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaEducationProgram/. Please >> join us in the group and add your facebook friends who are >> involved/interested in Wikipedia in Education. >> >> Here's part of the education newsletter post announcing it: >> >> Since the beginning of the program, volunteers around the world were in >> contact with each other and with the education team >> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Staff at the >> Wikimedia Foundation using several ways including the Wikimedia >> Education mailing list >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education, regular >> meetings in which program leaders worked together such as Wikipedia >> Education Collaborative >> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Wikipedia_Education_Collaborative meetings, >> and social media website accounts for local and regional programs like Arab >> World Education Program https://www.facebook.com/arwep, Czech Republic >> Education https://www.facebook.com/studenti.pisi.wikipedii?fref=ts >> program accounts on different social media websites, Armenian WikiCamps >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/wiki.camp, Wiki Education Foundation >> https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation and other similar >> examples, While the global education program stayed away from social media >> websites for a while. >> >> There was a growing need for an easier method for program leaders, >> professors, students, staff and everyone to discuss their ideas, chat, >> brainstorm and work virtually on their new projects. Social media websites >> are believed to be quicker, easier way, and reachable from mobile and >> tablet devices than other talkpages and mailing lists. The new Facebook >> group will not replace the existing mailing list and other contact options. >> It will work alongside with them trying to reach out to everyone who is >> involved or interested in Wikipedia in Education. >> >> Join us in the new Facebook group >> https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaEducationProgram/ and meet >> the people who brought success to Wikipedia in Education around the world. >> Discuss, work together and seek help from elder users and the WMF education >> team. >> >> Meet you there! >> >> -- >> Samir Elsharbaty, >> Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program >> Wikimedia Foundation >> +2.011.200.696.77 >> selsharbaty@wikimedia.org >> education.wikimedia.org >> > > > > -- > Samir Elsharbaty, > Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program > Wikimedia Foundation > +2.011.200.696.77 > selsharbaty@wikimedia.org > education.wikimedia.org > -- Samir Elsharbaty, Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +2.011.200.696.77 selsharbaty@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org