T2T006: The Facts About Wikipedia
Wikipedia can be your best friend and your worst enemy. In my honest opinion, too many people focus on Wikipedia to try and steer their online reputation, but this isn’t a realistic goal. Wikipedia was not designed as a self-promotion tool and the Wikipedia administrators are coming down hard on people who use it as such, and those who use it to skew entries so that they are either positive or negative. Today I spend a little time looking at the facts about Wikipedia – what it is and what it isn’t – and your best practices for its use and what not to do.
I am going to be away next week, but I have prepared a podcast all ready to go live whilst I am away – so if there is any feedback, please accept my apologies if I take a couple of weeks to respond. I will get to it as soon as I get back.
Have a great week!
News
Follow limits on Twitter
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/08/twitter-starts-imposing-following-limits-to-prevent-spam-your-thoughts.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/12/twitters-2000-follow-limit-raises-a-ruckus-but-how-many-people-can-you-seriously-keep-track-of-anyway/
Twitter SMS Limits in the UK
http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/11/19/twitter-starts-to-limit-outbound-sms-in-uk/
Google Streetview
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1043561/Googles-Street-View-captures-moment-drunken-Aussie-keeled-outside-home.html
The Facts About Wikipedia
Some really interesting viewpoints here, from all sides.
http://www.lockergnome.com/knight17/2007/09/20/wikipedia-facts/
http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/rockridge/wikipedia-white-washing-there-s-truth-in-facts-and-frames/
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/16335.asp
http://blog.bitepr.com/2006/08/jimmy_wales_on_.html
http://blog.holtz.com/index.php/weblog/marketing_via_wikipedia/
Resource From Across The Pond
http://blog.holtz.com/index.php/social_media_resources
Song
WikiPirates by Tom Smith
http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?BandHash=b5c5fa9f9d10d395fc9f53e573b0dab4
The beginning and ending track, as well as the mini excerpts are from the song Going On by Chances End
http://podsafeaudio.com/jamroom/bands/1913/
Image: quartermane
