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Wikipedia Management for Dummies

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While reddit and Wikipedia are probably two of the most influential and powerful media platforms online today, they’re also the most intimidating because so many of us in the PR and marketing world have been not only burned but sent home tarred and feathers, never to go anywhere close to either of these sites ever again.

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Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet

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Photo credit: Wikipedia. Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Pinterest all had their days of glory. You may no longer remember this, but back in 2006, wikis were all the rage. Why does that happen? Williams was published.

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The intranet social garden and quantum mechanics

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How can a social platform based on blogs, wikis, discussion forums and status updates succeed under those conditions? According to Wikipedia : Classical physics explains matter and energy at the macroscopic level of the scale familiar to human experience, including the behavior of astronomical bodies.

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Hindsight 20/20 Series: 4. Your social business platform as a shopping mall

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Boxing Day at Eaton Center (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Wikis: they showed the potential behind a more “social” model of authorship, and Wikipedia is still proof that the model can be very effective under ideal conditions. Even wikis, who are supposed to be social, are mostly one-trick ponies.

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The infancy of social technologies

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Image via Wikipedia. Taking a step back, it becomes clear that we came a long way since the days where Wikipedia sounded like a misplaced hippie idea transplanted from the 60s. by Aaron Kim. But make no mistake: we are still witnessing the infancy of social technologies, and there is much more to come.

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Why internal Social Business Platforms matter

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Image via Wikipedia. There’s also an argument to be made that in the consumer Internet, knowledge is also handled efficiently: sites like WordPress, Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Quora and Pinterest provide magnificent mechanisms to capture, filter/curate and distribute knowledge efficiently.

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We don’t need a social media ROI model

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Image via Wikipedia. ” Over the last few years, many in the social media space have been on a quest to find the perfect ROI model for blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, social networking, social bookmarking and other animals in the ever growing Social Business zoo. ” In a way, they are all right and all wrong at the same time.