Sounds good to me. Maybe we could find an intern to just draft tweets /SM posts for Q3?
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Katherine Maher <[email protected]> wrote: > I would love to see us doing that -- I think it speaks to some of the > issues we've talked about internally around originality and the opportunity > to create a more consistent "voice" for the account! > > That said, I think we may want to put this on the shelf of "things we > should definitely be doing, but holding off until next quarter" -- given > how short staffed we are on the comms team, it'd be hard to assign that > responsibility to any one person at the moment. > > As we all know, social media, done effectively, is a lot of work (I know I > sent this around internally as a bit of a joke before, but it's worth a > read: > http://www.businessinsider.com/huge-social-media-manager-does-all-day-2014-5). > I think as a whole, we're doing a good job now -- there's a lot of space to > make it even better -- but even rewriting tweets like these probably takes > someone 20 minutes to do it well (read the article, find the nugget of > interest/pull quote, craft the tweet). I suggest we put this -- and the > public domain images issue -- on the list for great things to do in Q3. > What do you all think? > > > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Heather Walls <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > 2014-10-23 8:12 GMT-07:00 Dario Taraborelli <[email protected] >>> >: >>> >> @Wikipedia RT material? It’s based on WIkidata >>> >> >>> >> https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/525303032091652096 >> >> >> Heck yes! But I think we should pull way back on the retweeting >> (especially of our own channels) and write our own tweets with @ or # >> connections. Save retweets for people very separated from us or unique >> language (quote-like). Can we include the image in the tweet? Share on >> Facebook? >> >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Social-media mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Heather Walls >> Communications Design Manager >> WikimediaFoundation.org >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > Katherine Maher > Chief Communications Officer > Wikimedia Foundation > 149 New Montgomery Street > San Francisco, CA 94105 > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 > +1 (415) 712 4873 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0> Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] https://donate.wikimedia.org/
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