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]
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