Just RT-ed from @Wikipedia https://twitter.com/WikiResearch/status/525303032091652096
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, as Katherine said, this is first and foremost a resourcing issue. > Most often, the decision isn't been a RT and a beautifully crafted and > carefully voiced tweet of our own which also vetted regarding our > standards of respecting CC image licensing, but between a RT and > nothing at all. When I started pushing for us to do more RTs and to > invite RT suggestions from outside the SM team, it was based on the > realization that a lot of important or interesting news from across > the movement were simply lacking entirely from @wikipedia. > > Case in point: It seems that no one has found those 20 minutes yet to > craft a new tweet for Dario's link, and I know we are all super busy > currently. So I propose to just go ahead with the RT from @wikipedia > for now. > > And while I agree we should move away from automatic retweeting > between @wikipedia and @wikimedia (we already did to some extent in > recent weeks), I disagree about avoiding RTs of our own channels > altogether. When the subject is of interest to more than one audience, > RTs make sense, and also we should use the popularity of @wikipedia to > help our smaller accounts gain followers among their target audience. > Admittedly I'm biased in this case because I'm running @wikiresearch > together with Dario ;) > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:10 AM, 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 > > > > > > -- > Tilman Bayer > Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) > Wikimedia Foundation > IRC (Freenode): HaeB > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org [email protected]
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