Great idea Dario - I occasionally schedule posts for known events (such as elections, major sporting events, or national holidays) - but breaking news - such as the Sydney siege - I held off, in case it looked like an attempt to take advantage of a tragic event for self promotion.
Having said that, the (traditional) news organisations do it all the time... Jan - that URL gives an Application Error? Charles / User:Chuq Wikimedia Australia On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Dario Taraborelli < [email protected]> wrote: > It would be really cool if we could proactively use our social media > presence to cover Wikimedia’s response to breaking news events [1], > especially given the attention WMF put on major events in Victor’s video. I > see potential POV issues with the choice of what topics to cover, but we’re > missing a huge opportunity when we don’t celebrate *in a timely way* what > Wikimedians are accomplishing. > > Dario > > [1] https://twitter.com/ReaderMeter/status/552873236598243328 > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > >
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