We've shared: FB: https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10153451228923346
@Wikipedia: https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10153451228923346 @Wikimedia: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/631129568284442624 WP G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/100123345029543043288/+Wikipedia/posts/DAv5TsFCayP WMF G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108193079736330787108/108193079736330787108/posts/JS3Fs974g1r On 11 August 2015 at 02:10, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote: > I used "now" to give it a sense of "this just happened, so read it!" I > might be going too Buzzfeed-y, though... > > I'm fine with those tweaks to the social media messages. > > --Ed > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 7:32 PM, James Alexander <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> >> >> James Alexander >> Community Advocacy >> Wikimedia Foundation >> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur >> >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Ed Erhart <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm attempting something new and getting pre-approved social for a post >>> we're putting up on the blog tomorrow morning. Those with WordPress access >>> can view a preview, >>> <https://wikimediablog.wordpress.com/?p=41409&preview=true> or read the >>> original Signpost article: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-25/Op-ed >>> . >>> >>> >> Nice piece :) >> >> >>> I'm also wavering between the current title ("My father's railroad >>> photographs now benefit the world, free of charge") and the former title >>> ("How my father’s railroad image collection now benefits the world: the >>> value of digitization"). Comments on this would be delightful. >>> >> >> I'd lean towards the current title, I think it calls out to the reader a >> bit more (more likely to think 'meh digitalization sounds boring' then 'meh >> free pictures sounds boring' even if they all have them same outcomes). If >> you want to use the 2nd one though (which is still nice) I'd drop the 'now' >> Sounds a bit odd to me with in in there and rolls a bit better with "How my >> father's railroad image collection benefits the world: ..." >> >> >>> *Twitter:* >>> >>> - Ever wonder how your parent's train-watching hobby could change >>> the world? >>> >>> >> Hmmm, I admit I would probably click that but my first reaction was "no. >> not really... my parent's didn't have a train-watching hobby". Perhaps >> some adjustments to make more generic? like: >> >> - Ever wonder how your parent's photo collection could change the >> world? >> - Ever wonder how your parent's hobby could change the world? >> >> >>> - The heartwarming story of how one man's railroad image collection >>> now benefits the world: >>> >>> ugh heartwarming sounds so sappy ;) but cute :) LGTM >>> >>> >>> *Facebook/Google+:* >>> >>> - His dad's and grandfather's old photos had been “tucked away with >>> other family artifacts” and only ever brought out of storage “every dozen >>> years or so." Now they can be enjoyed by everyone in the world. >>> >>> LGTM >> >>> >>> - Ever wonder how your parent's train-watching hobby could change >>> the world? >>> >>> Same question as above. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > -- > Ed Erhart > Editorial Intern > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>
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