Community engagement: it’s a people thing
Last Thursday, I talked at the final 2010 CIPR Social Media Summer event held at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations. My presentation (below) was about community management or, more accurately,...
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Wikipedia ‘fixing’
The latest UK issue of PR Week features a front page story (with more depth online), titled ‘Fixer’ cleans Wiki entries, describing how: “A string of senior business figures have had their Wikipedia...
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Online community participation: now it’s more like 70-20-10
Yesterday I did a talk, Developing Successful Online Communities, as part of the CIPR‘s Social Summer series at the CIPR’s London office (the original speaker, Feverbee‘s Richard Millington, had to...
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Wikipedia, PR and CSR
The thorny issue of whether public relations professionals should edit Wikipedia is being keenly debated again, making me think hard about my position – both as a PR professional and as a long-standing...
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Straddling the Wikipedia-PR divide
The recent debate about the difficult relationship between public relations professionals and Wikipedia (see Wikipedia, PR and CSR) has taken a step forward this weekend. My fellow CIPR members and...
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Wikipedia: take an interest, but be disinterested
What do the following have in common? Crewe Alexandra midfielder Nick Powell Sir John Liddell, director-general of the Medical Department of the Royal Navy (1855-1864) building services engineer Max...
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Engaging with Wikipedia
Last week I delivered another webinar for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations on the subject of Wikipedia (following one I’d done in September). As usual, I updated my slides but not just to...
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CIPR updates Wikipedia guidance (twice)
At the start of the year, I joined the Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ Social Media Panel, and one of the first tasks I undertook was to help update the CIPR’s guidance on Wikipedia (the first...
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Mobile, PR and social media
As a member of the CIPR’s social media panel, I volunteered last year to coordinate production of a guide on “Mobile and public relations“. After persuading a few others to contribute, I wrote about...
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