Wikipedia:WikiProject Social media

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Welcome to WikiProject Social media. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Social media and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

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[edit] Goals

  • Define the definition and scope of Social Media as both a technological and cultural phenomenon
  • Collect, organize, assess, and improve social media related content on Wikipedia
  • Add highly reliable, well-referenced social media content to Wikipedia

[edit] Scope

The Social Media project is intended to coordinate development on all related content on Wikipedia, including (but not limited to) articles categorized as Social Media, Internet Marketing, Internet Advertising and Promotion, Internet Broadcasting, Blogging, and individual pages under the categories Internet and Internet culture as they apply to the topic of social media, broadly defined.

The following main topic areas have been identified:
  • Definition of Social Media
  • History of Social Media
  • Corporate Issues
    • Corporate Blogs
  • Effects in Business & Industry (Communications Revolution)
    • Social / Interactive Marketing
    • Internal Communications / Corporate Culture
    • Media / Journalism
    • Public Relations
    • Crisis Communications
  • Personal Use of Social Media
    • Web Pages vs. Blogs
  • Types of Social Media
    • Social Networks
    • Content Sharing
    • Content Co-Creation
    • Tagging / Bookmarking

[edit] Guidelines

As we're just getting going, we don't have many guidelines setup. If you'd like to suggest some, discuss it on the Guidelines page.

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Social media: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:
  • Cleanup: Social Media
  • Expand: Social Media
  • Other:
    • Expand and clean-up Social Media
    • Identify social media related articles, add Category:Social media, and list in project directory

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. New entries go at the bottom. Please use the format:

# {{User|Name}} ''(Area of Interest)'' - ~~~~~
  1. Sd ca (talk · contribs) (All) - 23:27, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Social media-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
Peer review
Assessment

[edit] Templates

This article is part of WikiProject Social media, a project to improve Wikipedia's articles related to Social media. For guidelines see the project page and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ.
This template is misplaced. It belongs on the talk page: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Social media.

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