WikiConference India 2011/Submissions/Use of social networks
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- Title of the submission
Use of social networks
- Type of submission (workshop or tutorial, or presentation or something else)
Presentation with Q&A section
- Author of the submission
- E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)
kiril.simeonovski
gmail.com
- Country of your origin
Macedonia
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Wikimedia Macedonia
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract (maximum 500 words)
Very interesting way to promote the Wikimedia projects is to present them on any of the social networks, where they can be followed by millions of other users. Most of the Internet users today are using the social networking as the most proper way to make their global outreach, and since the core point of Wikipedia are the people, use of the social networks as a promotion channel for Wikimedia projects seems to be a reasonable perspective.
The purpose of this presentation followed with Q&A section is to present the impact and the effects that the use of Facebook and Twitter as two of the most-visited social networks can offer to the global view of the projects promoted. It will also include example with the Macedonian Wikipedia as a positive experience that has already been mentioned at Wikimania 2011, and made effects of enlarging the number of views of the Macedonian Wikipedia, the number of newcomers, and improved the public image over Wikipedia in better shape. As a promotion with costs tending 0, large number of people embraced with its use, a proper way to promote project's content and to make notifications of the upcoming activities, the main point to hold the people interested is to update the promotion page with content that attracts attention. Maced
Rest of the presentation will theoretically retrospect the key tips to know when planning to start the use of social networks for this purpose. India as country with fast-growing number of Internet users and thereby users of the social networks seems to have much potential for progression in these terms. The session is planned to end with a Q&A section to clear the view to the future perspectives of this promotion channel.
- Do you have a valid Indian VISA?
I don't have a valid Indian visa. This submissions is also part of my application for a scholarship to the event.
- Slides or further information (optional)
Here are links to the separate pages for Macedonian Wikipedia on Facebook and Twitter.