Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

2010-09-03 Thread emijrp
Twitter and Identi.ca (microblogging systems) are faster alternatives to the usual blog post, and they spread the word in an effective way (followers can retweet if it is interesting). Today, with the information flooding that we suffer, micromessages system and alerts are the only way we can

Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

2010-09-03 Thread David Gerard
On 3 September 2010 04:49, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: One might suggest that the people spending their day on Twitter reading Wikimedia's wikimediaatwork feed aren't going to be the best prospective employees. http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork/all/rss The back-end for such a feed is

Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

2010-09-03 Thread Angela
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: If there's an RSS-embedding widget that's up to our standards, it might be a good thing to put on the relevant WMF wiki page. It may be better to have a bot copy the content into the wiki page instead of only displaying the

Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

2010-09-03 Thread David Gerard
On 3 September 2010 13:38, Angela bees...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: If there's an RSS-embedding widget that's up to our standards, it might be a good thing to put on the relevant WMF wiki page. It may be better to have a bot copy

Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

2010-09-03 Thread K. Peachey
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that was constructive criticism. Personally I think that Foundation staff should be applauded for trying to be more transparent about hiring, even if you disagree with what they might be experimenting

Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

2010-09-03 Thread William Pietri
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think that was constructive criticism. Personally I think that Foundation staff should be applauded for trying to be more transparent about hiring, even if you disagree with what they might be

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Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

2010-09-03 Thread Daniel Phelps
Angela, This was exactly our hope when creating the feed or stream system with Identi.ca and Twitter. The feeds require minimal time commitment yet get the information out in an easily digestible format that can be used in ways like you mentioned. In cases where more information is necessary

Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

2010-09-03 Thread theo10011
I thought this was very smart Idea by the HR department. It would be much easier to follow up on for new wikimedians and prospective hires, rather than going through posting pages on the foundation wiki and the Meta. Its the quickest way of informing the community of new staff hires and

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Report - July 2010

2010-09-03 Thread Erik Moeller
Hello all, sent on Sue's behalf. We're working through the April/May/June backlog for historical completeness, but wanted to share this new report upon completion. We should be returning to predicable production frequency now. I'd also like to invite you to help get the word out about this