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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Daniel Phelps dphe...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Recently we've been having some internal conversations regarding transparency
for our hiring, recruiting and contracting. In efforts to be more proactive
about sharing this information we're moving
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 with.
Steven Walling
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:42 PM, K. Peachey
K. Peachey wrote:
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Daniel Phelps dphe...@wikimedia.org
[...]
I invite you all to see these data streams -
http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork/all or
http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork. Eventually we also hope to find
more ways to use this feed for recruiting and
Daniel Phelps wrote:
I invite you all to see these data streams -
http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork/all or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork.
Thank you very much for giving this issue some focus. It was definitely
needed and I think this is a step in the right direction. This particular
Hello Everyone,
Recently we've been having some internal conversations regarding transparency
for our hiring, recruiting and contracting. In efforts to be more proactive
about sharing this information we're moving to a system of tweeting short
bursts of announcements. This will be done in a
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