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Posted on February 14, 2018 by Melissa Drozdowski
Show your customers you care – download, customize, and share our free Valentine’s Day social media greeting cards: http://bit.ly/IPValentine Roses are red, Violets are blue, Here’s how to tell customers, “We’re thinking of you” Ahhh, Valentine’s Day, with its chocolates, flowers, frothy greeting cards, and over-the-top marriage proposals. Festooned as it is in red bows, pink […]
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Posted on January 24, 2018 by Melissa Drozdowski
Well, we finally made it – we’ve come to the final whistle stop in our Wikipedia Master Class journey. Along the way, we’ve discovered what it takes to get started, Wikipedia’s process and the various pages you’ll encounter; and the Five Pillars (and the Very Bad Things that happen should you choose to ignore them). […]
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Posted on January 10, 2018 by Melissa Drozdowski
John Green, author of that four-hanky tearjerker The Fault in Our Stars once said, “Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.” It’s probably the purest description I’ve heard of the conundrum that defines Wikipedia to this day. In the first two installments in this Master […]
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Posted on January 02, 2018 by Melissa Drozdowski
“A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.” – Clay Shirky, writer and social media theorist Welcome back to our Wikipedia Master Class series. In the first installment, we covered the question of how to know whether your brand is ready for a Wikipedia article, and the first steps you need to take to […]
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Posted on December 04, 2017 by Melissa Drozdowski
Talk about chutzpah. In case you missed it, Burger King recently pulled off a brazen stunt using emerging voice technologies. In a cheeky TV spot, the fast food giant tricked Google devices into reading Wikipedia’s article about its flagship Whopper hamburger…after some wanton editing by the marketing team. It almost got away with it. Almost. […]
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Posted on November 07, 2017 by Melissa Drozdowski
“The wise are who they are. They work with what they’ve got and do what they can do.” – Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh I don’t do yoga. “Zen” sounds suspiciously like a calculus term to me. But then I found Benjamin Hoff’s lovely little work, The Tao of Pooh. Being a bit pudgy […]
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Posted on September 29, 2017 by Melissa Drozdowski
You’ve seen a million clickbait headlines, just like the one at the top of this post. They’re catchy. They’re clever. They’re abrasive and punchy. They pique your interest enough that you go ahead and click through to that article you had no intention of reading. And when you do click through, that cheesy, clickbait-y headline […]
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Posted on August 23, 2017 by Melissa Drozdowski
Recently, much of the U.S. witnessed an amazing natural spectacle – a solar eclipse. In my little corner of paradise, we experienced a partial eclipse, with the moon obscuring nearly 94 percent of the sun. Yay, science! As the skies grew dim, a herd of nearby cattle ranch were clearly confused by the deepening gloom. […]
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