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Tuesday, 20 May 2008

• How to create your own AboutUs.org page from XavierMedia.com
• AboutUsFrontPage - proposal from Igorberger

  Please take a look and contribute to AboutUsFrontPage proposal. Igorberger

• "Sites like Aboutus.org also tend to rank very highly around brand terms because of the authority of the domain and the on-page optimisation / relevance each page has."

from You Don't Own Your Brand Online...But You Can Own the Search Results blog post on SEOmoz.org by Glen Allsopp highlighting AboutUs.org

Monday, 19 May 2008

• Sk8.com.br shows off its new AboutUs Banner on the website (it rotates at the top with other banners) - nice work Uriel! ~~ MarkDilley

Sunday, 18 May 2008

• Category:Human Rights Category:Human Rights Activist What is it, and how does one do it? Please read my blog to see how I do it Igor The Troll Human Rights Activist blog Thank you, Igorberger
• Hugh has asked a great question, please help to respond: How does search work on AboutUs. Best, MarkDilley

Friday, 16 May 2008

• Wikia.com fixed their RecentChanges feature! Check it in action on WoWWiki.com AJAX RC! NickBurrus

Thursday, 15 May, 2008

• wikiHow.com had a great ad feature the ability to hide them. This rocks! ~~ MarkDilley
• Nick Burrus is determined to put RecentVisitors back to how it once was, a focus on the AboutUs community not a long list of advertisements. Please contribute. :]

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

• TechCrunch.com: Google Maps Adds More: Wikipedia Entries and Geo-Coded Photos

Wednesday, 07 May 2008

• Nice review of AboutUs: http://ambercase.blogspot.com/2008/05/aboutusorg-wiki-directory.html -- TedErnst (talk)
• Marshall Kirkpatrick writes in ReadWriteWeb about the new DekiWiki.com release: MindTouch Goes Polyglot, Gets Nod From Mozilla ~~ MarkDilley
• Happy 1 year anniversary of working at AboutUs to Asad and Obed! TedErnst (talk)
  • Thanks Ted, it's been an exciting one year :-) Asad | *~talk~* 22:43, 7 May 2008 (PDT)
  • Yay for Asad and Obed! Its fun working with you guys in the office. --Sa'ad ^{talk•email•chat}

Tuesday, 06 May 2008

• Use of UniversalWikiEditButton in default template of the new Dokuwiki release
• via Mashable.com PikiWiki Webpage Creation Service Launches Facebook Application

Tuesday, 29 April 2008

• Late notice, I know, but Silicon Forest has been the Wikipedia/WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week for a while. (The word "week" is treated very loosely in this context!) I suggested this collaboration a while back, because I thought a good article on the Silicon Forest would be a nice complement to the Portland Tech portal. So, I encourage AboutUs'er's to get on over and get to work! -Pete 20:20, 29 April 2008 (PDT)

Monday, 28 April 2008

• Clay Shirky posts an inspired story Looking for the mouse.
• Walwyn over at Flickr demonstrates yet another way to give credibility to a website by linking to its AboutUs article. -- Saad

Friday, 25 April 2008

• The potential of wiki & collaboration in general are the themes at the Web 2.0 Expo -- Julia
• What does this mean? http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016962.html -- TedErnst (talk)

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

• Column: Kennis delen verslaat concurrentie by Verne Harnish (the Growth Guy) on Sprout.nl. Avoid being a wiki-island. Why is this important? Read the rest of the article.

Monday, 21 April 2008

• Bob (User:Gamecock) has made some banner ads and a description of AboutUs for submission to TopSitesAmerica.com. Here they are:

AboutUs is a wiki for and about businesses and organizations, with info on websites and your community. Come see why the knowledge of many makes us one of the fastest-growing and most powerful sites on the web today. Anybody can edit our pages, it's Easy!

Saturday, 19 April 2008

AboutUs is search result for the term wikiflu! The link. --Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ] 02:57, 19 April 2008 (PDT)

Thursday, 17 April 2008

• The Wikimedia Foundation just started a blog, and they're inquiring about RecentChangesCamp. Steven | talk to me 15:15, 17 April 2008 (PDT)

Thought for the day:

• via Zdnet.com [1]
• via AppSpot.com We Need a Wikipedia for data
• via ReadWriteWeb.com Where to find open data on the web ~~ MarkDilley

An Award for Ward

Our very own Ward Cunningham got a prestigious honor for his technology contributions today (which include creating the first wiki). Ward received the Mayor's Technology Award for "exceptional innovation and vision in technology" from Portland, OR Mayor Potter. The award, given annually, was presented at the InnoTech Conference, a business and technology innovation conference held this week in Portland.

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

• Link to us [2] from PR-USA.net ~~ 75.148.54.233

Tuesday, 15 April 2008

• After our Stakeholder Meeting today, I stayed up on IRC and talked with the majority of WikiCoaches and a few community members about the way we envision the organization of the "WikiCoaching" work for our Paid Article service. and how that dovetails into some of our other "paid" offerings like portal creation. As a result:
  • I created a WikiCoachingLog as a landing page for interaction and discussion between the coaches and community, thinking that could be useful.
  • I added a transcript of the IRC discussion WikiCoaching 15-April-2008 if anyone is interested. It's a rather thick read, but might be illuminating to people to see how we trying to organize this work internally. -- TakKendrick | talk 01:12, 16 April 2008 (PDT)
• Check out the new front page Wiki. ~~ MarkDilley
• How about a story twist to organizational pages? Check out my revamp of StJude.org's page at StJude.org/Idea. I believe this can add a unique texture and feel to the page for when someone reads it, in an attempt to try and relate to the visitor. Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ]
  • I made StJude.org/Idea the final StJude.org page sense it wasn't opposed. [ Talk - Contribs ]
• 2008Qtr1StakeholderMeeting TODAY!!!!! --Simon | talk

Monday, 14 April 2008

• Gazelles is launching a public wiki (think Wikipedia) in partnership with AboutUs.org ~~ MarkDilley

Friday, 11 April 2008

• Green technology enthusiast, Jean Pierre de Lutz, and I collaboratively worked on the AboutUs sponsored page GreenBoatBateauVert.com, to create an informative article about the ongoing Greening of his boat Sean Seamour III - an experience he wishes to share with mariners from around the world who seek to make the sea a greener place. But Jean also wishes to bring the French community closer and wants them to actively participate in this effort. So, he went ahead and translated the entire article we had created into French: BateauVert ! Kudos to Jean for his initiative, great work on the articles, and bringing out the true potential of Coach-Client collaboration. Obed Suhail

Thursday 10 April 2008

• AboutUs mentioned in this post about links ~~ MarkDilley
• AboutUs Sponsored page SouqElArab.com is inspired by the idea of using WikiBoxes and employs one in his article. --Sa'ad ^{talk•email•chat} 05:19, 10 April 2008 (PDT)
  • This is AWESOME!!! ~~ MarkDilley

Friday, 04 April 2008

WikiBirthday cake!

Last week (25 March) was the 13th anniversary of the creation of the first Wiki by AboutUs' own Ward Cunningham. To commemorate this "WikiBirthday" the Portland WikiWednesday group had a cake at their meeting on 3 April. Members were asked to "edit" the blank cake by adding their names in frosting. (photos by JohnStanton) -- TakKendrick | talk 16:39, 4 April 2008 (PDT)

• SiliconFlorist.com links to AboutUs weblog post on Idea for making money on AboutUs. ~~Saad
• BrooksvillePC.com tags their website with the AboutUsBadge. See Badge for website owners page on how you too can let visitors to your website know of your AboutUs wiki article. ~~Saad

Thursday, 03 April 2008

• Using AboutUS to get a free backlink

Wednesday, 02 April 2008

• A great graphic on wiki at the Wikinomics.com weblog - Wiki collaboration leads to happiness
• WikiWednesday tonight! weblog post ~~ MarkDilley
• Rick Turoczy from SiliconFlorist.com notes Ward at InnoTechConference.com PDX ~~ MarkDilley

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