The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #271: August 30, 2007

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #271: August 30, 2007

Content summary: Dan York reports on the joys of IT self support, video and Facebook application development; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; report: half of Americans visit blogs regularly; the TUC calls for workplace guidelines for Facebook; DMOZ needs to die; verification of identity coming to Second Life; Hewlett-Packard’s CGM printer campaign; HSBC bows to student Facebook pressure over bank charges; PodCamp UK this weekend; listeners’ comments discussion; FIR featured in Podfinder UK; the music; and more.

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Show notes for August 30, 2007

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Posted by neville on 08/30 at 09:48 AM
  1. Shel and Neville –
    Responding to your podcast comments, I think that the Wikipedia scanner really reveals the fact that Wikipedia’s policy flies in the face of human nature.  It’s not reasonable to think that employees, including PR folks, will allow themselves to be wholly excluded from the conversation about their company. People are caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place, not wanting to violate Wikipedia’s rules, but unable to live with the erroneous information or biased comments that are online. Some of them will go underground, hanging out at cyber cafes and making edits from gmail accounts. It may be wrong, but it certainly is understandable.
    Wikipedia needs to recognize that this policy flies in the face of transparency. The scanner only further encourages stealth behavior. It is much cleaner to allow an employee to post and let the reader, who can easily view the history, decide how to evaluate that edit.
    I’d like to know when some of our communications organizations—IABC, PRSA—as well as the Association for Social Media will approach Wikipedia to work out an arrangement in which company representatives may visibly edit their organization’s wiki entry, but be strictly reviewed for fact and NPOV. This allows companies to correct factual errors, which serves the interests of Wikipedia’s readers. It also allows inclusion of the corporate perspective on controversies, which creates NPOV, so that readers can make up their own minds. This will lead to more balanced, fair, accurate and transparent Wiki articles in the long run.
    What do you think?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  08/31  at  06:23 AM

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