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Webinar Recap: The Do’s and Don’ts of Maintaining Business Wikipedia Pages

Solo PR Pro

Last month, Josh Greene , author of “Wikipedia for Business 2021: The Rules & Latest Developments that Businesses & Communicators Need to Know to Succeed,” shared his insights on the ins and outs of Wikipedia in a webinar moderated by Solo PR Pro President, Karen Swim. The purpose behind Wikipedia.

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Steps for public relations, human resources, and communications professionals to ethically update its company's Wikipedia article

Axia PR

Wikipedia can be a blessing for many people as they seek information and conduct research. Many companies ask their PR firm to write Wikipedia articles on their behalf. Here are several steps PR and HR professionals can take to ethically ensure your company is updating your company’s Wikipedia page.

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How to avoid a conflict of interest when editing your company's Wikipedia article

Axia PR

Wikipedia articles are edited by volunteer contributors and are meant to have a neutral point of view. There are companies that hire public relations (PR) professionals to edit Wikipedia pages and ethical ways to make changes to a Wikipedia article.

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So you want a Wikipedia page?

David PR Group

Wikipedia remains a subject of great interest in PR and marketing circles. The site continues to confound even the most experienced marketers as Wikipedia’s notorious editors work hard (and even neurotically) to avoid being manipulated by marketing people. Wikipedia is meant to serve as an online encyclopedia. –John.

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Kirk Hallahan’s Five Types of Publics

Doctor Spin

Professor Kirk Hallahan suggests five types of publics. There are aware publics , active publics, inactive publics, aroused publics, and non-publics. Inactive publics: The forgotten publics in public relations. Public Relations Review , 26 (4), 499–515. Aware publics: Education.

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The Marketing Power of Wikipedia: 8 Tips for PR Pros

MaccaPR

As PR and marketing professionals – and consumers – we often forget about the sheer power and influence that Wikipedia has on our daily lives. Wikipedia is a permanent part of our public culture. All jokes aside, Wikipedia does have a distinct influence on the business community. Facebook relies on Wikipedia.

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The GPT-3 marketing and public relations practitioner

Wadds Inc.

There are clear applications for artificial intelligence (AI) content generation tools in marketing and public relations but make sure that you fact check. It’s a huge amount of data that includes books, websites, and Wikipedia. A definition of public relations generated by artificial intelligence.