EduWiki Conference 2012/Publicity and social media

Wikimedia UK education projects

Annual Conference — Campus Ambassadors – Student Societies — Schools — Committee — VLE

Please use the #EDUWIKI hashtag when tweeting, or sharing photographs through sites.

Publicity plan

Draft A4 colour flyer, downloadable as PDF: send change requests to martin.poulter@wikimedia.org.uk

You can help us promote this conference.

• Think of a relevant forum or community.
• Add it to the list below.
• Sign your name against a forum to take responsibility for publicising the conference there.
• Make a post, a page or entry in a calendar; if it is public, link the name of the forum to the posting or profile.

Events calendars

• Wikimedia UK Events Calendar  : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
• Lanyrd.com  : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
• Meta-Wiki : Daria Cybulska (talk) 14:05, 19 July 2012 (UTC) (through LiAnna Davis ldavis@wikimedia.org)
• Higher Education Academy : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia projects

• Wikiversity : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:05, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
• Wikibooks :
• Wikipedia Ambassadors area : already via mailing list
• Outreach wiki : MartinPoulter (talk) 10:39, 6 May 2012 (UTC) (mentioned on page about WEP, maybe it can be added on other pages as well). Also included in the first Education Outreach newsletter (August 2012)
• German chapter : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
• Direct emails to Wikimedia UK's education contacts  : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC). Reminder: Daria Cybulska (talk) 14:45, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
• Expert Outreach contacts: Daria Cybulska (talk) 14:05, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
• WMUK blog: MLP on 26 June 2012
• WMUK Twitter/ Facebook: Daria Cybulska (talk) 14:45, 19 July 2012 (UTC) via Stevie Benton
• Geonotice: Daria Cybulska (talk) 12:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC) via HJ
• Anyone that has registered for the Education meet up during Wikimania 2012 got an message on their WP talk page: Daria Cybulska (talk) 12:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Online forums

• Cloudworks.ac.uk : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
• Open Knowledge Foundation: Daria Cybulska (talk) 14:45, 19 July 2012 (UTC), posted on their mailing list
• WikiJOB (£200) - upon MP and RexxS approval: Daria Cybulska (talk) 11:04, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
• International Baccalaureate Linkedin forums: Daria Cybulska (talk) 12:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
• Women in Science (http://www.theukrc.org/contact): Daria Cybulska (talk) 12:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
• Character Education Partnership: Daria Cybulska (talk) 12:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
• Impact of the Social Sciences - LSE run blog contacted to post Martin's blog post. Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 08:52, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Online learning communities

• Wikieducator : Leutha asked to approach (Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 08:52, 21 August 2012 (UTC))
• Free University : Shared through Facebook group MartinPoulter (talk) 15:14, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
• Saylor Foundation: has been asked to promote, has twitted about it (8/08/12). Daria Cybulska (talk) 11:23, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
• Creative Commons have twitted and promoted (via Joscelyn and DC)

Related Societies

• Imperial Wikipedia Society: Daria Cybulska (talk) 12:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
• Learning Societies that WMUK has been in touch in the past: Daria Cybulska (talk) 12:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
• GirlGeeks: Daria Cybulska (talk) 12:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Related conferences and events

• Wikimania 2012  : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC) gave a five minute talk about EduWiki at the education meeting in the Saylor Foundation offices

Email lists

• Wikimediauk-l email list  : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
• Wikimedia Education email list  : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
• OER-Discuss and UKOER email lists  : MartinPoulter (talk) 11:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
• SCORE Fellows email list : Gabi Witthaus
• HE Academy subject and academic leads email list: Paul Kleiman
• Association for Learning Technology email list MartinPoulter (talk) 12:28, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
• Staff and Educational Development Association email list MartinPoulter (talk) 12:28, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
• The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education email list MartinPoulter (talk) 10:41, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
• Donor/contacts database on Wikimedia UK's civiCRM - anyone based in Leicester and anyone with an University in the address contacted, also anyone with '@ac.uk' email address: Daria Cybulska (talk) 12:45, 7 August 2012 (UTC), Daria Cybulska (WMUK) (talk) 08:52, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Press releases (July)

• Times Higher Education and others - Stevie Benton
• THE editorial - MP with Stevie
• Guardian Higher Education / Teachers Network - Stevie Benton with Daria Cybulska (talk) 11:04, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
• Content sent to many other, non-education specialists (as the story may run simply due to Wikipedia) --Stevie Benton (talk) 13:32, 7 August 2012 (UTC)