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Hi, I'm Steven Walling! Here at AboutUs I work to fufill our goal by providing exceptional content in the form of portals, as well as coaching and writing for those interested in having AboutUs develop a great wiki page for them. From top to bottom at AboutUs, I find it to be a unique and fascinating endeavor, and I'm elated to be here. The web is a complex place, and AboutUs is working to connect the dots between organizations to make the bigger picture clear. In coaching those interested in growing their business with AboutUs, I'm living my dream: helping others discover the positive impact of wiki.

Elsewhere in the wikiverse, I'm primarily an editor and administrator for the English Wikipedia. I'm also a nominal user on WikiHow, Wikimedia Commons, WikiQuote and Wikibooks. I was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington and attended the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. Now happily residing in Portland, I've written film, literary and performing arts criticism for Willamette Week and The Vancouver Voice. My off-wiki hobbies include Go, Tai Chi, and backyard chicken keeping (I keep a record of my hen's egg production on the wiki).


edit Why we need AboutUs.org: a case study

AboutYou, AboutMe, AboutHim, AboutHer, AboutIt, AboutThem ... AboutUs!

After reading a great news story by the WCF Courier, I went hunting for some rather basic additional information. I wondered what the full name of the publication was, I wanted to know what region they served, what their distribution numbers where, what their email contact was, etc. It took me 15 minutes of surfing to discover that there was no page with this all of this information on their site. Where could I go next? Other news publications don't do guides to their regional competition, an encyclopedia wouldn't consider a local paper notable, and Google gives me thousands of hits to wade through. The answer: AboutUs. In less than five minutes, I found an accessible rundown of the paper that provided name and contact info in addition to placing the publication in the desired context of its physical location and within its industry. That's the magic of a good DomainPage on AboutUs.

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edit 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)

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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!

edit Saturday, 19 April 2008

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

edit Thursday, 17 April 2008

Thought for the day:

edit 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.

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  • 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 Comment_green.gif 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 ]
  • 2008Qtr1StakeholderMeeting TODAY!!!!! --Simon | talk

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edit 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

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edit 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 Comment_green.gif 16:39, 4 April 2008 (PDT)


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