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  • A template to make it much easier to build and customize these: Template:WikiBox. Feel free to modify, but keep in mind to look at the "what links here" for the template to see what other templates are using it; any changes you make to the Template:WikiBox will also effect those as well.

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edit Recent Visitors Introduction

Recent Visitors [ Introduce Yourself ]

edit May 17, 2008

ConfidentConsumer.net Confident Consumer is a premier online resource of user-generated buying advice for online products and services. Confident Consumer is a tool to educate, interact and help consumers buy or sell products and services with confidence. Our network of web based consumer review resources are always FREE.

  • Aspect3d.co.uk specialise in producing high quality, photo realistic images and animations for architects and property developers. Services offered include; interior and exterior photo realistic renderings, 3d floor plans, architectural animation, site plans and photomontage. Visit Aspect3d - Architectural Visualisation to view recent architectural visualisation examples and obtain a free no obligation quote. I hope this is of interest to some Aboutus users - if anyone has any comments or questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch. User:David Humphrey - Aspect3d
  • withanxiety.com WithAnxiety offers favourable source of information for FDA approved anxiety and panic attack medicines with no prescription.

WithAnxiety devotes itself in high characteristic generic versions of the top selling brand name anxiety medicinessuch as xanax, valium,ativan and klonopin which treats anxiety disorders and panic attacks. Xanex

edit 15 May, 2008

Nick Burrus is determined to change RecentVisitors back to how it once was! With an introduction of yourself.

Sup! --Chrisjones101 02:53, 18 May 2008 (PDT)


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DailyBuzz [ Add Your DailyBuzz ]
Twitter the DailyBuzz!!

edit Tuesday, 20 May 2008

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

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  • 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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  • 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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edit CommunityStaff WikiBox

We are the [ AboutUs ] Community staff and we are [ Working in Public ] [ add your entry ]
I asked Sa'ad about this a while back after Ted suggested I ask him; I'd like to see this issue touched soon. --Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ] 02:51, 15 May 2008 (PDT)
  • Heads up on a hectic review DayOhPersians.com. I reverted non-review and added a review section.
  • RC is pushing 3800, so I'll be on that for a while today. Kasey 10:47, 28 April 2008 (PDT)
  • 28th April: Today Asad and I paired over RC, and had great dicussion about intersesting happening/things and Rollback many edits. We also had some discussion on whether we follow some methodology while working on RC or not. - Shahzad (talk)
  • Would like everyone to work on prioritizing CommunityTasks - it hasn't been touched for a week. :-( ~~ MarkDilley
  • Found this edit to our Values page, how are these slipping through? ~~ MarkDilley
  • Found these missed unconstructive edits, ouch ~~ MarkDilley 19:06, 14 April 2008 (PDT)
  • Ive gone through a whole bunch of templates and updated them with our branding. Granted not all of them are used, still, if any of them have been added in the past on domain pages, they should now appear consistent with the new skin. --Sa'ad talkemailchat 06:34, 14 April 2008 (PDT)
  • I'm excited about welcome messages going out as new people create accounts on AboutUs. I hope this helps more people feel comfortable diving into wiki by giving them someone to contact with questions as well as links to help pages. Kristina .talk. .chat. 15:56, 11 April 2008 (PDT)
  • I've put Template:InfluenceUsDown on a few of our help pages on functions that I know are currently down so that people aren't as confused when they try to do some of these things. Feel free to add to others that you notice or take them down as they start to work. Kristina Weis 18:13, 21 March 2008 (PDT)
  • I was curious what everyone thought about where to place templates such as no website and undelete given the new layout of domain pages. My inclination is to place undelete and no bot ones above the domain box and the rest below, but I'm not certain. Kristina .talk. .chat. 17:55, 21 March 2008 (PDT)
    • I suggest adding the templates above domain pages and having all templates use AU corner code for consistency. If that resonates, with all, lets do it. ~~ Saad
  • Here's someone removing a review that I don't think we should have allowed on teh site to begin with. [3] -- TedErnst (talk)
  • Found someone being spammy to the site, [4] - please keep an eye out for these types of edits. ~~ MarkDilley
  • since an AboutUs Page contains more than just wiki after the CompostUs, I have moved WikiPage to WikiSection. There were a few pages redirecting to WikiPage. Some of them have been redirected to Wiki Section and others to AboutUs Page. Please take a look at both these pages. Feel free to edit/change/revert. Asad | *~talk~* 03:02, 18 March 2008 (PDT)
  • 13 Mar 2008 - We need to shift gear towards Moving to Real People as CompostUs has a much more visible element of human involvement (InfluenceUs messages (with pictures), claims, etc). Lets identify areas which need improvement (in site messaging, in our working, and other) where we can push this concept. Brain storm here. Feel free to jump in and contribute to this upcoming task. --Sa'ad talk|email|chat 06:51, 13 March 2008 (PDT)
  • 10 Mar 2008 - Here's someone that's been making terrible edits going back more than 6 months. Special:Contributions/Rachelmiao One example from a week ago. another from September - this person has been moving pages and turning them into pages for different domains. How did we miss this? TedErnst (talk)
    • Ugh, that's depressing on our end. The person hasn't been banned; are we waiting for something on this? Kasey 12:43, 10 March 2008 (PDT)
      • I don't see any reason to ban. These are well-meaning edits, by my reading. They're just bad. This person needs to learn that it's easy to create a new page, and much better to do that than to hijack an existing page. I think it's just a mistake. I'm much more concerned about how we've missed these pages over and over. TedErnst (talk) 22:31, 10 March 2008 (PDT)
  • 05 Mar 2008 - I have noticed lately that we have been receiving a higher number of spam-y emails that don't appear to be for us, and I've been trying a few things. On blatantly spam ones (one jarbly sentence with link) I've been adding Template:PossibleSpamSite to their domain page and Influence Us comments for multiple offenders (example: GeriFueA.com). For the longer somewhat spam-y ones I've been sending a brief reply saying "Hey, this is AboutUs.org... would you like to edit your domain page... watch our intro video" and I just noticed today that someone took me up on this and went on to edit the squa.re page minutes after my reply. Kristina .talk. .chat.
  • 04 Mar 2008 - I added some text to MediaWiki:Difference. ~~ MarkDilley
  • 01 Mar 2008 - Mark, I know the video inside the DailyBuzzWikiBox has been bothering you, and you removed the videos. My take on it is that the DailyBuzz is where many people view this type of thing (not the WikiBox), and that folks won't be nearly as likely to see the video if they have to click the link to get to it. So, I've tried to make a newly sized/shaped WikiBox that would allow for video. What do you think? Template:DailyBuzzWikiBox TedErnst (talk)
  • 29 Feb 2008 - Does anybody have an idea why Category:FeatureMeNew doesn't show Abcde.com even though this category is there on this page? Also, this doesn't show the Abcde.com even if the page includes this template. Is this a bug? Asad | *~talk~* 04:42, 29 February 2008 (PST)
    • We'll tackle this bug on Monday, if someone from portland dev group doesn't fix it before.--Ali Aslam 05:09, 29 February 2008 (PST)
  • 26 Feb 08 - how did this one get patrolled? This is an extremely important page for us. the video has been seen 25,000 times in the month we've had it up! [5]
  • 24 Feb 2008 - Ouch added as an active member and not welcomed! ~~ MarkDilley
    • Mark, I'm not quite sure why this is ouch. Is it ouch because we need to change the way we do RC to make sure all logged in folks we see there have been welcomed? Is it ouch because the fact that someone tagged himself active member should have been noticed in RC and something done about it? What should have been done? Does the fact that he tagged himself as active member mean that the person doing RC should have done something different than normal, which is to say, made sure the person has been welcomed? Just trying to see your vision for how this can be different next time. TedErnst (talk)
      • It seems to me that one of our main goals is to engage people, when that doesn't happen with someone who clearly is asking for that engagement, it causes me to think about how we can do better. ~~ MarkDilley
  • 20 Feb 2008 - I broke up FeatureMePotentials:UnderDiscussion into five pages. This benefits our members because these pages now load very fast. It benefits us because now you can put the letter page you're watching on you watchlist and when anyone adds a page to your list, you'll be notified. I did add some pages today, so be sure to make sure they're being watched and nurtured. TedErnst (talk)
  • 18 Feb 2008 - Template:Undelete looks great now, but has a problem covering up part of the domain box on many of the pages it's on. Any ideas/help beyond moving it to the top of the page? Kristina .talk. .chat.
  • 16 Feb 2008 - Maybe this phrase is good for welcoming? "we have a page for your website" User talk:ReggieS -- TedErnst (talk)
  • 15 Feb 2008 - just changed the text on pages that are yet to be created: new edit boxes. ~~ MarkDilley
  • 14 Feb 2008 - CompostUsTesting is a task that we need to think about. What are all the daily things we do as community staff that we want in the new system? ~~ MarkDilley
  • 13 Feb 08 - Asad (not sure if others as well) worked on the Feature process using the AddThisHere feature, so nominating can be much easier. It'll be even better tomorrow! Yay! We also have some great discussion going on there about how to improve the process. Join in! TedErnst (talk)
  • 13 February 2008 - Worked on FeatureMePotentials list A-E, moved lots of 'em to last chance. --Sa'ad : msg me : email :
  • 13 February 2008 - On one of the personal pages, I noticed today that adsense was not working despite the fact that there was Category:WhiteList on it. It turned out that it was because this category was in one of the templates and we didn't have the functionality mark as okay for all audiences any page that has a template on it or has a page that is transcluded on it that contains this category to be marked as Okay for all Audiences. We have this functionality now but the question is, do we want to have this category on all personal pages? Thoughts? Asad | *~talk~*
    • I think, no. Personal pages that trip the filter will get the non-adsense ads, which is okay. If we notice and want to manually whitelist, that seems fine. Is there another side to this? TedErnst (talk)
  • 11 February 2008 - I intend to DailyBuzz this, and link to it from the domain pages mentioned, but don't have time at the moment. I'll still do it later if no one gets to it first: http://paulfwalsh.com/more-noise-being-added-by-the-bwdma/ TedErnst (talk)
  • 10 February 2008 - moved this discussion from InterestingHappenings to here.
    • Domain names not seems to be Adult BookFinders.com but it had adult information on its AboutUs Page
    • Not sure what to do with VertexResourcing.com
      • Not sure what you're referring to. Say more?
      • What would you suggest to do with it?
        • My suggested Edit, because I think These Domains (vertexresourcing.c0.uk, vertexresourcing.c0m, vertexresourcing.comm, vertexresourcing.coom) doesn't make any sense. I would be more happy if some body make it more constructive.
        • looks like there are too many categories and RelatedDomains
    • 426 Channels are available online see clickandseetv.com
  • 06 February 2008 - Huge edit war overnight on ModelsArchive.org. I locked the page for a week. Comments welcome. TedErnst (talk)
  • 05 February 2008 - TedErnst has been talking with User:Dzappone who is interested in helping build the Role Playing Games Wiki
  • 30 January 2008Neither Mark nor Ted leave this person a talk page message - that seems odd, what do others think? ~~ MarkDilley
  • 25 January 2008 - Kristina, Ted, Mark, Ray: How's the weather down under? (Me being in balmy BC) What progress with 'TheWantGot'? Happy and prosperous 08. Jan Steen (Kristina: sorry not to have explained; not quite sure about allowing it exposure at this point)
  • 23 January 2008 - Curious how this got missed - :-) ~~ MarkDilley
  • See DailyBuzz for other pages worked on today. They could all use review. TedErnst (talk)
  • Could use some help on HelpIndex. TedErnst (talk)
  • Please read PageRank and contribute to building PageTrust for AboutUs. Thank you, Igorberger
  • 21 January 2008 - ouch craigslist.org edit unnoticed for 4 days. ~~ MarkDilley
  • 20 January 2008 - I arrive in Portland on Saturday the 26th, for a week. TedErnst (talk) 16:26, 20 January 2008 (PST)

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  • I love the way Tak made ContentStaff so transparent! What can we do for CommunityStaff? ~~ MarkDilley
  • Ted - could you explain why you are playing with the test idea of redirect to No Bot Policy? ~~ MarkDilley
    • Yes, we have various levels of people being okay with us displaying there information here. Some people are fine with our bot scrape. Others prefer to remove their personal phone number (they don't care about the history). Others also want the history removed. Others want all bot-generated content removed. Others are still not satisfied with that, so changing the page into a redirect to NoBotPolicy makes it so that from one point of view, they don't even have a page on AboutUs at all. And yet this still allows the community to go back and change the redirect into a real page again at some point in the future, intentionally, be a human being. Does this answer the question? TedErnst (talk)
  • So we (I) have put WikiBoxes on all new folks PersonalPages for this months experiment. The idea is that we have asked people to Upload their image and take the WikiTour - now what? Letting them know there is community here and that they can learn from is a cool idea to me. This means that we need to tweak the box for CommunityNews aka InterestingHappenings to make it better and we need to change up our welcoming message a little. What do you think? ~~ MarkDilley

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  • Yes! in reply to KristinaWeis's email - "I was thinking in light of the new core customer stuff that TheWikiWay:WhatIsAboutUs might be a good page to tweak and get that out there for new (folks). Thoughts?" ( also tweaked the MissionStatement. MarkDilley
  • I did some tweaking of the titles and formatting and links, with Saad's help. TedErnst (talk)
  • Nice! :-) Obed Suhail
  • I like this a lot! Even before community members start using this for communication, we staff can use it to show an example of how it can work! ;-) ~~ MarkDilley

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  • This box has been added to the personal pages of each community staffmember using {{CommunityStaffWorkingInPublic}}. This is an experiment. What do you think? Feel free to move the box and comment back here. TedErnst (talk)
    • I love it! I think this box can be used to great effect for enhancing communication between the community members. :-) Asad | *~talk~* 09:42, 24 December 2007 (PST)
  • This box is inspired by the recent work on News.


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edit PortlandTech

What's Happening in PortlandTech [ Add Your News ]

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edit LahoreTech

What's Happening in LahoreTech [ add your entry ]

edit 7 January 2007

Would mobile phone customer service centers be a part of LahoreTech? Dimension-4.com is a Motorola service center. I am not sure if this would be a part of LahoreTech and if it is we should presumably add in all the other customer service centers for other mobiles as well. What do you guys think? AyeshaAslam 00:57, 7 January 2008 (PST)

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  • Mubin, Ayesha, I've written a draft LahoreTech iteration-end status report here. Add to it as you think necessary. -- FatimaRaja 20:28, 30 December 2007 (PST)

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  • I2cInc.com is a company that exemplifies the off-shore problem. It's an American company, the CEO is of Pakistani origin, and their development work is done in Lahore by another company, Innovative-pk.com which is also owned by the same people. Does I2c Inc. belong in LahoreTech? My view is that it does, but I can be persuaded very easily. -- FatimaRaja 20:17, 26 December 2007 (PST)
    • Fatima re:I2cInc.com, I personally think it should be in LahoreTech as it is after all a tech company functioning in Lahore. --AyeshaAslam 21:53, 26 December 2007 (PST)
    • Sure. Sounds good to me. -- FatimaRaja 21:58, 26 December 2007 (PST)
      • I believe if i2cInc.com is american company, and it is incorporated in USA it is American company. But it can be added to LahoreTech for its intelectual propreties contribution to the region, with a proper notability for its status concerned. Igorberger 23:53, 26 December 2007 (PST)
      • Igor, take a look at how I've tried to build i2cInc.com - I'd love input. We're leaning towards having it in LahoreTech largely because we thought the best way to approach this newborn portal would be through two lenses: (1) which companies would an IT person in Lahore be interested in? And (2) which companies in Lahore would an IT person elsewhere in the world be interested in? My reasoning was that companies like i2cInc.com, which systematically outsource development to a Lahore company would automatically be of interest to people in group 1 - especially if, say, they were considering working with the Lahore development office. Any thoughts? `-- FatimaRaja 00:05, 27 December 2007 (PST)
        • FatimaRaja we are in the gray zone heer. By your reasoning Intel, IBM, MicroSoft all belong in LahoreTech because they outsource to the region, probably have an office in the region. I do understand your sentiment, being that the CEO is from Pakistan, and you want to give ThumbsUP for the region with a few good companies! There is nothing wrong with doing that. We support our roots and affiliations, as long as we do it with good taste and without COI. So yes go ahead and add them to LahoreTech, just declare in the article what the company is about, where they from, the CEO backgroud, and their business affiliation to the region. Actually it will add merit to the LahoreTech, including this company if they are positive for the region. Igorberger 00:28, 27 December 2007 (PST)
  • Mubin, Ayesha, this is an experiment copying what the Community staff is up to (take a look at Category:CurrentCommunityTasks to see how it works). Let's try putting up any questions, discussion points and other items of interest here so we have our own mini Content Log. What do you two think? -- FatimaRaja 20:17, 26 December 2007 (PST)
    • I think this is a great idea. Now there is one place where we can discuss things :) -- AyeshaAslam 21:53, 26 December 2007 (PST)
    • Please note that all Community Staff have our box on our PersonalPages, as well as on the page for the whole team. You might try that as well. :-) TedErnst (talk)

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We are the [ AboutUs ] [SeattleTech] team and we are [Working in Public] [ add your entry ]

Post Your Notes, Suggestions and any recommendations for SeattleTech here...!

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  • Division of Work for Saliha in Letters Series to Work On:L, K, Q, T,
  • Division of Work for Ayesha in Letters Series to Work On:D, G, J, O, R, U
  • Division of Work for Sanwal in LettersSeries to Work On:A, M, V, X
  • Division of Work for Asma in LetterSeries to Work On:B, E, H, N and C, F, I
  • Division of Work for Rohail in LetterSeries to Work On:P, M, W

edit RolePlaying

RolePlayingGames WikiBox [ Add Your Update ]

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  • UberThemes.com contact updated and page badged
  • BirchA.com description updated and page badged
  • WikiBox added to Category:Australian Roleplaying. Should we badge that category as well?
    • Are you suggesting that we badge all the contents of this category as well?
      • I wasn't. I was suggesting maybe we badge that category itself. I dunno.
    • I think the category is badged already with the WikiBox and I do like the idea of badging all the pages like TedErnst and Kasey did! :-)
  • LyranTalPress.com description, contact added & badge added

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edit RealEstateNews

Real Estate News :: Introduce Yourself and Your Website :: [ Add Your News ] ~ See More Activity ~ How to help

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  • Rob B and Cristina Junqueira are REALTORS on Cape Cod. Very excited to find AboutUs.com. Looking forward to finding new contacts, referral business, and hopefully some linking partners. We have 2 seperate sites right now and adding another 6 in a week. Our first and most used Cape Cod real estate site (about 400 visits/day) is ForSaleByCristina.com. We have another pure link site and a bunch of other free sites that we link from as well. Cristina has been a REALTOR on Cape Cod for over 8 years, has sold over $50,000,000 in real estate (Avg selling price on Cape Cod is around $300,000). We would be glad to contribute on a regular basis and interact with members. Feel free to contact me anytime on my talk page CapeCodRob

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