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At our heart, we are all about Wiki.  And wiki is all about a community working together. Collaboration is a nice word, but what does it mean to you?  What does it mean to us?
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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!''
 
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Collaboration is AboutUs.  All of us working together towards a common goalThat goal is your success and our success is ours. We, the royal we, need you for the success of you, AboutUs and others.
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| Content = While we have many non-wiki ways to connect with folks in the community below, you can certainly connect with people without ever leaving the wiki[[Talk page]]s are for leaving other people messages. Specifically you can leave a message or question for one of our [[:Category:ActiveCommunityMember|active community members or staff]].
 
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We know we don't have all the answers. We understand that you don't have them either. By working together, we hope to find paths towards mutual success and understanding.  And that's where you come in.  Your knowledge, ideas and questions are valuableTo you, to us, to others.  We're always looking for people to help us think, decide and learn.  Everyone has something to add, and we want to hear it!  We're always looking for people to help out. You might not think you have much to offer, but we know you do!
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| Content = Join the AboutUs [http://blog.aboutus.org/2009/12/14/chat-with-aboutus/ chat room]. It is an older internet technology (Internet Relay Chat [[IRC]]), but it allows folks to interact with each other in real time and we like thatIf someone is online - you can type 'hello' to get their attention.
 
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| Content = <div style="float:right;">[http://www.twitter.com/AboutUs http://www.aboutus.org/Special/image/full/FollowMeTwitterBadge.png]</div> Twitter is a good way to connect publicly. Many AboutUs community folks tweet and you can find AboutUs' company {{Twitter2|AboutUs}} account too.
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| Content = <div style="float:right;"> [http://www.facebook.com/AboutUs.org/ http://www.aboutus.org/Special/image/full/Find_us_on_facebook_badge.gif]</div>Connect with folks on the {{Facebook2|url=http://www.facebook.com/AboutUs.org}} fan page.  AboutUs often makes announcements, post photos or asks questions here. ''We don't often use our [http://www.myspace.com/aboutuswiki MySpace account] but if you do, let us know!''}}
 
 
 
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| Content = Our {{GetSatisfaction|url=http://getsatisfaction.com/aboutus}} is another public way for people to post questions, problems, ideas and praise for AboutUs.org. You can answer other peoples questions there as well.
 
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| Content = Yes, we've got a [http://blog.aboutus.org/ blog].  And someone in our company insists on calling it a [http://blog.aboutus.org/ weblog], asserting that 'blog' is just an ugly word.  {{RSS|url=http://feeds.feedburner.com/AboutUsWikiWeblog}}
 
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| Content = We see lots of websites that have no contact information, here is ours: [[Image:1-800-AboutUs_Simple_92px.png]]
 
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| Content =  Every few months AboutUs sends out the skinny of what's new and exciting on AboutUs.org since the last newsletter. '''[http://bit.ly/AboutUsNews  Sign up to receive our future newsletters]'''. You can view [[newsletter|previous newsletters]].
 
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| Content =  Friends don't let friends mail snails.  However, if you'd like to support the postal service, put your note in a box of homemade cookies and send to: <br/>AboutUs <br/>107 SE Washington Ste 520<br /> Portland, Oregon 97214<br />United States of America
 
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Latest revision as of 04:13, 6 November 2013

At our heart, we are all about Wiki. And wiki is all about a community working together. Collaboration is a nice word, but what does it mean to you? What does it mean to us?

Collaboration is AboutUs. All of us working together towards a common goal. That goal is your success and our success is ours. We, the royal we, need you for the success of you, AboutUs and others.

We know we don't have all the answers. We understand that you don't have them either. By working together, we hope to find paths towards mutual success and understanding. And that's where you come in. Your knowledge, ideas and questions are valuable. To you, to us, to others. We're always looking for people to help us think, decide and learn. Everyone has something to add, and we want to hear it! We're always looking for people to help out. You might not think you have much to offer, but we know you do!

October 2010

Thursday the 28th
Carol from 365PetProducts.co.uk makes us smile:
Many thanks for the changes and the re-formatting! I'm loving this!

September 2010

Friday the 24th
Gopinathan had these kind words in response to his welcome message
I did indeed like AboutUs.org, with its clean layout and clear purpose.
Wanda thanks Drew
Thanks Drew for fixing my page...Im So NOT computer literate...
Pete said this:
I really appreciate the opportunity to tell the world about my sites - Cheers and Kudos!
Walid made this suggestion for improvement:
Where can I go to edit the social media search information ie - currently the link is searching for a domain in the social media realm....I'd like to remove the .com from the search parameter? ie - the search is returning no results for walidmREALTOR.com; however, if the .com were removed the results would populate for twitter, reddit, youtube and flicker
  • We are taking this idea into consideration for future consideration.

Thursday the 23rd
Steve had this to say:
I appreciated your recommending changes to our web site to improve our rankings. I have spent time and money to maximize our rankings. And your web site provided more recommendations.

Tuesday the 21st
Ken, webmaster for several websites:
I've been pottering about trying to get some websites working for a while now and am only starting to make headway in some aspects since I came across AboutUs.org

Friday the 17th
Gerd asked this question in regard to our New Layout on DomainPages:
Is there any way to create new pages in 1000% pure wiki? I was hoping to just apply a copy & paste job and replace a few sections. I also found that the 100% Wiki gave me more flexibility in creating different sections and not be restricted to a standard template.

Wednesday the 15th
DrewMyers discovered this great comment by Claire Bone
I have found the AboutUs.org very helpful in improving 2 of my websites. One of my sites increased page views by 300% and the other by 500% by the corrections I made after using the analysis of my pages. Thank You AboutUs.org



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