Yesterday, Brian Kerr sent me this great weblog post: On making About Us a real conversation and not static. I personally have a connection to the city, since I moved from Ann Arbor, MI a few years ago to Portland, Oregon – home of the original wiki and the AboutUs wiki.
Part of our vision for AboutUs is that nearly every single website has a static ‘about’ page – and so our wiki is an attempt to give a place for dynamic ‘about’ information.
We now have a small item that could help make an actual ‘about’ page on your site more dynamic: our widget.
Some had originally thought of it as a widget just for blogs, but what we are seeing is that more people are using it on their websites, like these.
I can easily imagine people placing these on their ‘about’ pages – I also have vision of a larger white label AboutUs widget for the ‘about’ page, in the future.
Imagine if every website had a door to an into open, collaborative, transparent, social media website. What excites me is the connections that are possible and the things, relationships and solutions that could come from that.
Let me know what you think!
Update: AnnArbor.com already uses for its ‘about’ page, a wiki page on ArborWiki! Kudos and props to them!!
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Wasn’t aware of these widgets, going to check them out
I think they are a great idea for including on your websites about page.
Super Geoff! – So happy you like the idea! What do you think about if we could offer the AboutUs wiki page, in an iframe for people to use on their about page – maybe a little bug at the bottom saying ‘powered by AboutUs’?
That way they and the community could edit it super easy! Best, Mark
widgets are a smashing idea…id be interested to see how they expand over the next few years into new interactive tech enhancements…we use several different types of widgets on our page and some are the most useful tools