The Latest Blog Posts From Lumino

Wikipedia Pete Hunt Wikipedia Pete Hunt

The Hidden Ways Wikipedia Influences Your Customers

With Wikipedia appearing so prominently in Google search results, brands have a clear incentive to harness that reach by optimizing their profile there. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, though, not a promotional website, and editors maintain strict guidelines as to what kind of content can stay on the site.

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Digital Listening Jenny Karn Digital Listening Jenny Karn

How to Claim Your Brand's Knowledge Panel

This may sound obvious, but: Claiming your knowledge panel is really important! There are few pieces of internet real estate as important for your brand as that small box, because it's exactly where customers, clients, investors, and even journalists are going to look for facts about your business, from website url to social media accounts to annual revenue and more.

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Jenny Karn Jenny Karn

What’s the difference between an RFP and an RFQ?

In government contracting, both Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Requests for Quotes (RFQs) are solicitation documents used by government agencies to obtain goods and services from suppliers or contractors.

However, they are used in different circumstances and have distinct characteristics.

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Social Media Jenny Karn Social Media Jenny Karn

Dear LinkedIn, Help Us Help You

Corporations are increasingly focusing their marketing efforts on LinkedIn to reach business decision makers, but it’s hard to fully cut the Facebook cord. LinkedIn needs to optimize its functionality in order to become the supreme channel in corporate social media playbooks.

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Digital Listening Andrew Burnett Digital Listening Andrew Burnett

Google Knowledge Panel 101

Your organization’s Google Knowledge Panel entry is arguably the most important real estate on the web. This little box appears at the top right of all Google results related to your brand name. The Knowledge Panel is always above the fold and can often appear far more prominently than your website or other organic results. As such, it's the first thing customers, clients, investors, and journalists are going to see when they search for you.

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Wikipedia Sheri Cook-Sandve Wikipedia Sheri Cook-Sandve

How do you manage Wikipedia projects?

At Lumino, we help large organizations improve and manage their presence on Wikipedia. I'm not one to brag, but we're the best in the business at this type of engagement. We strictly follow Wikipedia's rule for conflict-of-interest editing, work constructively with the site's community to implement changes, and ultimately improve the accuracy and reliability of the encyclopedia's entries by adding factual, up-to-date, and reliably sourced information.

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Wikipedia Andrew Burnett Wikipedia Andrew Burnett

What does a flag on a Wikipedia article mean?

Flags basically mean that one or more Wikipedia editors have decided the article’s content doesn’t align with the site’s guidelines. This can be because of several specific problems. Flags immediately signal to readers that content in the article can’t be trusted.

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