User talk:Fiona Campbell

Hi Fiona,

here is a link to a story about microsoft editing wikipedia pages... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/24/tech/main2392719.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_2392719 --David 21:43, 2 Feb 2007 (GMT)

Hi fiona,

good work on Microsoft. The thing to do with the board members is to put square brackets round their names: eg Bill Gates. Then save and then cut the descriptions and biography of them and paste it onto their own page.

I have done it for Bill Gates.

Do you see what I mean?

--David 15:29, 1 Mar 2007 (GMT)

Hi, can you transfer the relevant material on the 2collaborate page to the 2Collaborate page which was already there? (spot the difference in the titles?) --David 18:16, 22 Mar 2007 (GMT)

Hi, the correct title should be Scottish Chambers of Commerce where ther eis already a page. can you copy any of your new stuff across to the original pag?

thanks --David 19:54, 24 Mar 2007 (GMT)

Hi fiona, I see you have been busy! Just a few pointers: 1. make sure there is not a page already there for an organisation 2. make sure that you give the full name of the organisations and not just its initials 3. Make sure you don't just paste in the organisations own view of itself. Instead you can put its view in quotes and also give some other verificable information from other sources. 4. make sure you don't create pages which contain material which do not reflect the title of the page. eg

• Law Society, should be Law Society of Scotland;
• Scottish Chamber of Commerce material should be added to the Scottish Chambers of Commerce page;
• Federation of Small Businesses needs references
• Scottish Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Small Businesses - this page looks like a mistake? Can you relocate whatever material you want from this to another page and let me know and I will delete the page?
• NHS Scotland before the Microsoft deal looks like a press article. If you want to use this material you should simply quote from the article on the Microsoft page under a heading like:

==Microsoft and the NHS in Scotland== or if you think you need a new page to deal with the NHS issue and Microsoft Try the following Microsoft: Relations with the NHS in Scotland (or a similar title) but I would leave this until you actually have too much material on the Microsoft page itself.

• NHS UK Again this doesn't look like a page on the NHS. can you remove this material?
• NHS Scotland, same applies to this
• NHS, same applies
• Police Force same applies: There should not be a page title like this. It is possible to have a particular police force like for example Lothian and Borders Police
• 2collaborate I have redirected this to the existing 2Collaborate (with a capital 'C') page and pasted your text on the talk page here: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Talk:2Collaborate Can you incorporate what you need and then delete the stuff on the talk page?

Also below I have pasted the contents of your page on the IoD. As you will see I have redirected this to the Institute of Directors. Feel free to incorporate whatever add to that page from below (in quotes etc)

Lastly, send me a message if any of this is not clear etc?

Thanks

David --David 09:19, 25 Mar 2007 (BST)

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Hi Fiona,

Can I suggest that one way into making the Microsoft page easier to read is to nest the headings.. I sugest the following kind of hierarchy:

Scotland

Scottish Conclicts

NHS

etc etc.

• Also I suggest since the Scottish element of the study is likely to be only part of it, that you briefly cover Microsofts lobbying and political activities in the US and Europe. In particular that means listing the various organisations of which microsoft is a member or the front groups it funds. The easiest thing to do here is to search spinprofiles: http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Special:Search?search=Microsoft&fulltext=Search

which wikll tell you what nfo we have on pr and lobbying firms hired by microsoft and other groups it funds. Once you have listed all of these is will be worth writing a little on any particular cases that Microsoft has been involved in such as the Campaign for Creativity or the Independent Institute.

• On Scotland, I suggest that you try and turn what you have into a narrative: What is it that Microsoft is up to in Scotland? Much of the material you have could be tuyrned into a couple of paras just outlineing what they are up to and what markets they are trying to get into. This will then act as a lead in to dicuss their lobbying work here - the two obvious cases are the government leaders forum and the shared services process. Do you have thge shared services CD that I got from the Executive? This is clearly of use here.

Let me know what you think about all this.

--David 12:52, 7 Apr 2007 (BST)

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