Talk:Sheldon Rampton/Archive 1

Archive 1

Criticism of CMD

"Defenders of the public relations industry regard their writings as one-sided and hostile." The paragraph that begins with that sentence, shouldn't it be moved to the CMD page, or atleast taken off of this one? Grice 11:18, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

NPOV issue: "Rampton founded Disinfopedia (now known as SourceWatch), another CMD project, to complement his PR Watch work to expose deceptive and misleading public relations campaigns." is NOT NPOV.

Actually it is, if that's why he founded it. It doesn't have to provide that service, but if that's the purpose, the mission statement, etc. then its fine. If you feel its not what is accomplished, provide sources and citations after the claim on why it was founded to discuss why it doesn't meet its established goals. -Visorstuff 17:53, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

No longer affiliated with CMD

I should point out that I no longer work with the Center for Media and Democracy, effective October 2009. I realize that Wikipedia generally frowns upon people editing their own biographies, but since this is merely an updating of a point of fact, I'll go ahead and make the change myself to the article. --Sheldon Rampton (talk) 05:06, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Update

It has been several years since my biography on Wikipedia has been updated, and I'd like to add a bit of information about my current activities and involvements. I suggest replacing the current final sentence with something such as the following.

In 2009, Rampton became the senior web developer for the New York State Senate, joining a team created by the Senate's Chief Information Officer, Andrew Hoppin, to promote information transparency and innovation in government using open source software. The Senate deployed the first major New York State government website using the Drupal content management system, introduced live video streaming of all Senate hearings, committee meetings and other official events, and launched its own search engine enabling citizens to find and read senate bills online as they were being drafted.

In 2011, Hoppin and Rampton co-founded New Amsterdam Ideas, a New York-based company that develops open-source software solutions for government agencies and nonprofit organizations.

--Sheldon Rampton (talk) 20:44, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

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Citations

I see that the article about me has gone awhile with some flags indicating citations are needed. In deference to Wikipedia's COI policy, I don't intend to edit the article directly myself, but I have compiled some references to fill in the places where it says citations are needed. I've created a copy of the article at User:Sheldon Rampton/updated bio with my edits. Before making the edits, I pasted in the current version of Sheldon Rampton, so you can get a diff with just the changes by comparing the original version of User:Sheldon Rampton/updated bio with the current version.

In addition to adding references, I added a few sentences at the end. I have not worked at the Center for Media and Democracy or written anything for publication since 2009, so I thought some kind of update was appropriate. I've tried to avoid self-promotional language or bias in the portion I added, but of course someone else than me will have to determine whether those edits are appropriate. Cheers!

--Sheldon Rampton (talk) 19:56, 30 June 2019 (UTC)