GooglePediaOne of the many reasons I like Firefox - the free, open source web browser - is that the community supporting Firefox continually comes up with little applications, called extensions, that through a simple installation process add great functionality to my browsing experience. One such extension, a very recent addition to the stacks of existing Firefox add-ons, is GooglePedia. GooglePedia takes the powerful search functionality of Google and combines it with the formidable content of Wikipedia, so that when you run a search on Google half of the page displays Google search results, while the other half of the page shows Wikipedia search matches. In case you've been hibernating for the last few years and don't know what I'm talking about when I mention Wikipedia - Wikipedia is the world's first online, open-source encyclopedia. It's an enormous resource built by a community of volunteers - people like you and I - who have expertise and knowledge to share and do so, for the benefit of something much bigger than them, without remuneration. Here's a great snippet from a recent Fortune article off CNNMoney.com about the Wikipedia community: How to motivate - and control - an army of 30 000 volunteer workers. Go download Firefox. Do it now. Install the GooglePedia extension. Experiment a bit. Tell someone else. Have some fun. Take back the Web! About Mike StopforthMike is the founder and CEO of Cerebra, a specialist in social media and social business consulting, education and implementation for corporate brands. Now as part of the Wunderman Group following its acquisition in 2013, Cerebra provides support to one of the largest digital agencies in the country...
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