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The Semiconductor Wiki Project, the premier semiconductor collaboration site, is a growing online community of professionals involved with the semiconductor design and manufacturing ecosystem. Since going online January 1st, 2011 more than 600,000 unique visitors have been recorded at www.SemiWiki.com viewing more than 5M pages of blogs, wikis, and forum posts. WOW!

FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR ECOSYSTEM!

BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP!
As a SemiWiki Member you may adopt a screen name to protect your identity but you must register with real names and your LinkedIn profile. Only semiconductor professionals with LinkedIn profiles qualify as SemiWiki Members and all Member information will be held in the strictest confidence. SemiWiki does NOT rent, sell, or trade member information. Only registered SemiWiki members can read and write blog comments, post in the forums, and create or modify Wikis. Members can also guest blog on SemiWiki.

Today everything and everyone is connected and crowd sourced. In fact, all social media, from blogs, to forums, and wikis have a profound impact on how people communicate, search for information, and make decisions. For vendors, social media is no longer an experiment or a moonlighting function. Social media is now an integral part of corporate communications.

SemiWiki has a strict NO SHILLS policy. Vendor employees must properly identify themselves if they are going to answer questions, promote products, or say nice things about the company they work for. This level of security ensures the quality of the content.

While Google, Yahoo, Bing, and other search engines will continue to play an important role in social media, KNOWLEDGE SHARING sites like SemiWiki are the new search. The role of user generated content has changed the way information is exchanged. SemiWiki brings technology and technologists closer together than ever before, providing in-demand content and facilitating peer-to-peer communications using Web 2.0 technologies.

SemiWiki Bloggers include industry professionals: Daniel Nenni, Paul McLellan, Daniel Payne, Eric Esteve, Don Dingee, Randy Smith, and Pawan Fangaria. Please click on the names to see the LinkedIn profiles for more information and professionals relationships.

5 things you should know about SemiWiki:

1. SemiWiki is global. Your experience here will be from around the world with an incredible amount of information at your fingertips. Make sure you connect and interact, make sure you engage at all levels.
   
2. Build relationships and network. You can truly connect here with people who you have not met. Make friends and create a support system for your professional life.
   
3. Take the good and the bad. Distinguish between fact and opinion, objective and subjective. People will either like or dislike your posts and there is something to be learned from both.
   
4. Don’t be evil. Top influencers will have one thing in common, they use their influence for the greater good.
   
5. Be yourself. Impersonating others online is a crime so just be yourself. Share your knowledge, share your profession, share your passion. You don’t have to be an expert or industry icon to be a top influencer on SemiWiki.
   

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The updated FTC Guide governing paid product endorsements and testimonials (which includes bloggers) can be found HERE. SemiWiki is 100% compliant. If you see a blog that you feel is not compliant email admin at semiwiki dot com or post a comment on the blog or in the forum and it will be addressed.

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