Hi, I just setup twitter and identica accounts for Debian Med, later on the day I'll add a nice avatar, and later on the week I'll look how to post automatically and stuff.
For those interested in following Debian Med twitter and identi.ca http://twitter.com/#!/DebianMed http://identi.ca/debianmed <http://identi.ca/debianmed>:) On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm fully quoting this mail from Sebastian Hilbert in case you might not > have noticed this mail. If you currently feel not obliged to do some > packaging or other technical work but want to help the Debian Med > project somehow, please try to follow the example given by the GNUmed > authors. > > My short summary of the mail below is: > > 1. Yes, it is worth the effort to use social media to advertise > Debian Med > 2. I personally do not really like to spend my time for this job > because I think my time is better spent with coding and giving > talks on conferences. > > But it is important anyway and perhaps you (the reader of this > mailinglist) feel like this is a good chance to become involved. > > BTW, I added this item to our Wiki page > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMedTodo > > which also mentiones some other items what users or developers can > do for Debian. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:47:21AM +0200, Sebastian Hilbert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can give some feedback regarding social networks from the GNUmed > > perspective. > > > > I started out with blogging. > > gnumed.blogspot.com > > > > From google stats it seems about 25 people read it per day. Those might > > include search engines. Sometimes someone comments on the blog posts so > it > > must be at least some humans that read it. > > > > Blog posts are good for reports on new major releases, conferences etc. > It was > > like this for some years. > > > > There are two people who moved forward from commenting on the blog to > raising > > their voice on the mailing list. > > > > This might indicate that without a blog those people might not have been > made > > aware of GNUmed. > > > > The blog is syndicated at some low level sites so I guess most people > came via > > search engine. > > > > About a year ago someone mentioned that it would be essential to have all > the > > accounts (twitter, facebook etc.) > > > > So I went out and created an twitter and identi.ca account. I have no > clue how > > many people read this. > > > > On twitter GNUmed has I think 5 followers who seem to have subscribed to > what > > we have to say. > > > > It took another year or so until someone answered on the tweets which > > indicates someone reads it. > > > > I assume that this person would not have found GNUmed without twitter or > > identi.ca. > > > > I use twitter and identi.ca for release announcements ,calls for help, > bug > > announcements etc. In short for short messages. Nothing automated here. > > > > Then facebook was all the hype. I created a page and basically replicated > the > > content from blog and twitter > > > > So far 6 or 7 people subscribed to that page. I don't know how many > people > > read this. > > > > The point is. Speaking for the GNUmed project a small number of people > were > > made aware of GNUmed because of Twitter ,Identi.ca, blog, and facebook > page. > > > > The key is to realize that it can be helpful but it takes ressouces to > update > > the content. > > > > Another key factor seems to be networking. One need to use the various > options > > to have people subscribe to feeds ot tweets and one need to subscribe to > other > > feeds as well to appear as follower there. > > > > Third point to realize is that these measures reach the technophile > crowd. The > > computer guys and girls. > > > > If you want to reach doctors who don't use facebook in their daily life > there > > is little chance to catch them there. Same for scientists. > > > > If you want to reach scientists who are not computer afficionados you > might > > have little chance on facebook. Ask yourself. "Do I read facebook, > twitter , > > blog etc. ?" > > > > Social networks are (IMHO) not a must but are hip, cool and fairly easy > to > > work with. So why not. > > > > To reach your target crowd speaking on conferences is (IMHO) more > effective. > > Combining the two the "best of breed tactic" > > > > Now head over to > > > > gnumed.blogspot.com > > http://twitter.com/releasedude > > http://identi.ca/releasedude > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/GNUmed-EMR/316812324929 > > > > and show some love. > > > > Best regards, > > Sebastian > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > > > > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- Ing. Vanessa Gutiérrez
