On 04/18/2011 02:51 PM, William Spooner wrote: > So Vanessa is coordinating @DebianMed twitter? I'll try to remember to > include @DebianMed if I post any relevant tweets. I think twitter works best > for conversational items rather than announcements (RSS feeds are much better > for the latter). > > Is there a DebainMed blog? :) I have http://tangiblecomputationalbiology.blogspot.com/ ... as a kind of an experiment with the medium and all in German ... can change that to English if there is some demand.
Steffen > Will > > > On 14 Apr 2011, at 14:40, [email protected] wrote: > >> 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 >> >> :) >> >> 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. 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