On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Martin Cooper<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Angela Cymbalak <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> I've been spending more than my fair share of time on Facebook lately. > Are > >> we allowed to set up a Facebook page for the project? Just not sure > since > >> we are in incubation? What about a Twitter feed? Can we do those > without > >> breaking any of the incubation rules? I can do them if I know what my > >> guidelines are... > > > > > > What would be the benefit of a Facebook page? I can see a Twitter feed > might > > be useful assuming there's some project activity to twitter about, but > I'm > > not sure I see a purpose to a Facebook page. I'm certainly open to > hearing > > about how it might help, though. > > > > The idea would be to use the Facebook page to share some project > announcements, such as releases, participation on conferences, etc I > believe this is the same idea we are using for the main "The Apache > Software Foundation" page in Facebook. That Facebook page hasn't seen a wall post for five months, or a discussion since 2007... OK, so let's say we set up a Facebook page for PhotArk. Maybe we announce it by writing on the ASF page's wall. Don't people have to become a "fan" of the page to see updates to it without proactively going to the page? That's the part I don't get - how does this help us reach out? Surely people who don't already know about it are only going to hear about it if, for example, you or I say something about it in our 'status'. (I'm talking about Facebook here.) But we don't need a Facebook page before we can say something in our 'status'. So how does the page help? I'm sure I must be missing something here. ;-( -- Martin Cooper > This would really be another > channel to reach for people while we still don' t have enough traffic > on the PhotArk website. > > http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2399716752&ref=ts > > > -- > Luciano Resende > Apache Tuscany, Apache PhotArk > http://people.apache.org/~lresende <http://people.apache.org/%7Elresende> > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
