Etienne Goyer wrote:
Etienne:Hi everyone, Sorry to revive this two years old thread. Someone recently sent me an invite for one of the "unofficial" LinkedIn group. Just wondering if there has been any effort to maintain (semi-) official presence on LinkedIn. Scott? Matt?While on the subject, there does not seems an official group on Facebook either. Social networks seem to be growing like mushroom these days, and I understand LPI cannot possibly maintain a presence on all of them. But I think doing so on the most popular one (Facebook, likedIn and Twitter/Identi.ca at the very least) would be a cheap and easy way to promote the program, and probably well worth the minimal investment in time required to get started. This is a good point and as you pointed out LPI has not maintained an official presence on all these social networking sites. We do, however, welcome the support of community members and affiliates who have established several of these sites for promotional purposes. LPI has always had a culture of volunteer support and these initiatives are one way in which Linux professionals can support us. We do regularly monitor these sites to ensure that LPI is not in any way adversely represented--but, again, there is a value-added when these sites are organized by supporters rather than intentionally led by LPI HQ. However, having said that, we are actively looking at social networking tools for promotional purposes and as a means of communicating with members and, perhaps in time, even offering new services or programs. In the interim, we applaud those efforts of volunteers who use these tools to promote the advancement of Linux professionalism and the continuing adoption of Linux and Open Source Software. Thanks for bringing this issue up! Sincerely, scott On 08-08-01 03:48 PM, G. Matthew Rice wrote:None of them are officially supported by LPI. I like the idea of merging them but the idea of something official has only been discussed in passing right now. Regards, --matt Etienne Goyer <[email protected]> writes:Damn, I accidently hit Send, and then typed in my passphrase to sign the email, before I was actually done with writing it. I blame caffeine and multi-tasking. Let me try again ... Hi everybody, I would like to advertise my affiliation with LPI on LinkedIn. Looking into LPI-related groups, I notice some redundancy. First, there is two generic "Linux Professional Institute" group: one owned Ettore Simone, and one owned by Dave Engbers. There is also duplicate groups for LPIC-1 alumni (owned respectively by Bruno Gerreiro and Ettore Simone). Ettore Simone also own two other groups, for LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 alumni respectively. Are these people active (and, hopefully, representative) members of the LPI community? Why the duplication? Can something be done to merge the duplicate groups? In general: is there a concerted effort from LPI to maintain a presence (official or not) on social network? Should there be? Cheers, -- Etienne Goyer 0x3106BCC2 "For Bruce Schneier, SHA-1 is merely a compression algorithm." http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/164 _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss_______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss -- Scott Lamberton Director of Communications Linux Professional Institute http://www.lpi.org [email protected] +1-905-269-0862 |
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