Old HootSuite account

2011-06-27 Thread Paul Frields
For a while, we were using a HootSuite free account to manage multi-party access to the Twitter @fedora account. (By rigging up a ping.fm feed in HS, we had the ability to post to Udenti.ca and thus echo through Twitter as well.) Using HS allowed us to spread access to multiple team members

Re: Old HootSuite account

2011-06-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/27/2011 05:20 PM, Paul Frields wrote: When we originally started HS we did so with some trepidation given it was a non-FOSS service. I'm not really shot in the arm by paying for the service, unless we have a clear idea of what that gains us. I briefly surveyed free tools again and have

Re: Old HootSuite account

2011-06-27 Thread Jan Wildeboer
On 06/27/2011 01:57 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I don't think we should. If we really need this, we need to invest in developing something that is free and open source and share it with the community. Take a look at brdcst.it[1] - GPLv3. Combined with piwik[2] could deliver even more ;-)

Re: Old HootSuite account

2011-06-27 Thread Gerard Braad
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jan Wildeboer jwild...@redhat.com wrote: On 06/27/2011 01:57 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: I don't think we should.   If we really need this, we need to invest in developing something that is free and open source and share it with the community. Take a look at

Re: Old HootSuite account

2011-06-27 Thread Jared K. Smith
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Paul Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: When we originally started HS we did so with some trepidation given it was a non-FOSS service. I'm not really shot in the arm by paying for the service, unless we have a clear idea of what that gains us. I briefly

Re: Old HootSuite account

2011-06-27 Thread Vinzenz Vietzke
On 06/27/2011 02:25 PM, Gerard Braad wrote: Take a look at brdcst.it[1] - GPLv3. Combined with piwik[2] could deliver even more ;-) +1 +1 absolutely. Another alternative would be hellotxt.com though it's no FLOSS service. It's similar to ping.fm and delivers messages out to various social

Re: Old HootSuite account

2011-06-27 Thread Gent Thaçi
Although I am not part of the Marketing team I agree with Jared to find FOSS alternatives. Identi.ca has it's own default option to auto-post to Twitter and you can even post to identi.ca via email so you can then create an list which auto-sends emails to identi.ca's email. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011

Re: Old HootSuite account

2011-06-27 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:24:19PM +0200, Jan Wildeboer wrote: On 06/27/2011 03:22 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: Someone would have to write the support for brdcst.it to support shared/multiple logins. Are you guys volunteering? Not really. brdcst can use any RSS/Atom as source and