On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:37 +1000, Jared Norris wrote: > > > > On 1 June 2011 09:15, Paul Gear <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 31/05/11 21:03, Joel Addison wrote: > > > ... > > I have added an item to the agenda for the next meeting on June 10 > for > > us to discuss social media use. For those who cannot attend the > meeting, > > please send through your thoughts to the list so they can be raised > at > > the meeting. > > > I won't likely make the meeting, so here are my thoughts: > * You don't really need to justify using social media - > it's a question of how, not whether. When so much > news & information happens through them nowadays, it's > irresponsible not to use it if you want to get a > message out. > > Totally agree with this statement. Sorry if the original email wasn't > clear, we're trying to work out the how part. Should we be using a > single account for each service or try to set up a group on each > service for everyone to join? I'm told there are distinct benefits to > both setups so we were trying to work out what would be best for the > team before we started regularly using it and then decided to change > to another method. > > * You can set up Twitter to feed from identi.ca so that > you don't have to send the message twice. Even @user > and #hashtag mentions come across OK - although i > haven't run into a situation yet where i mention a > person how owns an identi.ca account and someone else > owns the twitter account of the same name (except for > me - i'm paulgear on identi.ca and paulgear1 on > Twitter). > Yep, this will depend on if we go the group or single account route > according to my research this is easily accomplished with the single > account model but I can't see how setting up groups would achieve > this, but I could be wrong.
I agree with the single account method being easy to integrate with Twitter. One thought I had was to set up an Ubuntu-AU identi.ca account, and then include that account in the Ubuntu Australia group, so people can look in both places for the official Ubuntu-AU updates. > * Don't tweet too often - any more than once or twice a > day is too much. Keep it slow & steady. Give tweets > time to percolate through the twittersphere. > > Exactly, LoCo related stuff only that would benefit the team. We're > not simple going to spam everyone all the time otherwise I'd be > unsubscribing myself. > > * I personally don't look at Facebook very much for > technical stuff. I prefer to keep FB for social stuff > and Twitter/identi.ca for technical stuff. But that > seems to be just me, mostly. Lots of people tweet > about inanities. > > The theory was if we're going to do one we may as well do all 3 and > cover as many people as possible. > > * Why would you wait for a meeting to get started? Go > for it! > > When we were discussing it on IRC and neither of us could > defninitively say if the account or group setup on each service would > work best for us so we were hoping someone else in the team had some > experience to share. Sorry if it wasn't made clear about that. I think for Twitter an account is needed regardless, as you cannot set up a Twitter 'group' at all. The main changes would be potentially for identi.ca and Facebook, where we currently have a group, but an account or page respectively may be more useful. This means that we can set up a Twitter account at any time, but wait for the meeting for the other changes if we want. > Paul > > -- > Sent from my ThinkPad, powered by Linux > > > Regards, > > Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych) > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris Regards, Joel
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