Ubuntu-AU Social Media

[Jared Norris]

On 31 May 2011 21:03, Joel Addison <jaddi27 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> A couple of weeks ago I was talking to Jared about the use of social
> media for the Ubuntu Australia Loco. I think we as a group need to
> discuss how best to utilise the accounts/groups that we currently have,
> and decide what could be changed to improve their functionality.
>
> My proposal would be to set up a Twitter and identi.ca account for
> Ubuntu-AU that could be used to broadcast events and other updates to
> users of these services. Currently there is an identi.ca group for
> Ubuntu Australia, but as far as I know there is no way to post messages
> as the actual group. By having an official Twitter and identi.ca
> account, people might take more notice of upcoming events that have been
> posted.
>
> Also, I have been looking into the benefits of a Facebook page vs a
> Facebook group. A good comparison of both of these can be found at
> http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-groups-pages-2010-02. One main
> benefit I can see of having a page over a group is the ability to set an
> easy to read URL for a Facebook page, as opposed to using a long,
> convoluted URL that is set for a group. Also, a page will allow you to
> post as the page, rather than as yourself in the group. Possibly it
> would be useful to have both a group and a page, so events can be shared
> slightly easier through the group, but posts can be sent out as the
> page.
>
> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Joel
>
>
>
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Joel,

Thanks for bringing this up. I feel social media is one of the mediums we're
currently not using to it's potential. It has also been mentioned that this
would be a very useful tool to remind people about upcoming events.

I personally have little knowledge or experience with social media, in fact
I have only set up accounts on all three services after our talk the other
night on IRC. Hopefully there are some people that know a lot more about
these things than I do (thanks for the link you posted as well, good
reading) and can help us decide how best to set it up to get the most
benefit out of it. I have asked around other LoCos and it appears there is
no preferred way of doing it, just whatever suits each group best. So over
to you, lets hear your opinions of what has worked well in the past for
other groups you may be associated with and why.

Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
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