<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.32.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:37 +1000, Jared Norris wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> On 1 June 2011 09:15, Paul Gear <<A HREF="mailto:paul@libertysys.com.au">paul@libertysys.com.au</A>> wrote: </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> On 31/05/11 21:03, Joel Addison wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> ... 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. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I won't likely make the meeting, so here are my thoughts: <UL> <LI>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. </UL> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> 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. </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <UL> <LI>You can set up Twitter to feed from <A HREF="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</A> 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 <A HREF="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</A> account and someone else owns the twitter account of the same name (except for me - i'm paulgear on <A HREF="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</A> and paulgear1 on Twitter). </UL> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> 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. </BLOCKQUOTE> 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. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <UL> <LI>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. </UL> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> 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. </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <UL> <LI>I personally don't look at Facebook very much for technical stuff. I prefer to keep FB for social stuff and Twitter/<A HREF="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</A> for technical stuff. But that seems to be just me, mostly. Lots of people tweet about inanities. </UL> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> The theory was if we're going to do one we may as well do all 3 and cover as many people as possible. </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> <UL> <LI>Why would you wait for a meeting to get started? Go for it! </UL> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> 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. </BLOCKQUOTE> 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. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <BLOCKQUOTE> Paul <PRE> -- Sent from my ThinkPad, powered by Linux </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Regards, Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych) <A HREF="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris</A> </BLOCKQUOTE> Regards, Joel </BODY> </HTML>