On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Andreas Tille
<andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
Hi,
I'm fully quoting this mail from Sebastian Hilbert in case you might not
have noticed this mail. If you currently feel not obliged to do some
packaging or other technical work but want to help the Debian Med
project somehow, please try to follow the example given by the GNUmed
authors.
My short summary of the mail below is:
1. Yes, it is worth the effort to use social media to advertise
Debian Med
2. I personally do not really like to spend my time for this job
because I think my time is better spent with coding and giving
talks on conferences.
But it is important anyway and perhaps you (the reader of this
mailinglist) feel like this is a good chance to become involved.
BTW, I added this item to our Wiki page
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMedTodo
which also mentiones some other items what users or developers can
do for Debian.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:47:21AM +0200, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can give some feedback regarding social networks from the GNUmed
> perspective.
>
> I started out with blogging.
> gnumed.blogspot.com
>
> From google stats it seems about 25 people read it per day. Those might
> include search engines. Sometimes someone comments on the blog posts so it
> must be at least some humans that read it.
>
> Blog posts are good for reports on new major releases, conferences etc. It was
> like this for some years.
>
> There are two people who moved forward from commenting on the blog to raising
> their voice on the mailing list.
>
> This might indicate that without a blog those people might not have been made
> aware of GNUmed.
>
> The blog is syndicated at some low level sites so I guess most people came via
> search engine.
>
> About a year ago someone mentioned that it would be essential to have all the
> accounts (twitter, facebook etc.)
>
> So I went out and created an twitter and identi.ca account. I have no clue how
> many people read this.
>
> On twitter GNUmed has I think 5 followers who seem to have subscribed to what
> we have to say.
>
> It took another year or so until someone answered on the tweets which
> indicates someone reads it.
>
> I assume that this person would not have found GNUmed without twitter or
> identi.ca.
>
> I use twitter and identi.ca for release announcements ,calls for help, bug
> announcements etc. In short for short messages. Nothing automated here.
>
> Then facebook was all the hype. I created a page and basically replicated the
> content from blog and twitter
>
> So far 6 or 7 people subscribed to that page. I don't know how many people
> read this.
>
> The point is. Speaking for the GNUmed project a small number of people were
> made aware of GNUmed because of Twitter ,Identi.ca, blog, and facebook page.
>
> The key is to realize that it can be helpful but it takes ressouces to update
> the content.
>
> Another key factor seems to be networking. One need to use the various options
> to have people subscribe to feeds ot tweets and one need to subscribe to other
> feeds as well to appear as follower there.
>
> Third point to realize is that these measures reach the technophile crowd. The
> computer guys and girls.
>
> If you want to reach doctors who don't use facebook in their daily life there
> is little chance to catch them there. Same for scientists.
>
> If you want to reach scientists who are not computer afficionados you might
> have little chance on facebook. Ask yourself. "Do I read facebook, twitter ,
> blog etc. ?"
>
> Social networks are (IMHO) not a must but are hip, cool and fairly easy to
> work with. So why not.
>
> To reach your target crowd speaking on conferences is (IMHO) more effective.
> Combining the two the "best of breed tactic"
>
> Now head over to
>
> gnumed.blogspot.com
> http://twitter.com/releasedude
> http://identi.ca/releasedude
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/GNUmed-EMR/316812324929
>
> and show some love.
>
> Best regards,
> Sebastian
>
>
>
>
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