Re: Help from users needed (Was: Twitter and Social networks)
So Vanessa is coordinating @DebianMed twitter? I'll try to remember to include @DebianMed if I post any relevant tweets. I think twitter works best for conversational items rather than announcements (RSS feeds are much better for the latter).
Is there a DebainMed blog?
Will
On 14 Apr 2011, at 14:40, vanecgs@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just setup twitter and identica accounts for Debian Med, later on the day I'll add a nice avatar, and later on the week I'll look how to post automatically and stuff.
>
> For those interested in following Debian Med twitter and identi.ca
>
> http://twitter.com/#!/DebianMed
> http://identi.ca/debianmed
>
> :)
>
> 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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