Re: Help from users needed (Was: Twitter and Social networks)
On 04/18/2011 02:51 PM, William Spooner wrote:
> 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?
:) I have http://tangiblecomputationalbiology.blogspot.com/
... as a kind of an experiment with the medium and all in German
... can change that to English if there is some demand.
Steffen
> Will
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> 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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