Re: Help from users needed (Was: Twitter and Social networks)
Could you register debianmed.blogspot.com? I would be happy to guest-post on Ensembl.
Will
On 18 Apr 2011, at 14:32, Steffen Möller wrote:
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> 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.
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> Steffen
>> Will
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>>
>> On 14 Apr 2011, at 14:40, vanecgs@gmail.com wrote:
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>>> 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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