Re: Help from users needed (Was: Twitter and Social networks)
Here it is:
http://debianmed.blogspot.com/2011/04/debian-med-individuals-expertize-and.html
I have sent invitations to author on the blog to the common suspects on
this list, just ping me if yours got lost and/or you just feel like writing.
Waiting for your all's guest posts.
Steffen
On 04/18/2011 05:10 PM, William Spooner wrote:
> 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:
>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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