Re: Help from users needed (Was: Twitter and Social networks)
Hi,
I think those networking issues are worth a news entry on our website
and perhaps it might make sense as well to enter this article into
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/publicity/announcements/en/2011/
Any volunteer?
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:50:21PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> 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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> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
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> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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