On 03/01/2011 02:22 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > OK, not really, but I got your attention. Yes, you did ;) > But our social networking feeds are kinda dead. More specifically, > our identi.ca/Twitter @fedora output. They're silent, like a ninja > only without nunchucks or throwing stars. > > In large part this is thanks to HootSuite's closing up their entire > value prop to paid customers only, leaving free accounts like ours > dangling in the wind. What's that? Putting some of our eggs in a > non-free basket didn't work out? Well, it's a risk we took with eyes > open, at least. It was the least ineffective of a lot of suboptimal > alternatives, and at least for a while it was working well. > > The sad fallout is that our identi.ca/twitter feeds are quiet, and we > should endeavor to fix that. > > I did have an idea about this, but it won't help us in the short term: > to manage access to our identi.ca feed through Insight via a > well-supported Drupal module. There are a couple to choose from, and > the great thing is all the group access would happen automagically > thanks to our existing FAS integration. > > But... that doesn't help us *right now*. > > AFAICT, there are no free services that facilitate team sharing of > identi.ca/twitter duties. There are several aggregators out there, > and several multiplexers, but none for collaboration. Rather than > wait for one to emerge, we should get the access into the right > people's hands now, and look for a better solution immediately after > that (up to and including the idea above). > > The fastest way to fix the problem, I believe, is to simply send out > the password to the identi.ca account, via GPG-encrypted email, to > each of the people listed in our FAS group. Is that acceptable? > > I think that's perfectly acceptable. The question is: What do we have as a plan going forward as far as what we want to start saying there? Or, at this point, is anything acceptable, so long as we're seeing something happening? -Robyn -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
