Re: Social networking is dead.

["Fabian A. Scherschel" <fab@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, yeah, I know that. Sorry. What I was trying to say was that we shouldn't neglect microblogging because I think it could be a very good PR resource for us. Sorry if I was unclear....

Fab

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 04:27:16PM +0100, Fabian A. Scherschel wrote:
> Hi, Paul!
>
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > Robyn, there is a microblogging SOP already written on the wiki:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Status_and_microblogging_SOP
>
>
> From that page:
>
> While this is not necessarily the target audience for the

> distribution<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base>,

> it is important to fit our messages to our perceived audience for the medium
> of microblogging.
>
> Comparing that to:
>
>
>    - Voluntary Linux

> consumer<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base_-_voluntary_Linux_consumer>
>    - Computer-friendly<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base_-_computer-friendly>
>    - Likely collaborator<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base_-_likely_collaborator>
>    - General productivity
> user<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_base_-_general_productivity_user>

>
>
> I would say that especially identi.ca (from my experience there, I admit my
> personal feed is pretty pre-selected but nonetheless) fits all of these to a
> great extend. I think especially identi.ca can be an awesome PR tool for
> Fedora. I personally got probably 20+ people on there trying Fedora in the
> last 3 months alone. It's a very friendly audience to our cause. :)

Hi Fab,

We already use identi.ca as our source for microblogging.  It feeds to
our Twitter account.

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