For a while, we were using a HootSuite free account to manage multi-party access to the Twitter @fedora account. (By rigging up a ping.fm feed in HS, we had the ability to post to Udenti.ca and thus echo through Twitter as well.) Using HS allowed us to spread access to multiple team members without having to insecurely spread the password around. Due to HS changing their free/paid structure, though, we've no longer had the ability to do this for some time. Instead, we have shared password access to the Identi.ca and Twitter accounts. HS is getting ready to deactivate access for extra people to our free account there, making that account virtually useless. The alternatives AFAICT are: * Switch to a paid account, where we also pay for each additional team member. A total team size of 4 would run a little over $600 a year. * Continue to share the password for Identi.ca/Twitter. To augment our tracking capability I can set up some mail forwarding rules to notify team members of conversations. When we originally started HS we did so with some trepidation given it was a non-FOSS service. I'm not really shot in the arm by paying for the service, unless we have a clear idea of what that gains us. I briefly surveyed free tools again and have found nothing that offers the "many people share a social presence" features of HS. But do we need their console, analytics, etc. to fulfill some goals? To what extent are we comfortable or willing to pay for a non-FOSS service for marketing purposes? Paul -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
