<div dir="ltr">You know, Bob, and I'm sure that you do, there's plenty of automatic cross-posters out there. You should only have to post to your own blog and have it automatically copied to G+, FB, Twitter, etc.<div>
<br></div><div>Myself, I have a thing running where anything I post in G+ (under my own account) is automatically copied to my personal blog.</div><div><br></div><div>No need to make extra work for yourself!</div><div><br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 April 2014 14:27, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I think KWLUG already has a presence on those social media platforms:<br>
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Google Plus: <a href="https://plus.google.com/s/kwlug" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/s/kwlug</a><br>
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/235909336445540/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/235909336445540/</a><br>
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LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1769625" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1769625</a><br>
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Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kwlug" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/kwlug</a><br>
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!Fediverse: <a href="http://sn.jonkman.ca/kwlug" target="_blank">http://sn.jonkman.ca/kwlug</a> and<br>
<a href="http://sn.jonkman.ca/group/kwlug" target="_blank">http://sn.jonkman.ca/group/kwlug</a><br>
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I'm a co-admin for the LinkedIn page, and I'm the voice of KWLUG on<br>
Twitter and in the !Fediverse. If anyone wants to join me I'll be glad<br>
to hand out the passwords in an encrypted e-mail, or in person at the<br>
next meeting.<br>
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I've been live-microblogging the last few KWLUG meetings, but aside<br>
from a few "Favorited" and re-Tweets by total strangers I'm not sure<br>
if the effort is worth the result. Does anyone here find the<br>
live-blogging of @KWLUG meetings useful?<br>
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For myself I would do neither Facebook nor Google+, and Twitter only<br>
as an amplifier for the !Fediverse. But in the case of the Ubuntu<br>
Canadian team, at an Ubuntu IRC meeting (with International Observers<br>
from the Local Community (LoCo) Council) it was suggested that we<br>
expand to where people are, and that's Facebook and Google+. So<br>
Cranky got roped into managing a Google+ community page for Ubuntu-ca,<br>
and Sammy Lao (razorgoto) was volunteered into setting up a Facebook<br>
Ubuntu-ca page. So now I'm actually on both Google+ and Facebook far<br>
more than I want to be.<br>
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I've been cross-promoting Ubuntu-ca IRC/Video Chat meetings and Ubuntu<br>
Hours on Google+, Facebook, Ubuntu forums and mailing lists, and still<br>
the last IRC/Video Chat meeting consisted mostly of me talking to myself.<br>
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I suspect that the high-tech and FAIF crowds I hang out with at both<br>
KWLUG and Ubuntu-ca have not much interest in any of the commercial<br>
social media sites, and both groups are more active on their mailing<br>
lists than anywhere else. And perhaps that's how it should be.<br>
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- --Bob.<br>
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On 14-04-28 09:45 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br>
> Well social media is a good idea.<br>
><br>
> The Canadian Ubuntu Google+ group which Bob, Darcy and I (and<br>
> others) started is now up to 33 followers and 6,830 views.<br>
><br>
> Bob keeps mentioning some "FaceBook" thing but honestly I have no<br>
> idea what he's talking about, and I strongly suspect that this<br>
> "FaceBook" is some sort of delusion he's having.. He makes it<br>
> sound like it's something that's kind of like Google+, but nowhere<br>
> near as good...<br>
><br>
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> On 28 April 2014 09:35, John Johnson <<a href="mailto:jvj@golden.net">jvj@golden.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 2014-04-28 08:19, Chamunks Arkturus wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> If we do a bit more social media wise I think that we would pick<br>
>> up.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Agree. And with the "pick up" comes a wider audience, ranging<br>
>> from "newbies" to "experts". And with that challenge to engage<br>
>> and retain individuals with different levels of experience. No<br>
>> suggestions. No solutions. I just thought I would remind readers<br>
>> of this recurring issue.<br>
>><br>
>> Me? I still consider myself a Linux newbie. And this after some<br>
>> experience in the 1980s as a part-time Unix sysadm. And after<br>
>> recently setting up an Ubuntu webserver with Apache (ok ok<br>
>> Apache2). But still a newbie.<br>
>><br>
>> JohnJ<br>
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