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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve asked informally about this on IRC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Things should be properly vetted before they are posted on behalf of the organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In addition, these pages are not updated very well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>They’d be a great way to get feedback from users in a less hostile environment (compared to IRC).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Also, many things can be put up there such as tutorials, faqs, and guides. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Also recent major bugfixes can be announced and people can post questions and be answered by other users on the page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think Facebook and Twitter would be the 2 most important networks to have an official Fedora page.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ambassadors-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:ambassadors-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Ramsey<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 08, 2012 5:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ambassadors] The use of social networks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Found on the Fedora Project. :)<br><br>Marketing social networks -<br><br><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_social_networks">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_social_networks</a><br><br>Found on search.<br><br>Fedora on Facebook with 23,222 likes -<br><br><a href="http://m.facebook.com/pages/Fedora/8064650479">http://m.facebook.com/pages/Fedora/8064650479</a><br><br>Fedora Project on Facebook with 8,389 likes -<br><br><a href="http://m.facebook.com/pages/Fedora-Project/7670534782">http://m.facebook.com/pages/Fedora-Project/7670534782</a><br><br>> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 08:57:31 -0400<br>> From: <a href="mailto:jayson.rowe@gmail.com">jayson.rowe@gmail.com</a><br>> To: <a href="mailto:ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org">ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] The use of social networks<br>> <br>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Kévin Raymond <<a href="mailto:shaiton@fedoraproject.org">shaiton@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br>> > Hi there,<br>> ><br>> > I am not involved in other social things than the Fedora Planet and<br>> > our mailing lists… So this email is about an idea that I won't resolve<br>> > by myself :).<br>> ><br>> > We just had an IRC discussion about the use of our social network on websites.<br>> > Couldn't we set up a broadcasting service to publish on our official<br>> > Facebook, Google+, identi.ca and Twitter pages?<br>> > Like what is sent through the announce mailing list, or to auto-send<br>> > announce message about the beta availability, the release day…<br>> > Also shooting the release notes link would be great, has people still<br>> > come asking "Is there anybody know where to get the info about the new<br>> > features and capability of fedora 17?" (just this morning on -docs).<br>> ><br>> > There could also be something that I am not aware of..<br>> ><br>> > Cheers,<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > Kévin Raymond<br>> > (shaiton)<br>> > GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2<br>> > --<br>> > ambassadors mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org">ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>> > <a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors</a><br>> <br>> I know there are a couple of G+ pages (not sure if they are 'official'):<br>> <a href="https://plus.google.com/112917221531140868607/posts">https://plus.google.com/112917221531140868607/posts</a><br>> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110514354576121733241/posts">https://plus.google.com/u/0/110514354576121733241/posts</a><br>> <br>> (The first one only seems to have activity on it).<br>> <br>> There is also a twitter feed here:<br>> <a href="https://twitter.com/fedora/">https://twitter.com/fedora/</a><br>> <br>> I do not know who is responsible for updating to these.<br>> <br>> I also just learned of two Facebook groups via Christoph Wickert this morning.<br>> <br>> I'm happy to help with these any way I can, if help is needed.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> -jayson<br>> --<br>> ambassadors mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org">ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>> <a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>