Social networking is dead.

[Fabian A. Scherschel]

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 at gmail.com> 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 at gmail.com>
> 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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