Old HootSuite account

Gent Thaçi gentthaqi at gmail.com
Sat Jul 2 00:34:33 UTC 2011


Btw, what about CoTweet: http://cotweet.com/ Many FOSS Projects use it for
their Twitter account such as Mozilla for their @firefox account!

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 02:38:57PM +0200, Gent Thaçi wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jared K. Smith <
> jsmith at fedoraproject.org>wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Paul Frields <stickster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > I'm not comfortable paying for a HootSuite account.  I'd prefer to
> > > look for a FOSS tool, or continue to do what we're doing.
> >
> > Although I am not part of the Marketing team I agree with Jared to find
> FOSS
> > alternatives. Identi.ca has it's own default option to auto-post to
> Twitter
> > and you can even post to identi.ca via email so you can then create an
> list
> > which auto-sends emails to identi.ca's email.
>
> This doesn't correspond well with your suggestions of ifttt or
> friendfeed, but regardless I'm in favor of FOSS, as I think most
> people here are.  I'd like to turn those +1 votes into some more
> concrete solutions, and people who will be willing to put in a few
> hours on technical bits we might need to implement them.
>
> --
> Paul
> --
> marketing mailing list
> marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/marketing/attachments/20110702/71b48a23/attachment.html 


More information about the marketing mailing list