Social networking is dead.

[Robyn Bergeron]

On 03/01/2011 02:22 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> OK, not really, but I got your attention.
Yes, you did ;)
> But our social networking feeds are kinda dead.  More specifically,
> our identi.ca/Twitter @fedora output.  They're silent, like a ninja
> only without nunchucks or throwing stars.
>
> In large part this is thanks to HootSuite's closing up their entire
> value prop to paid customers only, leaving free accounts like ours
> dangling in the wind.  What's that?  Putting some of our eggs in a
> non-free basket didn't work out?  Well, it's a risk we took with eyes
> open, at least.  It was the least ineffective of a lot of suboptimal
> alternatives, and at least for a while it was working well.
>
> The sad fallout is that our identi.ca/twitter feeds are quiet, and we
> should endeavor to fix that.
>
> I did have an idea about this, but it won't help us in the short term:
> to manage access to our identi.ca feed through Insight via a
> well-supported Drupal module.  There are a couple to choose from, and
> the great thing is all the group access would happen automagically
> thanks to our existing FAS integration.
>
> But... that doesn't help us *right now*.
>
> AFAICT, there are no free services that facilitate team sharing of
> identi.ca/twitter duties.  There are several aggregators out there,
> and several multiplexers, but none for collaboration.  Rather than
> wait for one to emerge, we should get the access into the right
> people's hands now, and look for a better solution immediately after
> that (up to and including the idea above).
>
> The fastest way to fix the problem, I believe, is to simply send out
> the password to the identi.ca account, via GPG-encrypted email, to
> each of the people listed in our FAS group.  Is that acceptable?
>
>
I think that's perfectly acceptable.

The question is: What do we have as a plan going forward as far as what 
we want to start saying there?  Or, at this point, is anything 
acceptable, so long as we're seeing something happening?

-Robyn