Social Media Trends

[Jaroslav Reznik]

----- Original Message -----
> On 03/27/2014 07:36 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 09:19:44AM +0530, A. Mani wrote:
> >>> http://heidicohen.com/global-social-media-trends/
> >>
> >> Hey, could you expand a little more on how this impacts Fedora Marketing
> >> in
> >> particular? Is there something in here which you think should inform our
> >> actions? Links are okay; thoughts are better. :)
> > 
> > It can help us to target on platform, we're not visible right now. On the
> > other hand, it's not only about numbers. See Jiri's recent post about how
> > Facebook treats pages - and with more users on Facebook, we have lower
> > visibility than on G+...
> 
> A little about Facebook. I have admin on that page, so I see the "N
> number of people saw this post" on each thing there when I go to the page.
> 
> - Robyn's recent blog post went up yesterday: FB says 1,881 people saw
> the post. Shared? Once.

I'm famous now! That was me!

> - Matt's post on Fedora.next was shared on 19 March: FB says 2,747
> people saw the post. Shared? Twice.
> - Intro to Copr shared on 11 March: FB says 2,086 people saw the post.
> Shared? Once.
> 
> Now - guess how many people on the MARKETING TEAM (at least
> participating in these discussions) shared these things from the FB
> page? If you guessed "zero" you'd be right.

I'm trying to re-share as much stuff as possible when it shows on my
timeline. But you're right - social media are about interaction and if
we're unable to create buzz, it's probably going to be lost in the rest
happening there.

> Simple fix here: Work the tool - we 1) make sure *compelling* content is
> shared on FB, and 2) we re-share *from* the FB page (rather than
> directly from the source).

Maybe ping this list back with FB link? To have more attention...

> I could go on - but instead, I suggest we make next week's meeting about
> fixing our use of social media, and I'll prepare an agenda.
> 
> Any thoughts? Comments, flames, or objections?
> 
> Best,
> 
> jzb
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