Re: [LAU] Subject=Re: community pages

On 08/05/2011 01:35 PM, pshirkey@email-addr-hidden wrote:
>> On 08/05/2011 12:59 PM, pshirkey@email-addr-hidden wrote:
>>>> On 08/05/2011 10:56 AM, Aurélien Leblond wrote:
>>>>>> I'm thinking we can do something even more complete than the planet
>>>>>> feeds.
>>>>>> Definitely automated updates on content will be a big part of it
>>>>>> though.
>>>>> Is that really what we want though? Automatic feeds?
>>>>>
>>>>> When I started to use Linux few years back to produce music, what I
>>>>> wanted to know is: what software to use, what can they do, few
>>>>> audio/video examples to judge by myself if that was what I was looking
>>>>> for.
>>>>>
>>>>> I stumbled accross a few of these automatic generated feeds, and to be
>>>>> honest they didn't tell me much.
>>>>>
>>>>> Shouldn't we start by deciding the audience we want to reach?
>>>>> We don't really want to "advertise" to the advanced users, they
>>>>> already know where to look.
>>>>> And I'm afraid the "newbe" would be overwhelmed by an automatic feed.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I had in mind was this:
>>>>> - A single campaign on facebook/twitter/google+ around the major
>>>>> actors of FOSS music software (like Ardour, LMMS, Hydrogen, etc...)
>>>>> - A simple message
>>>>> - And see how that goes to repeat the experience (or not!)
>>>>>
>>>>> I still agree that we should centralize the action though!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> If only the project Ardour would manage to become active and known on
>>>> social media (twitter, youtube channel), then you are almost there.
>>>> Other projects are too small likely to get much attention. A chance
>>>> might be to have a centralized account for such small projects.
>>>>
>>> This is the right idea.
>>>
>>>> I am not a marketing expert, but words like 'Linux', 'FLOSS' might be
>>>> frightening people. 'Opensource', 'Ardour' and 'Ubuntu' (and probably
>>>> Creative Commons) are words which lay much better in 'the market'...
>>>>
>>>> Possible names for a centralized account:
>>>>
>>>> OpenSourceAudio
>>>> OpenSourceMusic
>>>> OpenSourceMusicians
>>>> Linuxaudio
>>>> Linuxaudio.org
>>>> LinuxMusicians
>>>> Linuxmusicians.com
>>>>
>>>> A account @twitter& @Identica to start with?
>>>>
>>>> The guys from LMMS for example (as other projects), could mention that
>>>> account when posting a message.
>>>>
>>>> 'LMMS 0.9 is out! Grab it at http://lmms.org #lmms #opensourceaudio
>>>> @opensourceaudio'
>>>>
>>>> This message can then be retweeted by the centralized account.
>>>>
>>> If you set up the account I can setup the retweet on the centralised
>>> meta
>>> landing page server...
>> It's *social* media. That means it works when you interact with people.
> Unless you only intend to interact with the same people who are on this
> list we are going to need to get some more attention. One way to achieve
> that is to have automated tweets so people can keep up to date and trend a
> topic that catches their attention.
>
>
>> A centralised meta landing page server, might be a good example what
>> doesn't work. It's technically great, but socially very bad. :)
> Sorry. A centralised location to access all the content that we are
> producing is a bad thing?
>
>
>> Of course we could do that for such a account, but then social
>> interaction should be done by project accounts (like MuseScore is doing
>> nicely).
>>
> The social interaction will come when people start commenting on the news.
> We need to feed people news and automating the news from the already
> existing locations where people are posting is a handy tool.
>
> Once we get people to notice the already existing content that we are
> posting then we will get more social interaction.
Assuming that all the docs will be placed at Linuxaudio.org ... It might
be good to stick with the same name.

Account: twitter.com/LinuxAudio, hashtags #linuxaudio and/ or #flossaudio ?

But how do you prevent that the RT account will be abused? Isn't it
possible to RT messages from accounts you follow yourself only?

\r

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Received on Fri Aug 5 16:15:05 2011