[mdlug] Social Media for the Club

[Jeff Hanson]

I'm on Reddit.  In many ways it's like a BBS with voting.  Some subreddits
I follow:
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/winehq
http://www.reddit.com/r/wine_gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/commandline
http://www.reddit.com/r/bash
http://www.reddit.com/r/*ubuntu*

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:24 PM, gib at juno.com <gib at juno.com> wrote:

> I've only recently become aware of Reddit.    It sounds like an
> up-and-coming thing.
>
> Does anyone else have any thoughts on Reddit?   Should we ask Brandon to
> be our Reddit moderator?
>
> Brandon,  we will also be having our elections April 11th.  We have
> received no nominations.  If you are interested in becoming more involve we
> would be happy to get you going.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Brandon <bfotiu at gmail.com>
> To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Social Media for the Club
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 08:06:08 -0400
>
> I think that Reddit is a good space to grow and maintain a userbase. It's
> free and somewhat customizable and it has an IT savvy crowd already,
> including a Sysadmin group www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin
> I could assist as a moderator there if that's the path we all decide to go
> down.
>
> Facebook is good for advertising events and maintaining a static space. I
> don't participate on that site and there is a wall where only members can
> see certain details but for the general population that's not an issue.
> With any social media it's a matter of drive more than anything.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:52 PM, gib at juno.com <gib at juno.com> wrote:
>
> > We had a young lady in our latest meeting and she asked which social
> media
> > tools we use.  Our response that we use email, err, ahh kind of made her
> > think we were a bunch of old geeks.  Well, we are but it got me thinking.
> > Maybe the reason we don't see many people coming to our meetings is we
> are
> > not in the right media.
> >
> > I know we have this email list.  I know some people use Google +.  I have
> > some friends on Facebook.  My wife uses something called Facetime.  I've
> > seen twitter used by a lot of people.   The company I work for uses
> > Yammer.  I see someone using Reddit.   I know the MUG.org group has some
> > success with Meetup. I have a few newsfeeds on my phone. I knew a group
> of
> > young people who used texting to coordinate events.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
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