[mdlug] Social Media for the Club

[David L Lambert]

Nice thing about e-mail is it's still possible to answer it a year later.
(right?)

G+ and FB are overrated, I'm on both but I suspect for some people they're
write-only.

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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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