[mdlug] Social Media for the Club

[Tony Bemus]

I think social media is a good thing because it allows for people to find groups that they wouldn't normally know about. 

On April 8, 2016 11:05:22 PM EDT, David L Lambert <davidl at lmert.com> wrote:
>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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>Behalf Of
>Brandon
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>Subject: Re: [mdlug] Social Media for the Club
>
>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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