[mdlug] Social Media for the Club

[gib at juno.com]

I just went to the Innovate Farmington meeting this week. They had over 20 people show up. I think it was the Meetup site that drove that.  When Jim asks at the Mug meeting how new people heard about the group he often finds Meetup is the source. We just need more people to post to these things. It is a problem where we just don't have enough people.   Do we want to spend money on a Meetup account?  Can someone with an account post for us?

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Tony Bemus <tony at bemushosting.com>
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>, David L Lambert <davidl at lmert.com>, 'MDLUG's Main discussion list' <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Social Media for the Club
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 10:05:50 -0400

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.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On
>Behalf Of
>Brandon
>Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 8:06 AM
>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>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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