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Re: idea for social media management

 

I just realized today that I had forgotten to post to Kubuntuforums. We
need to add this to all our checklist as they are one of the *best* places
to get testers and user support!

Valorie

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just a quick follow up on this since I haven't heard anything back:
> whenever a decision is made, as long as there is some method to get
> notifications by email, I'm happy to help with taking care of the
> Mastodon community. Put that in the appropriate file ;)
>
> On 2017-11-29 14:50, Rick Timmis wrote:
> > The KC has discussed social media recently, and we realised that we
> > have lots of separate channels, often managed independent of and some
> > no longer actively cared for.
> >
> > There has been a suggestion of Hootsuite, which I have been looking
> > into.
> >
> > I think you're right Walter we do need to be able to build a team of
> > folks around our social channels. I also think it would make sense to
> > use some form of posting tool like Hootsuite.
> >
> > I am thinking perhaps a LP team, like the website team. I don't know
> > how that is setup but it gives a few of us an Ubuntu One sign on for
> > the website, and we can just add or remove folks from the team.
> >
> > If we could do that with a team sign-on to Hootsuite, and maybe setup
> > a team mailing list, perhaps that would work.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > On 27 Nov 2017 06:52, "Walter Lapchynski" <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I was talking to Valorie about Mastodon not being listed at
> >> kubuntu.org [1]
> >> and she suggested it might be best for me to help out with Masto
> >> since I
> >> am such an active Mastodon user. I'd be glad to help, for sure, but
> >> I
> >> think one thing that would make it best for me to be responsive to
> >> mentions and such is to actually have notifications. Of course, only
> >> one
> >> email can be associated with the account, but we have more than one
> >> person helping, so how do we solve this?
> >>
> >> The idea I talked to Valorie about and would like to suggest is
> >> setting
> >> up a mailing list. This is great because users can tune in or tune
> >> out
> >> as much as they want depending on their needs. They do need to be
> >> private, though. Unfortunately, that excludes Launchpad. It's likely
> >> that having a list more for the purposes of redirecting mail than
> >> for
> >> having a more functional purpose is going to be enough to justify a
> >> lists on Ubuntu and/or KDE's resources.
> >>
> >> That said, here's my idea: use lists.riseup.net [2]. This is a
> >> resource
> >> mainly for activists (to which Firefox recently contributed a bunch
> >> of
> >> money) and that subsequently works really hard on using open source
> >> software and ensuring privacy and security. This is why the likes of
> >> Whisper Systems (read: Signal), OpenKeychain, the Library Freedom
> >> Project, etc., all use it.
> >>
> >> They use Sympa for software. Sympa has message tags (kind of like
> >> topics) that users can subscribe to. It should be automatic. That
> >> said,
> >> we could have one email, say, kubuntu-social@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, with
> >> topics for Mastodon, Twitter, etc. and people could subscribe only
> >> to
> >> those segments of the list they want.
> >>
> >> I thought ti would be a good idea to run this past the Council and
> >> see
> >> what they think. So… thoughs?
> >>
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