Sounds like a good idea Dan, let's see if we can get that sorted out. I've been using Gwibber to view a few feeds and I've been very impressed with it too.<br><br>I've managed to take a look at the website issue and it seems to be down to a DNS server that appears to have got corrupted. I'll get onto it this weekend and kick a few boxes....if I can remotely.<br>
<br>In the meantime, we can all try out some of Paul's recepies :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Dan Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:biglynchy@gmail.com">biglynchy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm quite an active microblogger and have been for a couple of years now since before it was the "in" thing. I have accounts on most of the major services but I only joined Twitter recently cos I needed the promotion. I much prefer Identi.ca because it's fully open source and free software, licensed under the AGPL. They just upgraded it to include groups so you could set up a Chester LUG group quite easily. For promotion Twitter seems to be the place because it's so prevelent. What we do with Liverpool LUG is have an account with the same name on Twitter and Identi.ca then post updates to both at the same time with something like Ping.fm you can also use Gwibber on the desktop which I love. You don't have to post often just about upcoming meetings every now and then. We've seen attendance go up at LivLUG and I think it's a good idea to use these services for promoting the group.<br>
<br>As you can tell by now I'm a social media whore sorry hehehe :D If I can help at all just let me know though.<br><br>Incidentally I tried to load the Chester LUG site again and the link on <a href="http://lug.org.uk" target="_blank">lug.org.uk</a> is still not working. Anybody got any ideas on that? Would be good to get the site up and running if possible. Thanks<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Paul Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wilp4a@hotmail.co.uk" target="_blank">wilp4a@hotmail.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I don't twitter, but I do youtube. <br><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/heiowge" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/heiowge</a><br><br>I also skype (this email address) and occasionally use Kopete.<br>
<br>Cheers<br><br>Paul<br><br><hr>Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:53:45 +0000<br>From: <a href="mailto:les.pritchard@gmail.com" target="_blank">les.pritchard@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:chester@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">chester@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
Subject: [Chester LUG] Microblogging<div><br><br>No doubt you've all heard the sudden discovery of Twitter by celebs over the past few weeks! It seems like loads of celebs are doing it now that Steven Fry mentioned it on prime time!<br>
<br>So it got me wondering - how many people in the LUG use Twitter or any other microblogging service already? I had thought before Christmas about getting us a LUG feed of some sort going, so it would be interesting to hear who uses it. If you do have an account; do you post or just listen?<br>
<br>Les<br><br></div><hr>Share your photos with Windows Live Photos - Free <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/windowslive/products/messenger.aspx" target="_blank">Try it Now!</a></div>
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