[Blackpool] Blackpool LUG - Communications Strategy

[MJ Hewitt]

Hello everyone -

This is excellent news, thank you Tony, Arran, Jon & Les.

Last year, we moved the wiki off my hosting, and on to free hosting,
anyone can edit it.

With the formation of the writing group and rota, now would be a good
time for the group to take responsibility/ownership of the LUG site,
and move it off my account.

Where and when to move the LUG site??  Suggestions please.

Free hosting is available at lug.org.uk  and we have already reserved
blackpool.lug.org.uk and placed a redirector on it. A move to lug.org
would bring us in line with other LUGs, but it is obviously not the
only option.

The redirector from the LUG site to facebook has been removed as
requested. I apologise for attempting to cut my workload like this
without consulting the group first.

The official twitter LUG channel has been created, and the  transfers
away from accounts owned by me to accounts controlled by the group is
almost complete.

I have removed reference to @blacc2 on the facebook page and replaced
it with @towerlug.
I will continue with updates to the facebook page, while the 'comms'
strategy evolves.

It is great to see these initiatives taking place as the LUG grows and
evolves, and I look forward to BlackpoolLUG version 2012.

On a related point, Simon from Preston Hackerspace may visit us on the
14th. As Simon will be making a special journey to see us, perhaps the
'comms' discussion can be move to after the hackerspace discussion?

Best regards,
Mike Hewitt

PC Recycler Ltd.
29-35 Ripon road
Blackpool FY1 4DY
01253 293258
07711 736899
www.pcrecycler.co.uk


On 7 January 2012 11:58, Les Pounder <lespounder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> Tony, Arran, Jon & Les have had a chat at Toast, and we are looking into a
> comms strategy for the LUG.
> We want to make sure that the LUG's activities are well publicised, and
> that everyone has an equal chance to update the various comms.
>
> *Social Media*
>
> Currently we have the Twitter handle @blacc2 which is a joint account for
> the Computer Club, and the LUG.
>
> We thought that a separate account for the LUG would be in order.
> So we have created the @towerlug https://twitter.com/#!/towerlug account,
> and the hashtag #towerlug.
> This account can be opened to all members of the lug, just drop me a line
> off list for details.
>
> *Facebook*
>
> Please can we keep the Facebook site as is, but remove the refresh option
> from the Blog?
> Can we push tweets to the facebook page?
>
> *Blog updates*
>
> Tony, Arran, Jon and Les have agreed to update the LUG blog site, one
> person will update the blog in a rota, for example, Les will write the blog
> for the meeting on the 14th Jan. At the meeting the next blog writer will
> be chosen for the meeting on the 21st
>
> *Photos
> *
> Any photos* *from the LUG can be stored here*
> *http://www.flickr.com/photos/45703688@N07/*
> *
> Videos can be stored on Archive.org or Youtube, whatever is convenient.*
> *
> *O'Reilly write ups
>
> *Jon and Les have decided to ensure regular write ups are done for
> O'Reilly, these will be posted to the blog and Amazon.
>
> *LUG server
>
> *Can we use an Amazon EC2 instance or something similar, say Bytemark for
> LUG books & materials?
>
> This is all open for discussion at the meeting on the 14th January.
>
> Thanks
> Les
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