[Blackpool] Blackpool LUG - Communications Strategy

[Les Pounder]

Hi Mike, everyone. Responses inline below.

Thanks
Les

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 3:44 PM, MJ Hewitt <admin at pcrecycler.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>

Happy to go with the consensus on this issue.

>
> 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.
>

No apologies necessary, and you are right to consolidate your workload,
hopefully this comms strategy will enable the LUG to promote ourselves more
efficiently.

>
> 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.
>

Thanks


> I will continue with updates to the facebook page, while the 'comms'
> strategy evolves.
>

Thanks again!

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

I'm sure that Blackpool LUG will once again be the hardest working, and
most proactive LUG in the UK

>
> 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?
>

Completely agree, I think we should host the comms discussion on the 21st,
and devote the 14th to 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/#!/towerlugaccount,
> > 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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