[Blackpool] Next meeting - Communications Strategy

[Les Pounder]

Thanks Mike

All, happy for any suggestions as to how we can promote the LUG, if you
can't attend in person, then please do use this thread to make your
suggestion.

Les

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:42 PM, MJ Hewitt <admin at pcrecycler.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi everyone -
>
> The next meeting on Saturday 21st is going to be about how we promote
> the LUG in 2012 and improve on what we already have.
> A list of points to be discussed were drawn up at the LUG meeting on
> the 7th.(see below)
> Also under consideration is the possibility of starting up a
> Hackerspace, initially in conjunction with the LUG.
>
>  Mike
>
> 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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