[Chester LUG] Microblogging

[Dan Lynch]

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.

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.

Incidentally I tried to load the Chester LUG site again and the link on
lug.org.uk is still not working. Anybody got any ideas on that? Would be
good to get the site up and running if possible. Thanks


On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>  I don't twitter, but I do youtube.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/heiowge
>
> I also skype (this email address) and occasionally use Kopete.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
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> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:53:45 +0000
> From: les.pritchard at gmail.com
> To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Chester LUG] Microblogging
>
> 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!
>
> 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?
>
> Les
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