[Chester LUG] Microblogging

[Les Pritchard]

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.

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.

In the meantime, we can all try out some of Paul's recepies :-)

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Dan Lynch <biglynchy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> 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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