> On 7 Jan 2015, at 1:26 am, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > > My impression is that a Twitter account and a Facebook account such as these > are only usable for self-promotion of the project. This has little > community-engagement value. > > I would rather they not exist than have such limited value. Especially since > they require effort to keep current in some form. > > I recommend that a Project Blog be established instead if we think it is > important to give a project voice for announcing events, milestones, and > problems of interest. It will be necessary to curate comments and also > address the meaningful ones though. That or comments should be disabled.
I don’t have a strong opinion for or against twitter/facebook accounts. I’m not convinced of their benefits, but I don’t see anything wrong with having them. I definitely agree a project blog would be good to have. I know I really need to get my act together in terms of writing more about the project, and I’m sure there are many useful contributions that others can make as well. I would in fact consider this the most important strategy in terms of social media engagement, especially if we can get people linking to it when we post articles of interest on particular topics. — Dr Peter M. Kelly [email protected] PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966)
