On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Wade Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Increasing the exposure of JaxLug either through Facebook, Twitter, Google+, > or whatever social medium is currently popular could obviously be left up to > whoever (already a member of JaxLug) has the time, energy and inclination to > maintain them. If the maintainer needs help or input from the group then > they should ask. Limiting the group to using only the tried and true IRC, > Wiki, or mailing list, allows exposure to only a very small fraction of > linux users in the market thus limiting the type and number of users that > you will generally attract. Admittedly Google+ is a new medium, But nearing > 10 million users at the end of its second week it looks like this time > Google may have something.
I don't disagree with having multiple avenues to come to the same point, my concern is simply spreading the LUG too thin. It already has a little bit beyond what is truly utilized, and adding more will only worsen the effect. If we can come up with ways to interconnect all of these mediums, yet still manage to ensure all users are using the appropriate method of communication (be it facebook, email, whatever is chosen... that's a different can of worms) then I'm all for it. The problem exists when you get the different sub-communities within the community. This is when you have a few people contributing on facebook, a few people contributing on the email list, a few people on XYZ social media site, etc. This gives the appearance of a very small group, and sometimes can lead to loss of interest among the member base as a whole. This is my only concern, I'm not "old school" and revolting against the idea of new ways to do things. I'm simply saying I've seen it before, it's tempting to do, but I've never seen anything good come from spreading a member base too thin. If we had thousands of members, then I'd wager we have the members to be able to spread out. It's like trying to meet at a meeting place the size of Texas. Even if it's 100,000 people trying to meet, the meeting place is too large to be able to congregate. Many people would come and not find anyone and assume that there aren't any others, even though there were plenty. I'll stop this ramble here, but I've got plenty more to say should you not fully understand what I'm saying I'll be glad to clarify. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
