Hi raphael, having not much time to spare, I wanted to do a simple think to promote AOO on facebook, the way everybody does that on facebook. Therefore I went to the facebook group and thought I'd "like" it. Well, this doesn't seem to work with a group. Then I began to think again.
Though I don't want to question the usefulness of a facebook GROUP, it is not the first and best thing to do on facebook, I think - at least from a marketing perspective. Please compare these facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenOfficeorg/153010651492897?ref=ts https://www.facebook.com/pages/Apache-OpenOffice/209053572542795 https://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenOfficeorg/252334251512786 Apparently, there is work to do to present AOO in a concise, unified way on facebook. A facebook GROUP is for discussion mainly. You need membership in the group, you need to be accepted. A normal facebook user, who wants to "like", i.e. express her interest in, enthusiasm about, or support for Apache OpenOffice, does not need and will not want membership in a group. While a facebook group is certainly nice to have, presentation on facebook is a different kind of thing. At present, there are several ways or forums to discuss Apache OpenOffice, just another discussion group in just another social network may be ok, but not a pressing thing. On facebook, Apache OpenOffice should at least have a good presentational page, a place to come to for information and to "like" it, so your facebook friends see that you like AOO. That's the way facebook promotion really works. Kind regards, Hans Zybura > -----Original Message----- > From: Raphael Bircher [mailto:r.birc...@gmx.ch] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:29 PM > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Official Facebook Page is ready for promoting > > Hi at all > > The official Facebook page from Apache OpenOffice is now ready for > promoting. See http://www.facebook.com/groups/338330086179568/ > > Feel free to join and promote the group. > > Greetings Raphael > -- > My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/
