[Cialug] Slightly OT, ... an "Online Community"

[David Champion]

As for your comment about Facebook groups - if your goal is a private
group, then there are many other options.

You can use Facebook for private groups only, and just not "friend" anyone
else, that's up to you. Nobody forces you to look at cat pictures on
Facebook.

If your goal is to have a public facing group, it works very well. As an
example, our SCCA region has about 300 actual paying members. Our Facebook
group has 730 members. When we want to promote an event, that gives us
reach far beyond our membership. We also use other means like a traditional
newsletter and Constant Contact.

-dc

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Brett Neese <brett at brettneese.com> wrote:

> NationBuilder has a really cool feature called Broadcaster that allows you
> to assign people in your Nation who are allowed to broadcast out to your
> Twitter and Facebook pages once you've connected them:
> http://nationbuilder.com/what_is_a_broadcaster
>
> Brett Neese
> 563-210-3459
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Derek Etnyre <detnyre at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > IBM's Facebook like social solution is called IBM Connections.
> >
> > http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/conn
> >
> > http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Connections
> >
> > Is a neat product but not open source. You can have it hosted on cloud by
> > IBM or IBM business partner.
> >
> > It also fits in with their new "Its not Lotus Notes, but it really is"
> > email platform called IBM Verse.
> >
> > http://www.ibm.com/social-business/us/en/newway/
> >
> > Derek
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:03 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, c wrote:
> > >>
> > >> One of the main things is to write once, but publish in multiple
> places
> > to
> > >> try to get interaction. So if you use wordpress, nationbuilder or
> > anything
> > >> else, you need to make regular public posts that are also pushed to at
> > >> least facebook and twitter. You also need to engage responses to those
> > >> posts in the environment they arose from.
> > >>
> > >> Purcell
> > > Yeah, .. that's the main problem.
> > >
> > >    Thanks!
> > >
> > >    Lee
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