Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking

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Author: Ally Biggs
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Promoting LUG meets via social networking
Just a idea but to attract more newcomers to meets. You should hold
Talks on stuff like the basics of Linux
Administration covering areas such as basic samba (getting windows and Linux to play nicely). There is probably
Alot of people out there coming from a windows world who are making the transition to Linux. Who are not necessarily gurus and do not want to sit to talks and lectures on advanced topics. With raspberry pi being released this would also be a perfect opportunity
To grab new users attention. I'm quite
New to Linux myself I wouldn't want to
Attend a meeting and sit through a talk
On something I'm either not interested in or am technically not at that level. It would put me off attending further meetings. A beginners setting up a Linux server workshop would be very
Popular with myself and a lot of other
People out there. Just some thoughts

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On 27 Jan 2013, at 17:52, "Anton Piatek" <anton@???> wrote:

> In general I think it is a good idea.
>
> Facebook has a good process for multiple admins of a page, but I've not seen a good solution for twitter other than relying on one person. Anyone know of anything.
>
> Anton
>
> On 27 Jan 2013 17:48, "Alan Pope" <alan.pope@???> wrote:
> Hullo,
>
> It struck me today that the LUG doesn't have any kind of active presence on social networks (such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+). I have seen other LUGs promote their meetings (and not much else) via these networks and it struck me as a good way to reach a wider audience than the website and mailing list currently do.
>
> I wondered if it might be worth setting up a presence on each of the above networks and have some people responsible for posting when the LUG has a meeting.
>
> To be clear, this isn't to replace the mailing list or website, and isn't targeting _you_ because you are already on the list. It's to target potential new people.
>
> Opinions / flames...
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> Cheers,
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