On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right now we have links on: > > http://www.openoffice.org/ > > to both an "official" Facebook page -- > https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO/ > > and a Facebook group -- > https://www.facebook.com/groups/338330086179568/ > > Should we still link to both? The group doesn't look like it's been sued for > a while. >
You might already know this, but so we're all on the same page, here is a quick summary of what these are: - A Facebook page is like a person's Facebook Profile -- it is a broadcast 1-to-many medium, where admins of the account (project members) enter updates, links, pictures, etc., and these are seen by friends of the page, currently around 3000 of them. They can respond, but responses have less visibility to other Page friends, so it is very much a 1-to-many information flow, with us in control. Our Google+ Page and Twitter account act in a similar way, 1-to-many. - A Facebook Group on the other hand is more like a traditional forum, with multiple threads, where any Group member can start a new topic and new topics and responses are seen by all Group members. So the information flow is more like many-to-many. So this is similar to our users mailing list, or our new Google+ Community. So if we think of this from an engineering perspective, we only "need" a single many-to-many venue, not many. But from an outreach perspective, it is a good thing that we reach out to where current and potential users already are, and meet them on their terms. So I think it is good that we have the opportunity to be in all of these places. Of course, good things come only when the communities reach critical mass, and unless someone is nurturing the Group it will languish, but cause little harm. Maybe an opportunity to look for some more volunteers to help encourage conversations? -Rob > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > MzK > > "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." > -- Aesop
