[infrastructure] Next steps

[Isaac Christoffersen]

Open Source For America currently has a Twitter Account, Facebook page 
and LinkedIn page.  I think the decision to leverage "closed 
environments" has already been made.  Now, given that all of those tools 
promote open collaboration, I have no qualms about leveraging to engage 
a larger community.

Isaac

On 4/3/10 2:21 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 13:13:40 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg<greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Facebook is great but closed.  Lots of functionality, but I'm not sure what
>> our philosophical stance on using closed systems should be.
>>      
> Interesting question.  Let me offer my own perspective on this.
>
> I wouldn't host anything important in the Facebook environment, but I
> use identi.ca to do my micro-blogging and it has mechanisms to
> cross-post each item to Twitter and to Facebook that works great.  So I
> could easily see, for example, setting up to emit references to new OSA
> news items as identi.ca messages that get cross-posted and end up in all
> three environments.  That sort of approach allows the maximum number of
> people to notice what's going on, to comment in their respective
> environments if they wish, etc... and getting the word out to the
> maximum number of people is what we want and need.
>
> I'll also note that while Facebook is a "closed environment" from the
> user perspective, it sure does depend on a lot of open source to make it
> go, some of which has been created and/or contributed to by Facebook
> developers:
>
>       http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php
>
> Finally, my observation after living this way for a while is that the
> Facebook community of users is far more usefully "interactive" than
> either the identi.ca or Twitter user communities.  The fact that
> Facebook threads replies and keeps everyone participating in each thread
> notified of new content may have something to do with that?
>
> Bdale
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