[LAU] Social Media

[rosea grammostola]

On 08/04/2011 11:59 PM, rosea grammostola wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 10:55 PM, Sebastian Moors wrote:
>> On 04.08.2011 21:39, Aurélien Leblond wrote:
>>> 2. More interrestingly, the "appeal to famous artists" didn't seem to
>>> be well received... What seems to come out though is that although the
>>> FOSS community seems to be good to produce software, we don't seem to
>>> be good at advertising it :)
>>> - Ardour has...49 followers on facebook... Nothing on the wall...
>>> - Hydrogen...94...and one entry on the wall...
>>> - Couldn't find a # tag for any of these on Twitter...
>>>
> Unbelievable that we are missing the chances here. You would expect 
> that opensource projects (like Ardour) see these social media as a 
> godsend.
>> Hi Aurélien,
>>
>> as a developer of hydrogen let me chime in here.. I think it could be 
>> a good idea
>> to think a little bit about the "marketing" of our applications. At 
>> the moment
>> the presentation of hydrogen is more or less restricted to our 
>> homepage and our mailing lists.
> Underground! ;)
>> I've posted rarely to a facebook group (i think you didn't find it), 
>> but that was all. It's hard and cumbersome to use all channels at 
>> once (twitter, google+, etc...) if all you want to do is publish a 
>> release notification or something like this..
> There are social media clients which can handle multiple accounts very 
> well. One message will be posted on all your accounts (e.g. twitter, 
> identica, facebook, ...)
>>> I know I know, we are not advertisers, we are developers!
>>> But what if a small group of us (and yeah, including me :)) would do 
>>> that?
> Right, not all developers are good in marketing or project management 
> (binding users, cooperation with other devs, donations etc.). But why 
> not ask a enthusiastic user to start a twitter account for the project 
> and report news, howtos and interact with users/ reviewers etc.
>
> Regards,
> \r

MuseScore is @youtube @twitter @identica @facebook ...
And youtube and twitter seems to be nicely integrated in the latest version:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/musescore/5953236603/
http://musescore.org/en/node/11523

Respect. :)