[Qgis-psc] Usage of official Facebook account

Nathan Woodrow madmanwoo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 20:56:20 PDT 2019


Yeah, I think we can disable messages, or at least add an auto message to
it.  I can look into it today.

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 1:55 PM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> fully agreed, excellent idea. From my experience, it will be difficult to
> make it clear this is not another support channel. Better be very clear not
> to create frustrations.
> Cheers.
>
> Il 22 marzo 2019 03:35:02 CET, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>>
>> I'm ok adding  Maryanne as a admin as well if she would like.   We can
>> have a few admins like the Twitter account to keep stop it being owned by
>> single user.
>>
>> There is a lot of users on there and it's a good way to at least share
>> the latest news. (Not for doing support)
>>
>> - Nathan
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:31 PM Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi PSC,
>>>
>>> I wanted to kickstart some discussion regarding the official QGIS
>>> Facebook accounts.
>>>
>>> We've got some 28k+ likes on the QGIS official Facebook page, yet the
>>> page is hardly utilised. That's a considerable audience that we're not
>>> capitalizing on -- and it's a different audience to that which we
>>> reach via the standard mailing lists and Twitter account (for
>>> reference, the QGIS Twitter account is quite active).
>>>
>>> Recently we reached out to Nathan to ask if he could reshare some
>>> notifications about North Road's current Layout plotting crowdfunding.
>>> He offered admin access to Maryanne (North Road's marketing guru) to
>>> allow her to resurrect the account and start pushing content on it.
>>>
>>> We've had a quick chat about this, and while Maryanne is more than
>>> happy to take over the account and use it to reshare QGIS discussions
>>> which occur on Facebook/mirror Twitter announcements/etc, we don't
>>> want there to be any conflict of interest here if she uses it to post
>>> commercial content (e.g. advertising crowd funding campaigns, whether
>>> they are North Road related or not).
>>>
>>> Obviously if someone impartial from the community wants to take over
>>> this account and actively utilise it then that's great... but if
>>> no-one is interested in doing this, is it OK if Maryanne gets access
>>> rights AND can we have official approval that sharing commercial
>>> content via the channel is acceptable?*
>>>
>>> Nyall
>>>
>>> * again, I'm referring to notices about campaigns from ALL commercial
>>> organisations, not solely North Road
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>>
>>
> --
> Sorry for being short
>
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