Background
For reference, OpenRefine is currently present on the following social media platform
- Twitter - managed by myself based on this process
- Linkedin - mostly dormant account that still managed to attract 100 followers. Admins are @Ainali @Sandra @Chris_Erdmann and myself. As I was doing the review, I enable smarterqueue to post the same content from twitter to the LinkedIn group.
- and now Mastodon - I guess it only managed by @antonin_d and @abbe98 currently.
- we also discussed the idea of curating video tutorial on youtube
The idea behind the Twitter feed is to
- Boost visibility for community contribution regarding training, tutorial, and publication.
- Reach out to an audience not following the google discussion group at the time.
- Post information that may not be relevant enough for the discussion list (I don’t want to share every new video tutorial on the forum or previous discussion group).
- Support a user (very rarely, and I am unsure if this should be done via official or personal accounts).
For the record, each tweet has between 5 to 20 clicks on its attached link.
Managing multiple channels
I think it is a great idea to delegate the curation of each platform’s content to a designated list of members.
Regarding cross-posting, I would recommend the usage of a tool like buffer (it seems they are the only one supporting Mastodon) or smarterqueue (which doesn’t support Mastodon), where
- One message can be posted on different social media, with on “native” independent post on each platform (so no reference between mastodon and twitter for example).
- Messages can be scheduled and queue in advance (so there is not a flood of messages when the curator find 10 interesting things to share in the same hour).
Any volunteers
I created this public pool (other users will know what you voted for) to identify who may be interested in managing a specific channel (or multiple channels via a buffer).
- Youtube playlist
- Mastodon
- Buffer (to crosspost on twitter, mastodon, LinkedIn)
- Other - please add a comment in the conversation
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Creating a policy
If we start delegating access to social media to several volunteers, I would prefer we set up a “code of posting” so we document somewhere what is authorized and not when managing the profile since posts will be coming from the OpenRefine identity. I will open a PR on OpenRefine/OpenRefine.