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On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:46 PM, TommyLee Whitlock
<tommylee@whitlock.org> wrote:
> This is an interesting topic. What about exploiting some of the other social
> media opportunities that are now available. I'm specifically thinking of
> Facebook and note that Lojbab is now has a Facebook account.  I admit that
> I'm moving into fossil-dom but isn't Facebook reasonably international in
> scope now?  Or does someone know of a newer social media that may be better?
> Yahoo Groups would have served this purpose at one time and for some topics
> is still viable.  Google groups maybe.
> There are several privacy possibilities with Facebook groups, from wide open
> to closed private by email invitation only.  For wide open, there would need
> to be someone (or several someones) to monitor it to ban spammers or
> malfeasants.
> Thoughts?

As a social media professional (partly): Facebook is great for
marketing to people in their late twenties and older (and provides a
reasonable discussion forum option, though everyone technically
inclined that I know still prefers e-mail lists for that purpose).
Twitter has a somewhat smaller reach but is much more of an all-ages
thing; for those focusing on the tween, teen, and college age
segments, Twitter and Instagram (and to a lesser extent Pinterest) is
where it's at.

I'm not sure Lojban manifests itself in visual enough ways for
Instagram to make any sense at all. Having an official Lojban Facebook
page (as in, page people follow, not group - the jboste seems fine for
that kind of use) and Twitter account that duplicate the same content
via two platforms would be easy enough to set up, and I can offer a
little bit of advice about how to administer them. I'm happy to help
make this work, but I feel that I'm not currently plugged into the
language and its userbase enough to do much of the content generation.

I'd be inclined to suggest that, given that we're promoting a language
but (mostly) to people who aren't particularly close to fluent, such
an account should make all posts bilingual, saying the same thing in
English (still the majority native language of Lojbanists) and Lojban.

 - mi'e .kreig.daniyl.

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