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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.<br>
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Isaac<br>
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On 4/3/10 2:21 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 13:13:40 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:greg.dekoenigsberg@gmail.com"><greg.dekoenigsberg@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Facebook is great but closed. Lots of functionality, but I'm not sure what
our philosophical stance on using closed systems should be.
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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:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php">http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php</a>
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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