Social Media

This page is for the KnoxMakers' social media planning, collaboration for the KM web presence, and etc.

Discussion Thread

Sites and services

Feel free to help us add to the list of potential social media services that KM will officially use (or at least have a dormant account with). Until this is fleshed out, we will need more info for each item, such as image requirements and any relevant information related to functions, account creation, etc. Eventually, this section would ideally simply link to each account page and provide a short description if needed.

G+

• Great demographic value for KM
• Complimentary to KM gmail and Google accounts
• hack-friendly API
• Stat tracking

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/KnoxMakers

• Different demographic types
• Event pages, fan pages, notes, and content that can be shared
• Advanced API
• Stat tracking

YouTube/Vimeo

• Social content libraries
• "re:" video reply system

Twitter

• Great demographics value for KM
• Potential for brief, live updates (e.g., "#KM_brainstorm: Sam just called the social media team a mop.")
• @KnoxMakers account is made, but we currently haven't developed it.
  • Image needed (700k max. JPG, GIF, PNG)
  • 160 character bio
  • list of Twitter accounts to work with (members, KAR, etc.)

Reddit

• (Jess, but see below)

EventBrite

• Event service used by many
• Can work alongside Google and Facebook Event campaigns

Skype

• Different functions and audiences than Google Hangouts
• Without compelling evidence or votes, Skype may not make the cut as Google Hangouts does a bang-up job.

Etc.

Social Media Management software/services

• HootSuite

???

• ???

Member blogs

Feel free to add your personal/professional blog here using the same format. This section is for the purpose of gathering all member blogs that can be used to shamelessly plug KM.

• Adan
• Adrian's personal blog and Adrian's professional site

Current items

Feel free to help us edit this section as the conversations progress here, in Google Groups, and in-person.

• Nail down which social media services to focus on so that the Board can set up any needed accounts and we can begin working on those accounts' presences (images, info, additional content, planning, etc.)
  • G+: Aye, aye
  • Facebook: Contested?
  • Twitter: Yessir
  • Skype: Not so much
  • YouTube: Potentially an aye?
  • Reddit: Jess has our back here.
• Identify social media services that might still be used for announcements, etc. without official KM accounts (see below)

local online East TN forums

• KnoxBlab (Isaac)
• KnoxViews (Isaac)

other

• online public event announcement calendars (local radio, Metro Pulse, etc.)
• Reddit (Jess has offered to post to Reddit)
• Digg (early objections already received, due to Digg's post-mortem ineffectiveness)
• any relevant sites members are already registered on that they could post to
• etc.

Multiple accounts/campaigns

This section anticipates the possibility of multiple accounts. One example is that the MakerBot Cupcake in shop, once fully functioning and printing items, can be personified and given a gimmicky Twitter account. This could be automated (e.g., "@KMCupcake: just #printed another air hockey puck") or controlled manually (e.g., "@KMCupcake: Hungry for ABS today, anyone gonna feed me?")

Twitter

• @KnoxMakers

Fractalexplorer 14:32, 28 August 2012 (EDT)