Re: Microblogging Workflow

[Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>]

On 2012-05-28 06:15, Allan Day wrote:
> Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
> ...
> > > I really need a way to schedule
> > > microblogging posts.
> ...
> > > This leaves two options that I can see:
> > >
> > > 1. Change our workflow so that we publish posts on Twitter and push
> > > them to Identi.ca from there. Then use a Twitter client with
> > > scheduling capabilities.
> > >
> > > 2. Use the gnome.org Wordpress install to schedule microblogging 
> > > posts
> > > and push them to Twitter.
> ...
> > This sounds like a good plan to me - is it easy to use the Wordpress 
> > install
> > in that way? I think it would be worth the inconvenience to be able 
> > to do
> > this. I'm not a microblogger by nature, but it's really important we 
> > have
> > that kind of content out there (and I usually think of things to 
> > microblog
> > long after they're relevant, and think darn...)
> ...
>
> I've tried a couple of Wordpress plugins for posting to Identi.ca, 
> but
> these are generally focused on sending updates when you publish a 
> blog
> post, and none of them really fitted the bill. Identi.ca itself does
> have a feature that allows you to generate messages from an RSS/Atom
> feed (which we could generate using Wordpress), but the feature isn't
> working for me, for some reason.
>
> I'm also starting to think that using Wordpress as a microblogging
> platform is just wrong. :)
>
> The only thing I've found which is able to do what we need is
> Tweetdeck. I'd be really happy to use that on a shared GNOME account.

Hmmm, there seem to be a lot of proprietary solutions for this. But 
hopefully we can do better - have you looked into tricklepost? Could 
that work for what we need? I'll do some further digging too!

karen