Re: Microblogging Workflow

[Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>]

On 2012-05-17 12:17, Allan Day wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I do most of the GNOME microblogging, but I often find it difficult 
> to
> do it effectively. One reason for this is that there currently isn't 
> a
> way to schedule a post. I'll often think of things that need posting
> at times when they won't get exposure, or I'll think of three
> different posts all at once. I really need a way to schedule
> microblogging posts.
>
> Our microblogging posts are currently published on Identi.ca. From
> there they are pushed to Twitter, and from Twitter to Facebook. I've
> been unable to find an Ident.ca client that allows scheduling (they 
> do
> exist for Twitter). 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.
>
> The second option seems nicer to me, because it gives us a common
> shared platform for publishing news. I'm imagining that we'd have to
> install a plugin and create a separate news category for
> microblogging. Potential downside: we clutter the Wordpress install
> with lots of microblogging guff.
>
> Thoughts? Opinions?

hey Allan,

I'm mostly just bumping this up as I finally catch up on email from 
when I was away :)

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...)

karen