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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:36:33 -0400
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Subject: Re: ApacheFlex twitter account
From: Nicholas Kwiatkowski <nicholas@spoon.as>
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Have we even identified who has that account right now as it is?

-Nick

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Guthmann, Scott <
sguthmann@on3solutions.com> wrote:

> > Is anyone on this list maintaining this?
> I am not billable & one of the only pure marketing roles on this Dev-list.
> I would be happy to maintain the ApacheFlex Twitter acct; and facilitate
> the messaging either as part of a group or on my own.
>
> > Would it be possible to get occasional updates out on twitter for people
> who aren't sure about joining the ML yet but that might still have some
> interest?
> There were several ideas proposed for: what ApacheFlex should say:
> 1) Commits
> 2) whiteboard activity
> 3) digest of daily activity
> 4) Most interesting discussions
> 5) ideas being passed around
> 6) updates on the project
> 7) messages about the future of Flex
>
> In addition, I think ApacheFlex should:
> 1) Follow Flex developers back (build a community)
> 2) Recruit new volunteers for the project or the various kinds. (build a
> community)
> 3) Mention the twitter handles of those who wrote the patch; reviewed /
> committed code; updated a wiki; wrote a new feature; developed an
> application example; wrote & set up a unit test. (recognition of
> contribution)
> 4) respond to inquiries, forward inquiries to the appropriate party,
> retweet as needed. (build a community)
> 5) Tweets localized messages (I think ApacheFlex knows & communicates in
> lots of different languages because it is a global project) The google
> translator is a quick way to set these up. (build a community)
>
> With the help of *each* person interested in this discussion topic who
> write a few (5 - 10 prepared tweets) I can set up & maintain this account
> via hootsuite quickly.
> I have already have a social media marketing campaign running in this
> topic area with the @On3solutions twitter account.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts about this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Guthmann
> Direct | 303.885.9485
> E-mail | SGuthmann@On3solutions.com
>

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