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New to Twitter
If you want to get access to the Twitter account, please email private@ofbizare new to Twitter then try reading A Beginner's Guide to Twitter. Feel free to ask any questions you have on the OFBiz mailing lists (user@ofbiz.apache.org. You must be a PMC member to be granted access.
If you only want to post one or two things then you can send the link or details to the @ApacheOfbiz account with a request to tweet it.
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Apache OFBiz
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Twitter Feed
- The ApacheOfbiz twitter feed is displayed on the main project website.
- Will other community members want to also display this feed? (e.g on their own websites????) - TO DO : A question on the mailing list? / FOLLOW UP QUESTION - Which mailing list to use?? (User or Dev??)
Twitter Content
Usage Guidelines - What information can be tweeted? - (NOTE THAT: Apache Cloudstack has a great page on Social Media Do's and Don'ts that we could use as a template.... Social Media Guidelines and Twitter)
Tweet Languages
- Main language will be English but our community is diverse.
- We have PMC members that speak French, Dutch, Italian - so we can allow relevant tweets in other languages. Jacques Le Roux: seems we will rather use only English, TODO set the rule within PMC
Re-tweeting
- English will be used as the main language for Twitter.
- The account will be used to tweet information based on the following areas:
- General Open Source (e.g. Linux Foundation, Open Source News etc)
- Apache Software Foundation
- OFBiz (e.g. Project News and Current Discussions, Releases, Events / Meetups, Tutorials, OFBiz implementations Announcements)
- Community (e.g. Collaboration, Communication Building Related Comments, Humour?? )
- ASF / Linux Foundation
- Companies / Organisations and also individuals ??
- Aim to always use community member individual names where possible (Previously there was a concern regarding the marketing of integrator companies -so hopefully this will resolve these concerns)
- Community and community building related comments
Project related information:
- Releases and related information (e.g. end of life for a release???)
- Technical information - eg. Groovy update etc?? (or is this too detailed?)
- Committer / PMC role information
- Contributor / Contribution information
- Events - ApacheCon / OFBiz Meetups / Other Opensource events where Community or project will be present
Documentation
- Release of new documentation
- Tutorials
- How to
OFBiz News
- When someone selects OFBiz for implementation
- When someone goes live with an OFBiz related implementation (Need to be careful here that OFBiz itself gets recognition)
Community
- Community Days
- Colloborative work ??? (e.g when 2 or more community members work together on something???)
- Humour / Jokes
What we won't tweet?
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How to Promote Apache OFBiz on Twitter
- Follow the @ApacheOfbiz account and help re-tweeting the messages from our account
- Follow other members of the OFBiz community and help amplify their tweets about their work on OFBiz and OFBiz related events.
- Watch out for tweets about OFBiz and respond to question and requests for help with OFBiz
- Monitor the #OFBiz, #ofbiz (NOTE: Do we need to standardise on one of these????) hashtags and use it when you post OFBiz related items
- Keep it positive
How Not to Promote Apache OFBiz on Twitter
- Do not negatively criticize other communities, people or vendors
- If someone reports a bad experience with OFBiz, offer help - but don't criticize them for reporting their findings or giving their opinion. Gentle corrections of fact are OK.
- Don't be boring. There are many things linked to OFBiz and you will get more attention on Twitter if you talk about subjects and re-tweet other people's messages about things other than OFBiz.
- Don't use bad, offensive or inappropriate language