How to promote Plug's value - was: Are Social Networks ...

[Josh Coffman]

Engaging on social media might be helpful, but I wanted to share that other
tech groups in the valley have started talking about reasons attendance and
engagement seems to have dropped of across the board in the last year or
so. Several of us just had an informal meetup to socialize and discuss the
issue. Maybe it's the economic or political environment, but sounds like
this has affected all user groups regardless of technology. The affect has
been felt in person, on discussion groups, and even social media. At least
that's what I'm hearing and seeing.


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:38 PM, jill <lists at bespokess.com> wrote:

> I know I've said it before so I don't want to beat a dead horse.  But
> there is value in the social media stuff.  Az-PHP, to the OP's point,
> created a Facebook group a little while back and activity has been high
> there.
>
> When I meet people and tell them about PLUG's mailing lists they often ask
> if there's social media sites and seem disappointed that there hasn't been.
>  Like Facebook or not this is how a substantial number of people get
> involved and learn about new stuff these days.  The G+ group is a good
> start, but we should expand on that.  I don't have a ton of free time
> myself right now to take it on due to other commitments, but if there's
> smaller more focused things I can do to help for sure.
>
> Jill
>
> On 2013-05-03 19:00, Brian Cluff wrote:
> > We get together and plan a lot of meetings and events, and one thing I
> > have realized though all of it is that we suck at promotion.  I have
> > suggested on more than one occasion that we start an promotion SIG for
> > PLUG.  I would like to get a group of people together that concentrates
> > on promoting our events and collecting knowledge of what works and what
> > doesn't as well as advertising materials that can be reused.  In the
> > past we have always tried to have the same people that are planning the
> > event try and promote it as well and the promoting always seems to get
> > overlooked.  I think a focused group that doesn't have to worry about
> > anything else could do great things.
> >
> > What do you think?  Anyone want to get good at promoting things?
> >
> > Brian Cluff
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