[OLPC-Philippines] Facebook interaction

[Jerome Gotangco]

Let me verify the availability of the venue first by the end of the
day. Would be best to know who is coming as well since we need to
provide a list to the building admin.

Jerome

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Carlos Nazareno <object404 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sandeep, Cherry.
>
> I was wondering if some of us more active members could get higher
> privilege access at the OLPC Ph facebook group so that we can better
> engage facebook group members/volunteers?
>
> For important announcements, the facebook group's "send message to
> members" feature can be used to buzz group members.
>
> Since people on facebook are usually members of multiple groups, most
> of the discussions at the facebook OLPC page are being missed and lost
> in the noise of facebook data. One would have to actively visit the
> OLPC Ph facebook group page in order to see what's up, and just by
> looking at the facebook page interaction history, we can see that the
> passive approach is not that effective for engaging the community.
>
> Even starting discussions or posting at the wall isn't enough.
> Important topics/announcements have to be pushed to group members in
> Facebook.
>
> That being said, should we invite additional people who are interested
> on the meet at the 31st? (facebook)
>
> Thing is, I think Jerome asked permission for only around 15 people
> max for the G2VC tech bar venue.
>
> On the other hand, there are other people who are really interested,
> we just haven't done a good enough job at evangelization yet.
>
> For example, there are only 78 members in this mailing list which is
> really small. Jerome, most of those other friends I told you about who
> signed up at the old archived "telenovelish" OLPC Ph wiki page and are
> genuinely interested in OLPC aren't members of the mailing list, no
> wonder I wasn't hearing from any of them. We can also send a shout out
> to ph-cyberview too for local IT leaders who may be interested.
>
> Given the venue capacity tho and the need for initial direction so
> that chaos doesn't ensue, I guess we shouldn't just invite the entire
> Metro Manila yet for the meeting (you know naman us Pinoys and our
> amazing social networking reach hahah).
>
> So what do you guys think?
>
> I'll see about inviting a few of my close Linux/educator friends
> who're longtime OLPC aficionados if that's okay.
>
> I got a couple of buzzbacks from Philweavers members also for the site.
>
> I'll get back to them.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Naz
>
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