Joe, That's great. I think the Ambassador need to keep up the tweets, idenit.ca, friendfeed, facebook, and myspace posting for the next couple of weeks. I know I am going to start blogging as well. But that is great, everyone should be proud of work was done. :) Pup On 11/13/09, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb@zonker.net> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> wrote:
Zonker, could you tell us the URL? It was not obvious to me...
sudo zypper in psychic-powers
;-)
Sorry - not sure where my brain was at. The link is here:
http://en.opensuse.org/In_the_Press
Some additional stats:
- We made the front page of Digg yesterday and received more than 3,000 reads from that alone.
- We were on Slashdot. No idea how many reads there.
- The openSUSE Facebook group grew by about 200 members this week
- About 1,000 people confirmed to "attend" the 11.2 virtual launch on FB
I use bit.ly to shorten URLs because it allows you to track info about who clicks, etc. Here's the URL I was asking people to use all week:
2,177 total clicks on the link. It was tweeted 110 times, shared on Facebook 153 times, "liked" 40, and received 128 comments.
The United States is much more into Twitter & Facebook! :-)
The link received 690 views in the U.S., only 106 in Germany, 103 "other," 72 in Brazil, 71 in India, 70 in Japan, 68 U.K., etc.
Here's the Bit.ly link for the final announcement: http://bit.ly/info/27wSLw
So far, 631 clicks on that. 100 Tweets, 46 shares on FB Again, the U.S. far outpaces all other countries here.
Lesson? If we want to increase our presence in North America, social media is key. Reaching people in Europe we need to focus on more traditional media.
More next week. I'll do a "wrap-up" after the weekend to see what else pops up. I know of a few more stories pending and this is just "phase 1"
We (and other projects, and companies) make the mistake of focusing on a strong launch, with little follow up. The next few weeks I'm going to be focusing on a continual low-level hum of articles, etc. about openSUSE and developing more materials to promote 11.2 over the next 7 months or so.
This is something I do hope other folks are going to be helping with. :-)
Best,
Zonker
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