I suggested to Bryen publishing to a webpage on another server, that page could then be re-published on any number of other wesites likely using include or frames tags. Doing so can preserve original "pretty" formatting or apply site formatting.

Will that work on Facebook, too?

Tony

On Friday, August 19, 2011, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) wrote:

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Στις 20/08/2011 02:37 πμ, ο/η Bryen M. Yunashko έγραψε:

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On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 00:28 +0300, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr) wrote:

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Στις 19/08/2011 11:30 μμ, ο/η Bryen M. Yunashko έγραψε:

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Love Facebook?  Hate Facebook?  Like it or not, its here to stay and we have to live with it.  :-)

So, some observations this week and I'm wondering if we can create some solutions.

1.  Our news articles are automatically posted to our openSUSE Facebook Page.  This same function does not work for our openSUSE Group (which has a lot of members.)  Publishing on the Group page requires manual work.

If you look at the publication on both places, you will notice the automatic publishing function is pretty ugly.  Compare to our manual publishing on Group, its very nice.  We can select which graphic to use and it includes an excerpt from our article.  This makes it much more attractive and hopefully people will read it more.

Do we know of a way we can fix our automatic publication to be more like the manual publication?

2.  I've discussed this with a couple of people so far this week.  I'd like to see more automation of spreading our word on Facebook.  My idea is that we create an openSUSE Facebook App that will automatically publish our articles on your personal wall.   This would be voluntary because people would choose to install the app or not in their Facebook profile.

Does anyone know if such a design is possible and knows how to create it?   I think this has great potential for us.

Thanks, Bryen M Yunashko openSUSE Marketing Team

Regarding no1, there's a tool called RSS Graffiti. This works fine for me to both openSUSE and Gnome. It shows that the group publishes and not the user. To set up, must be admin of the page.

But does it publish it in a pretty way?   Look at our automatic publishing on the openSUSE Page.  It is an ugly post.   Now look at the manual publishing on the openSUSE Group.  It is a pretty post including excerpt and we can choose which graphic to show.

Can you point me to the examples on GNOME?  I looked at all their groups and pages and I don't see the example you're mentioning.

Bryen

I use also the tool http://dlvr.it/ You can choose to publish a spesific picture (eg the lizard). That's what we do for gnome group. Our pages for gnome are:

https://www.facebook.com/gnomegr?sk=wall

https://www.facebook.com/groups/gnomegr/

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