FYI
As reports the G.I.W., "Google grows to become 2nd largest social platform globally." -
http://goo.gl/tNWEm
"Google+, who despite being branded a failure or ghost town by large portions of the media, grew in terms of active usage by 27% to 343m users to become the number 2 social platform. Interestingly for Google,"
Trust me, in 1 more year time, Google+ will be the world's number one most used social media platform platform. The earlier Wikimania jumps onto g+ faithfully and continually, the better. Practically, i hardly see a future in twitter, even facebook is better.
Just a note for those underestimating g+
rex
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, Nkansah Rexford wrote:
That's fine @John.
In case you'll wish to have others help you manage the page, i'll be willing to help.
but for now, you're the
defacto :)
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013, John Vandenberg wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Tisza Gergő <gtisza@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I wish to learn about how much (in $) it cost the managers of Wikimedia
>> Foundation and Wikipedia page on Google+ submit a single post.
>>
>> The instance of time and resources chipped into the act of having a page
>> on Google+, i think doesn't hold. How long will it cost the one posting onto
>> the fb and twitter platforms (in terms of time and energy) to copy, paste
>> and share that same post on Google+?
>>
>> I kind of feel surprised at how time and resources are raised as if its
>> gonna cost WMF 10s of 1000s of dollars to implement that.
>>
>> @James Wikimania DC had no presence on G+. At least, i think Wikimania HK
>> can break that record!
>>
>> The idea of api limitations etc, well, fine! how does that prevent
>> cross-platform posting? There are so many handy and easy-to-use tools
>> available to facilitate that, irrespective of Google not having one
>> themselves. In fact, if there's the will, there's a way
>>
>> I guess, i kind of sense a bit of personal preference in these platforms
>> selection other than seeing them as they should be seen. Critically looking,
>> I can also say that cross posting onto twitter from fb is not necessary
>> since all (if not almost) the users on twitter who follow Wikimania are on
>> fb.
>>
>> i hope this issue is seen as it should, other than concentrating on
>> google's api's, and other factors, that to me, are baseless.
>
>
> Nkansah, if you volunteer to maintain a G+ page for Wikimania HK, or set up
> replication from Facebook, I'm sure the organizers will accept gratefully :)
I am defacto doing that until they tell me not to / or take it over. ;-)
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