[casual_games] Notes from community chat

[Matthew Ford]

I'd propose a middle ground. I personally like email a lot more than
Facebook, and any professional should be looking at his or her inbox
regularly. But, very many of the people I teach (at university) and most
that I mentor (a lot of teenagers) consider email something old people use,
a necessary means to validate memberships to web sites, and otherwise is
just a spam collector to be skimmed maybe once a month. Like or hate that
fact, they are not going to change because of us. Until we get them more
firmly into the ancient world of email, I think we need to reach out in any
way we can to keep the IGDA vital. 

So I propose that all IGDA communications, like those of any business,
should be duplicated across all viable channels. Send it in email, and I'll
keep reading it that way. But also send it to a FB group. Link it in a
status update on a FB page. Blog it, with RSS support. And tweet links to
it. Podcast it. The internet really is a series of tubes and we have no
choice but to squirt our brains into every one we can find, to get the word
out. 

Otherwise, it would seem to me like this is 1995 and we are refusing to
embrace a new dehumanizing fad called "email", and sticking to just a
printed newsletter.

I also have to point out that asking this question via an email list is
going to produce a wee bit of preference bias...

--Matt

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