[casual_games] Notes from community chat

[Thomas H. Buscaglia]

what about a linkedin group?

At 03:49 AM 11/8/2010, you wrote:

>Note that historically, large FB groups have 

>"lost" something like 20-30% of all outgoing 

>messages. i.e. moderator sends a message to all, 

>but FB doesn't send the message (even internally 

>- never reaches the recipient FB inbox, let alone send out the email)

>

>I used to think this was their internal 

>filtering systems, but they recently (within 

>last 6 months) replaced their messaging system, 

>so maybe it was just bugs, and now it's fixed.

>

>Either way, I would be very cautious about using 

>FB as a primary contact medium. It's simply not 

>their core business, and (understandably) it 

>took a very long time for them to do anything about the problems.

>

>(I used to run a few groups on FB, and this 

>became such a huge problem, we eventually 

>migrated all of them to other websites)

>

>On 8 November 2010 04:17, Ryan Sumo 

><<mailto:endlessthirteen at yahoo.com>endlessthirteen at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Just anecdotal evidence on my part.  In 

>organizing meetups and events locally, I've 

>found that people reply through facebook 

>groups/fan pages in a far more timely 

>manner.  For the most part people would ignore 

>my mass emails, but reply to my facebook messages.

>

>It could just be the fact that more people are 

>on it these days, or that there is a 

>compartmentalization of these communications 

>networks.  I certainly have one business email 

>address (gmail), one personal email(yahoo), and 

>everything else through facebook.

>

>Ryan Sumo

>freelance artist/IGDA Manila chairperson

>portfolio - <http://ryansumo.carbonmade.com/>http://ryansumo.carbonmade.com/

>blog - 

><http://geekofalltrades.wordpress.com/>http://geekofalltrades.wordpress.com/

>IGDA Manila forum - 

><http://tinyurl.com/igdamanila>http://tinyurl.com/igdamanila

>

>

>

>From: Matthew Ford <<mailto:matthew at fordfam.com>matthew at fordfam.com>

>To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List 

><<mailto:casual_games at igda.org>casual_games at igda.org>

>Sent: Monday, November 8, 2010 11:55:47 AM

>Subject: Re: [casual_games] Notes from community chat

>

>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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