Re: Microblogging Workflow

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Karen Sandler <karen gnome org> wrote:
...
> > I really need a way to schedule
> > microblogging posts.
...
> > This leaves two options that I can see:
> >
> > 1. Change our workflow so that we publish posts on Twitter and push
> > them to Identi.ca from there. Then use a Twitter client with
> > scheduling capabilities.
> >
> > 2. Use the gnome.org Wordpress install to schedule microblogging posts
> > and push them to Twitter.
...
> This sounds like a good plan to me - is it easy to use the Wordpress install
> in that way? I think it would be worth the inconvenience to be able to do
> this. I'm not a microblogger by nature, but it's really important we have
> that kind of content out there (and I usually think of things to microblog
> long after they're relevant, and think darn...)
...

I've tried a couple of Wordpress plugins for posting to Identi.ca, but
these are generally focused on sending updates when you publish a blog
post, and none of them really fitted the bill. Identi.ca itself does
have a feature that allows you to generate messages from an RSS/Atom
feed (which we could generate using Wordpress), but the feature isn't
working for me, for some reason.

I'm also starting to think that using Wordpress as a microblogging
platform is just wrong. :)

The only thing I've found which is able to do what we need is
Tweetdeck. I'd be really happy to use that on a shared GNOME account.

Allan
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