Re: G+PostgreSQL Advocacy

Hi John:

I'm working on a couple things for our user group, including an upcoming
meeting in August. I will be posting to the G+ community for these
events, and I will make sure I post to the community anytime I add
anything to our web site that is of interest.

Thanks,

-Ben Milliron
Organizer - Central Pa PostgreSQL User Group
http://www.centralpapug.org

On 7/28/2014 7:48 PM, John Graber wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> So, this is just kind of an "FYI" note to everyone on the list for no
> specific reason beyond, "Well, this is the advocacy list and these are
> people that might care to know such things!"
>
> A few months ago, Thom pinged me about co-managing the G+ profile for
> PostgreSQL (and therefore the G+ Community as well). I happily jumped
> at the chance, as I'm quite the staunch advocate of G+ (in spite of
> the stigma it undeservedly has, imho), and as much as I enjoy Postgres
> it seemed a no-brainer for me. And today, for no particular reason, I
> thought it worth noting the following:
>
> As I write this, our Twitter feed has 3,821 followers.
>
> By contrast, we have 9,710 following our Google+ page
> <https://plus.google.com/+PostgreSQL/posts>, and 3,159 people in its
> G+ Community <https://plus.google.com/communities/116371937400081693174>.
>
> I wanted to point this out, as it's not unlikely that G+ is probably
> flying under (or off) your radar in spite of the fact that there are
> plenty community members on Blogger and/or Gmail and/or YouTube. And
> if you've never considered it before, I wanted to encourage you to
> share your blog posts, YouTube presentation videos, and so forth; on
> the Community page. A recent share of one of Dave Page's interviews,
> for example, proved quite popular.
>
> On a related note — As Kris & Gabrielle have recently graciously
> (unwittingly? ;) ) allowed me to volunteer to get a G+ presence going
> for Postgres Open, I'm hoping to get some more synergy going in the
> realm of Postgres advocacy on Google+ with just a little more cross
> posting between organizations and events, as well as a little more
> activity from community members from time to time — even if it's just
> posting your latest blog post to drive more traffic to your blogs.
> That would be a win for Postgres, in my mind.
>
> Various other IT communities and topics are quite popular and active
> on G+. Take Python, for example, with a community of over 100,000.
> And personally, I'd like to see us surpass the 7k+ MongoDB community
> at some point soon ;)
>
> That is all. Carry on. Thanks for you time!
>
>
> — John
>
>
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>
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Ben Milliron
Organizer/Member
Central Pa PostgreSQL User Group
http://www.centralpapug.org