I think you are right, Facebook is more something for major news and announcements; a "join us on Facebook" button/tab would suffice, I suppose.
Notis
2009/11/6 Dan O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca:
What if we tried some how adding a tab for "Facebook" at the top of the DM main page, with that tab actually moving you to facebook.com? That would result in it being more integrated into the DM experience (to use Microsoft terminology, for a second), without needing us to duplicate the newsfeed: i.e. keeping facebook's feed for more social announcements?
At the same time, Facebook is both a separate commercial entity and a massive turnoff for some people--so we need to be careful that it is something that (arguably) enhances the DM multi-channel site rather than becomes an essential part of it.
-dan
Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
Il giorno ven, 06/11/2009 alle 17.30 +0100, Dr Notis Toufexis ha scritto:
Why not create a Facebook page that dm-l members can join if they wish to?
It's there already, but severely underused ... perhaps it just needs a little more publicity (and activities ;) You know what's coming next, James, don't you? a request for DM news feed on FB! :)
Ciao
Roberto
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