I think this communication strategy is more than just marketing. Its a way of opening the deployments to further contributors. If we can make the "twitting" part of the recommended deployment methodology, then we will make our efforts more transparent. We already have a very capable and free twitter-like-and-compatible social network called <a href="http://identi.ca">http://identi.ca</a> where which many sugar labs members already use for sharing info. I would recommend checking out the groups !sugar, !sugarco, and !sugarlabsar and !somosazucar. I am trying to aggregate these feeds embedding them into a wordpress instance at <a href="http://somosazucar.org">somosazucar.org</a> hosted in sunjammer. It would be cool if more people got interested in the possibilities of this, which is why I'm copying systems@ In particular, we have thought that an instance of <a href="http://status.net">status.net</a> (the free software behind <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a>) which is more suited for kids (bigger buttons, less options) would be *really* great. Also, 140 characters is too restraining, I would prefer 280 or 420 so that the output will display in 2 or 3 twitts on twitter. A great thing about <a href="http://status.net">status.net</a> is that is a descentralized standard, and it can feed twitter, facebook and others autonomously. Greetings Sebastian <div class="gmail_quote"> 2010/4/15 Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <rmesquita>: 1. List the social network environments/tools (twitters, communities, blogs, widgets, networks) associated with the organization or which deserve its respect that are currently operating in the social media ecosystem; <rmesquita>: 2. Start organizing its strategy for web interactions using a social network tool consisting of twitters and their 140-character twits, which can carry a link (“global bar table”), defining those who represent the organization and its projects; <rmesquita>: 3. Establish or formalize the twitters that currently try to interact in countries with existing projects, project organization, or emerging projects: Uruguay, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and Rwanda. <rmesquita>: 4. Define a way to use Twitter, the social network tool, as an object of education, encouraging children who study on the OLPC platform to open their own twitters, follow the twitters representing the project of their schools, and twitters representing projects of other regions or countries, discussing among them the local impact of the OLPC project. <rmesquita>: This policy of children involvement should be broadly encouraged, even in countries that only have pilot projects. <rmesquita>: 5. Define a way to use the Twitterfeed tool (a RSS connection between different environments of a given individual or his/her fans) to promote interaction among the different local networks that should emerge from this process, giving priority to the dynamic content of Flickr and Youtube. Examples of Friendfeed: a, b and c. <rmesquita>: 6. Define a strategy for the joint use of the Friendfeed social network tool, a free router that helps combine interactions coming from different social network tools (twitter, blogs, communities, and social network applications such as Facebook, Orkut, Peabirus, and others), using RSSs and making this space a reference source for the whole process. <rmesquita>: If this action plan is carried out, it will create dynamics that will be an extension of the platform built on the XO. <rmesquita>: That's it -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list <a href="mailto:Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org">Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing</a> </blockquote></div> -- Sebastian Silva