[Deptheads] twitter

Tue Dec 20 13:00:43 PST 2011

What about a tweet shortly before each hour about some of the events are
starting that hour?

Mike Fryer

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Tanya Aldrich <tparry at strategicon.net>wrote:

> Thanks Eric, I was about to say the same thing. You want the Strategicon
> tweets to be general to the con, things that could be of interest to anyone
> watching. Mentioning where to find a list of winners, anyone. Specific
> event winners, likely very few. We just need to have more general interest
> tweets. :)
>
> Tanya
>
> On Dec 20, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Eric Burgess wrote:
>
> Totally agree we need more frequent and interesting content. But not 600+
> event results mixed in with the relevant stuff.
>
> On Dec 20, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Taralyn Frasqueri-Molina <
> theunsquare at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  The one thing I can safely say, is that there isn't an impossible to read
> stream of tweets coming from @Strategicon, even during events.  If you look
> back at Gateway 2011, there were 6 tweets on 9/2, 2 on 9/3, 2 on 9/4 and
> none on 9/5 the last day of the event. The account only has 501 tweets. It
> should be well into the thousands. There hasn't been a new tweet since
> 12/12. I think someone should be going around to the game tables, to the
> vendors, to the tournaments, talking to attendees, and tweeting all the
> time. And staying relevant between events may involved tweeting information
> about what's happening in the gaming industry.
>
> I believe Kryssie has the right idea. Content is key. Lots and lots of
> content from one unified channel.
>
> If you go with the additional channels, I suggest they include each other
> in just about every tweet (@Strategicon, @StrategiconLIB,
> @StrategiconTourney etc.) and use #Strategicon liberally.
>
> -TL
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:34:46 -0800
> From: fhoenix88 at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [Deptheads] twitter
> To: deptheads at strategicon.net
>
> You make excellent points.
> I Support your "single tweet every 2 hours" compromise as I do not see the
> benefit of making a seperate "strategicon tourney winners" account since it
> would run into the same spamming issues with floods of tweets where most
> people would not want to sift thru tons of content just to get to stuff
> that is interesting to them. Those that want to can click on it for the
> full post on facebook (as you suggested).
>  V
>
>   *From:* Eric Burgess <erburgess at gmail.com>
> *To:* deptheads at strategicon.net; Victor B <fhoenix88 at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 20, 2011 10:47 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Deptheads] twitter
>
> I have to disagree on the flood of tweets for our regular Twitter account.
> Anyone who regularly uses Twitter knows that your stream can get impossible
> to read when someone is spamming with that much content that isn't all that
> interesting to you. Although tourney winners are interesting to some, the
> bulkload will see it as kind of annoying if we put everything in there.
> Sure, the volume increases during the convention but if we did every event,
> even I'd want to stop following the account. I predict we'd drop a few
> dozen to possibly more than a hundred followers with that strategy. The
> chance of diluting the brand is unlikely - that would suggest people only
> subscribe to one or the other. All of our Strategicon Library followers are
> also followers of the regular account. They just expect  the library
> account to only be active during the convention. The same could be done
> with the Strategicon Tourneys account or whatever. Every new one is another
> opportunity for followers and then they can follow multiple accounts. This
> is a very common marketing strategy in social media because it costs a user
> nothing to add another account to follow. We could hit the regular account
> with big deal items (calls for players in a major event, announcements for
> special events, awards ceremonies, dealer room specials, flea market
> opening, etc.) Those important messages will be lost with hundreds of
> tourney results.
>
> A reasonable compromise is to simply post a single tweet on the Facebook
> account (which hits Twitter, too) every two hours that'll hit Twitter. They
> can then click on it if they want to see the full post on Facebook with all
> the results from the last two hours.
>
> By the way, I don't disagree on the page versus person side on the
> Facebook account - I'll have to just sort out the conversion so we don't
> lose the nearly 1,000 friends we have when converting them to likes.
> Studies show we will lose some visibility based on standard configuration
> changes by changing but it's the proper use of the account. Totally agree
> there and we'll do it.
>
> We don't need another computer - we have the library laptop from which we
> can post to multiple accounts. I think Hootsuite is available on a Mac so
> we can schedule the tweets, too.
>
> ...ERB
> www.boardgamebabylon.com
> www.strategicon.net
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>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Victor B <fhoenix88 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I agree with Kryssie--no special account.
> Our page should be a Fan Page and during the days before ,during, and
> after the con followers expect a heavy load of tweets...that is why they
> are subscribed..to keep up with strategicon....especially during the
> convention.
> And it won't be overkill since most fans like seeing tourney winners
> and only multiple-day tourneys would post pairings on twitter (others pair
> quickly, on the spot, and no need to go type them in after they
> began,,serves no purpose).
> Plus posting tourney results means more people will become followers to
> see their names as winners. People like ribbons, like seeing their names in
> conbook, and they like seeing their names as winners online.
> These ideas to better use social networking are great.
>
>
>
> V
>
>
>    *From:* Kryssie <phantom.hopscotch at gmail.com>
> *To:* deptheads at strategicon.net
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 20, 2011 9:35 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Deptheads] twitter
>
> I disagree on setting up another account for this.  It's what the twitter
> account is for.  People should be expecting us to tweet 600 times during an
> event.  If they're *that* upset over it, then they don't actually use
> Twitter.  It will dilute the brand if you keep adding other accounts for
> this or that.
>
> I really believe we should have a Fan Page (not a profile) on Facebook.
>  The Facebook page and Twitter account can be linked together so that when
> you update one, it updates the other.  Fan Pages are also a bit more
> versatile than profiles and profiles are limited to the number of "friends"
> you can have.  Page likes are either unlimited or so high not even the most
> popular pages can't hit the cap.
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Tim <Tim at stugiii.com> wrote:
>
>  Good thought on the special account.  I think we could swing a computer
> (or a laptop).  Eric is volunteering the staff to implement it.  So it
> sounds doable.
>
> Anyone else have any thoughts?
>
> If we decide to do this, we should be sure to advertise it.
>
> Tim
>
>
> On 12/20/2011 7:47 AM, Eric Burgess wrote:
>
> Neat idea. If we had a dedicated computer for it, we could do it. The
> library could handle it if results were delivered every two hours. We could
> schedule them to come out on a schedule.
>
>  We could also set up a special account to post them because we could
> lose some followers that get annoyed at 600 tweets coming from us in three
> days. We have a separate one for the library noting checkouts and players
> wanted.
>
> On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Tim <Tim at stugiii.com> wrote:
>
>   Has anyone given any thought to posting tournament results (including
> next round parings) via twitter?
>
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