[technology taskforce] At-Large Social Media Posts

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

Dear All,

Just to mention that blog posts at the At-Large Social Media Wiki Space at
https://community.icann.org/display/alsocialmedia/At-Large+Social+Media+Posts

or https://community.icann.org/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=alsocialmedia

are being reshared to the ICANN At-Large Community page on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/icann.atlarge

and the ICANN At-Large Twitter account at
https://twitter.com/ICANN_AtLarge

As of August 13 2013, there were 22 posts.

Things to note:

* preformatted text inserted into the blog post when copied and pasted
by At-Large Staff when forwarding the emails from ALAC_announce.

This can be offset by using programs such as PureText for Windows
http://stevemiller.net/puretext/ or FormatMatch
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/formatmatch/id445211988?mt=12
which are freeware programs to remove the formatting when copying and
pasting text.

* ability to reedit posts. The current setting is for content to be
reshared within an hour. This interval can be adjusted. This can be
used to tweak information and also update posts when new information
has been received.

* the challenge to explain what is being asked of At-Large (or why
should they care)
Consider the original text that went to ALAC announce list at
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/alac-announce/2013q3/002827.html
and the blog post I submitted at https://community.icann.org/x/2VV-Ag
where I attempted to explain what the proposed ALAC statement was about.

Some possible approaches:

* updating the templates for the various types of announcements that
are posted on ALAC_announce. Examples of templates
- ALAC vote announcements.
- ALAC vote results
- ICANN news alerts
- Meeting notices

I've started a Acronym Helper which contains background information
about the various acronyms used so far.
https://community.icann.org/display/alsocialmedia/Acronym+Helper
Obviously this needs to grow and can be used as a reference in posts.

See https://community.icann.org/x/0FV-Ag as an example of using such
background references and a possible template for meeting
announcements. Note that the ability to use HTML formatting that could
include HTML tables, video, audio or pictures allows for better
presentation of material than plain text as ALAC_announce currently
does.

- With new templates that attempt to simplify and enhance the
presentation of emails from ALAC_announce, At-Large Staff and/or/with
a possible curation WG as mentioned on the last TTF call attempts to
redraft the text that is published. The challenge is that this would
take more time for Staff and/or/with the possible curation WG to do.


Thoughts?

Kind Regards,

Dev Anand Teelucksingh