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What is the best way distribute the NDSA message to the wider world? What social media tools, services and processes should the NDSA utilize? Twitter? Facebook? Slideshare? Vimeo? Flickr? Others? We need Outreach WG members to set up these accounts if we choose to use them.

Twitter

The NDSA has a new twitter site: https://twitter.com/NDSA2.

Please consider posting often so that (as we all begin to post) we can reflect this RSS feed as one way to tune in to NDSA organizational and member initiatives. Please follow http://twitter.com/NDSA2 if you are an active twitter-er.

To log in and use the NDSA Twitter feed:

1. Go here: http://twitter.com/NDSA2
2. login:

user name: NDSA2 password: bkfacbk41

3. Enter your update, question, or reflection and hit return. Adding a link to a blog postsor other types of on-line materials that your update is related to is particularly useful.

Contact Carol Minton Morris (cmmorris@fedora-commons.org) if you have questions on using this feed.

This site follows NDSA twitterati (those who posted during the July 2011 summer NDSA meeting):

@nealstimler
@anapratt
@phonedude_mln
@michaelmoody84
@j450nk
@myleejoseph
@hvdsomp
@saverkamp
@briaz861
@archivemedia
@paoloman
@hsommers
@litbrarian
@spd2000
@jackbrighton
@nypl_labs
@GuWa
@kglover02
@PSleeman
@cherylmckinnon
@kboughida
@jeffersoninst
@joansm1th
@digiphile
@timoreilly
@mpedson
@freegovinfo
@amandafrench
@duraspace
@sleonchnm
@mcdonald
@hhockx
@glenclatworthy

If you are not using the NDSA account, feel free to add the hashtag #NDSA to your regular tweets.

Facebook

Do we want an NDSA Facebook page? Members of the NDSA, especially the Outreach Working Group, are encouraged to post interesting items and comment on the NDIIPP Facebook page.

This work can start already without establishing an NDSA-specific foothold in the market. Join the conversation on the NDIIPP Facebook page(anyone can post!). If you tweet, please include the hashtag #NDSA when appropriate so that we can start building the NDSA brand on Twitter.

The main task of curating NDSA members is to put together the list of twitter users this kind of thing would track to generate it (Carol Minton Morris has begun a list of NDSA Outreach members, but we should go farther afield and query the NDSA membership for Twitter users of note) and a few volunteers to check the queue every once and a while and push things live."