New to Twitter

If you are new to Twitter then try reading A Beginner's Guide to Twitter. Feel free to ask any questions you have on the OFBiz mailing lists (user@ofbiz.apache.org).

Apache OFBiz Twitter Feed

• The ApacheOfbiz twitter feed is displayed on the main project website.
• Will other community members want to also display this feed? (e.g on their own websites????) - TO DO : A question on the mailing list? / FOLLOW UP QUESTION - Which mailing list to use?? (User or Dev??)

Twitter Content

See below for some more detailed information about the Twitter Account

English will be used as the main language for Twitter.

• Relevant information form ASF / Linux Foundation / Open Source News
• Companies / Organisations and also individuals ??
• Aim to always use community member individual names where possible (Previously there was a concern regarding the marketing of integrator companies -so hopefully this will resolve these concerns)  
• Community and community building related comments

 roject related information:

• Releases  and related information (e.g. end of life for a release???)
• Technical information - eg. Groovy update etc?? (or is this too detailed?)
• Committer / PMC role information
• Contributor / Contribution information
• Events - ApacheCon / OFBiz Meetups / Other Opensource events where Community or project will be present

Documentation

• Release of new documentation
• Tutorials
• How to

OFBiz News

• When someone selects OFBiz for implementation
• When someone goes live with an OFBiz related implementation (Need to be careful here that OFBiz itself gets recognition)

Community

• Community Days
• Colloborative work ??? (e.g when 2 or more community members work together on something???)
• Humour / Jokes

How to Promote Apache OFBiz on Twitter

• Follow the @ApacheOfbiz account and help re-tweeting the messages from our account
• Follow other members of the OFBiz community and help amplify their tweets about their work on OFBiz and OFBiz related events.
• Watch out for tweets about OFBiz and respond to question and requests for help with OFBiz
• Monitor the #OFBiz, #ofbiz (NOTE: Do we need to standardise on one of these????)  hashtags and use it when you post OFBiz related items
• Keep it positive

How Not to Promote Apache OFBiz on Twitter

• Do not negatively criticize other communities, people or vendors
• If someone reports a  bad experience with OFBiz, offer help - but don't criticize them for reporting their findings or giving their opinion. Gentle corrections of fact are OK.
• Don't be boring. There are many things linked to OFBiz and you will get more attention on Twitter if you talk about subjects and re-tweet other people's messages about things other than OFBiz.
• Don't use NSFW language