Social Media

Summary

This page describes how, and what, social media is used by the content team.

Details

Official Dendron presence online (outside of our main content websites published with Dendron):

Dendron on dev.to: A platform for cross-posting blog posts, using canonicalUrl to point to our official blog.
Dendron on Twitter
Dendron on Mastodon: Open-source, distributed and federated alternative to Twitter.
Dendron on Medium: A platform for cross-posting blog posts, using canonicalUrl to point to our official blog.
Dendron on YouTube
Dendron on Reddit
Dendron on LinkedIn
Dendron on Discord
Dendron SmartPage: Landing page for people to navigate to our different websites and social media.

Prerequisites

Password vault access to Twitter Dendron account
Password vault access to Mastodon Dendron account

Steps

Dailies: Morning

From Daily Routine Checklist

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Social media and other checks: First round
- Check in on Discord channels
  - #intros: For any new introductions, create a thread as a response and welcome them to the community. For any threads where they have continued the conversation, make sure to respond if a response is needed.
    - Thread name: welcome-<username>
    - First comment:
```
Welcome to the Dendron party! 🥳 :dendron:
(Include comment specific to their intro, resource links related to what they mentioned, or a short question like "How did you discover Dendron?" if they didn't state that already)
```
  - #environmentalist: For any new questions, make sure to respond. If not knowing how to respond, make sure to post in the #support channel that there is a question in this channel. More info: environmentalist channel (Private).
  - #dendrologist: For any new questions, make sure to respond. If not knowing how to respond, make sure to post in the #support channel that there is a question in this channel. More info: Dendrologists (Private).
  - Any ongoing threads with new responses, or new messages where tagged
- Review/respond to comments on Twitter
- Review/respond to comments on Mastodon

Dailies: Evening

From Daily Routine Checklist

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Social media and other checks: Second round
- Check in on Discord channels
  - #intros: For any new introductions, create a thread as a response and welcome them to the community. For any threads where they have continued the conversation, make sure to respond if a response is needed.
  - #environmentalist: For any new questions, make sure to respond. If not knowing how to respond, make sure to post in the #support channel that there is a question in this channel. More info: environmentalist channel (Private).
  - #dendrologist: For any new questions, make sure to respond. If not knowing how to respond, make sure to post in the #support channel that there is a question in this channel. More info: Dendrologists (Private).
  - Any ongoing threads with new responses, or new messages where tagged
- Review/respond to comments on Twitter
- Review/respond to comments on Mastodon

Weekly

Visit the following for latest comments or questions. These have less activity, which is why they are weekly checks. Generally, these should be checked more often if we've recently shared or uploaded something new, which is when we get the most activity (latest YouTube video, latest blog posts, etc.).

From Weekly Checklist

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Weekly routine checklist for reviewing social media comments and questions

Review/respond to comments on Medium
Review/respond to comments on Reddit
Review/respond to comments on dev.to
Review/respond to comments on YouTube

Blog posts and cross-posting

Whenever a new post is added to the Dendron Blog, we need to make announcements and cross-post to other websites that are configured to use canonicalUrl references.

Prerequisites

Account on Medium, invited to Dendron org
Account on DEV, invited to Dendron org
Account on Reddit, invited to be moderator on Dendron subreddit
Account on HackerNews

Checklist for cross-posting and announcing

From Blog Post Checklist

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Day 1
- post blog
- announce on hacker news
- announce on Dendron twitter
- announce on personal twitter
- announce on relevant reddit/slack/discord groups/individuals
Day 2
- cross post on dev.to
- cross post to medium
- announce on relevant reddit/slack/discord groups/individuals

Reference

Create a LinkedIn account if you don't already have one
Request page owner/managers permissions from one of the page owners/managers
You should be able to post on behalf of the company page, and respond to posts on LinkedIn as the page account

HackerNews

Create an account on HackerNews
This site is also used to post links about the latest blog posts and YouTube videos of interest

dev.to

Create a personal account on dev.to
Request to be added to the Dendron org via an org owner
When posting, you can select that the post is meant to be posted under the org rather than just your personal account
- Bonus: Whenever posting under the org, the post appears in both the Dendron org feed and your personal blog feed on dev.to

Medium

Create a personal account on Medium
Request to be added to the Dendron publication via a publication owner
When posting, make sure you are posting from the Dendron publication
- Bonus: Whenever posting under the org, the post appears as a publication post with your account as the author

Twitter and Mastodon

User/password should be retrievable via our password vault
Request access to the Twitter account from team

To get access to our subreddit, as a moderator:

Create a reddit user account
Request moderator permissions from the team

YouTube

Login to YouTube with your dendron.so account
Once given permissions by a Dendron channel manager/owner, you should be able to upload video to the channel and respond to comments as the channel