I have argued for a while that a person or org’s social media communications need to be planned and designed to be easy to find. I wrote a piece on linkedin, reprising an original on my sun blog called “Are blogs still useful?” .
My answer is that they are and that content should be put on a web site, and then distributed using social media. would seem to be the obvious choice as a commercial offering but becomes quite expensive, for vanity projects, if more than three channels are required. On my sites, I use an auto-poster plugin, and i.e. next scripts’ snap activityPub for those sites that support it.
Otherwise, one might like to consider using forum management software to provoke engagement. Wordpress has most of the tools one would want, although again, the SAAS offering becomes quite expensive, for personal sites, if one is particular about which themes and plugins one requires.
Over the last few days’ I have come across https://postiz.com/ which claims to be an open source multi-channel poster, and was reminded of , a community development project, which I think I’ll look at, but my first choice today would be WordPress. I experimented with their bulletin board plugins, vote counting, user admin plugins and have even used Disqus as a comment manager on my first, [ https://decidim.org/first-steps/ ] blog.
As well as cost, there is the community benefit and karma in using open source products.
Originally published at https://www.linkedin.com.
