[Media] IVOA facebook info request

[Simon O'Toole]

Hi all,

Just putting in my two cents worth: I agree that we should not be posting job ads on the IVOA social media accounts. Mainly because, as Bruce says, it is often hard to distinguish a VO-related job ad from a non-VO-related one. We don’t want to annoy people with a somewhat arbitrary cutoff (“Why did they post that ad when they didn’t post mine!!”). Also, there is a great Facebook group already for jobs: Jobs for Astronomers.

Cheers,
Simon


> On 19 Jan 2018, at 5:35 AM, Bruce Berriman <GBB at ipac.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jamie,
> 
> Please see below!
> 
> Bruce
> 
>> On Jan 18, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Budynkiewicz, Jamie Anne <jbudynkiewicz at cfa.harvard.edu <mailto:jbudynkiewicz at cfa.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Bruce,
>> 
>> Thanks for the quick input. In hindsight, I was a bit hasty on this. Apologies on that.
>> 
>> Having a “catch-all” for information will, in my view, diminish the impact of our social media efforts.
>> 
>> I agree with this -- we don't want to add too much technical/insider material to the pages.  I feel if the job were strictly VO-related, it'd be fine to post it on facebook or twitter. At least it shows there are jobs for VO-work or ones that request knowledge of VO.  If Marco's job posting is directly VO-related, perhaps we could post something more for the general public on facebook/twitter before hand?  Does that help?  
>> 
>> Or, we can just state the policy, "No job postings on the social media platforms" if that makes the most sense.
> 
> My view is not to do job postings in tis way. It can often be hard to discriminate what is really a VO job from what is not - in the sense that jobs tend to have several roles, and the VO part may be the least significant, and we should not be advertising such. I am, however, happy to listen to alternative views on this topic from the media group.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jamie
>> 
>> Spam <https://canit.ipac.caltech.edu/canit/b.php?c=s&i=01UXRHPhu&m=5edf4d7ddce4>
>> Not spam <https://canit.ipac.caltech.edu/canit/b.php?c=n&i=01UXRHPhu&m=5edf4d7ddce4>
>> Forget previous vote <https://canit.ipac.caltech.edu/canit/b.php?c=f&i=01UXRHPhu&m=5edf4d7ddce4>
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