Short answer: you can't, and probably shouldn't, directly. There are several services which make much of this process fairly straightforward, though not to Wordpress specifically.
Longer answer: We've just updated the #PlexodusWiki FAQ with a set of questions and answers addressed at this specific issue:
7 Contacts and Followers Migration
7.1 Q: Is there an easy and straightforward way to collect and migrate my contacts and followers to other site(s) or platform(s)? 7.2 Q: How can I preserve contacts information? 7.3 Q: Are there services which will automatically migrate or create new accounts based on existing Community members? 7.4 Q: What's the best way to keep people informed of my new location(s) and be easy to find there? 7.5 Q: What if I / my followers don't want to publicly announce future location(s)?
If you've been around a while you might find some of this stuff a bit strange. For a long time it's been ok to add people's email addresses to communities of interest run round a mailing list. As long as it was done with their implicit agreement, there was a way for them to opt out, and you didn't then spam them. But apparently, adding them to a Social Network is bad form. Even firing off a couple of hundred email invites is now frowned on.
I guess there probably is a route via Contacts and GMail to mass invite the members of a Circle that had a public email address. It's left as a project for the interested student.
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Short answer: you can't, and probably shouldn't, directly. There are several services which make much of this process fairly straightforward, though not to Wordpress specifically.
ReplyDeleteLonger answer: We've just updated the #PlexodusWiki FAQ with a set of questions and answers addressed at this specific issue:
7 Contacts and Followers Migration
7.1 Q: Is there an easy and straightforward way to collect and migrate my contacts and followers to other site(s) or platform(s)?
7.2 Q: How can I preserve contacts information?
7.3 Q: Are there services which will automatically migrate or create new accounts based on existing Community members?
7.4 Q: What's the best way to keep people informed of my new location(s) and be easy to find there?
7.5 Q: What if I / my followers don't want to publicly announce future location(s)?
social.antefriguserat.de - FAQ - PlexodusWiki
If you've been around a while you might find some of this stuff a bit strange. For a long time it's been ok to add people's email addresses to communities of interest run round a mailing list. As long as it was done with their implicit agreement, there was a way for them to opt out, and you didn't then spam them. But apparently, adding them to a Social Network is bad form. Even firing off a couple of hundred email invites is now frowned on.
ReplyDeleteI guess there probably is a route via Contacts and GMail to mass invite the members of a Circle that had a public email address. It's left as a project for the interested student.
Gary Gregory You shouldn't do that without the expressed consent of each follower.
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond the acceptable solution is to post a “Join/Subscribe” link to said community, so that each one may follow through if they so desire.
ReplyDeleteShawn H Corey What is Edward Morbius talking about then?
ReplyDeleteGary Gregory FYI, I agree with Shawn H Corey on this.
ReplyDeleteYou can point people to a new home. Automatically registering them really should not be done.
should always be opt in. Not HOW do I opt out!
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