Re-reading the various مضامین about promoting کلب on Fanpop, it occurred to me that some fairly basic ideas were missing for promoting the کلب آپ like (not just the ones آپ create, but any کلب آپ enjoy).
Many of the گزشتہ etiquette مضامین and فورم threads have described things to avoid in promoting a club, as well as suggestions for things to do. For once, I'm not going to rant about undesirable behavior (that's the plan, anyway), but just keep the focus on other things شائقین can try to promote their پسندیدہ clubs. This was last edited on 27 March 2009.
Prolog: Encouragement
Before I begin, I just want to say that the number of شائقین in a دیا club is not a reflection on آپ یا the worth of your topic of interest. So you're the only پرستار of Pre-Columbian Cuban architecture currently on Fanpop - so what? You know it's a great topic, and in filling a club with great content about that topic, آپ make it مزید likely that actual شائقین of the same subject will find your club AND شامل میں it. But having شائقین for the sake of having a larger head count is not, to me, a desirable goal. Even if no one else discovers your club immediately - یا people discover it, but choose for whatever reason not to شامل میں it - that doesn't mean that it's not a good club, and it doesn't mean that آپ can't enjoy the topic on your own. There's no need to promote clubs: your audience will find the کلب that interest them, sooner یا later. But, if آپ really can't wait and want it to be sooner (right now! right now!), please continue for some ideas on how to do that.
PROMOTING ON FANPOP
آپ want to encourage people to find your club and شامل میں it. There are a number of ways to do so on Fanpop that may be obvious, but also haven't been explicitly described in other مضامین یا fora (at least none I've seen).
Answer Requests
One of the newer features on Fanpop is Fanpop Answers, a sort of knowledgebase where users can ask genuine سوالات for other users to provide detailed and fact-based answers. The cool thing about this feature for club promotion is that there are many users who skim through the link for the sole purpose of finding something they can answer. These users are very avid and eager to help; they will typically delight in reading your Answer Requests to see if they can provide answers, and in so doing will discover the club where the request resides. A note of caution, however: these same users will happily رپورٹ mis-categorized یا just plain bad answer requests (and then maybe make another complaint about "users misusing the feature" thinly disguised as a pick in the Fanpop Users club!). For tips on how آپ might use the Fanpop جوابات feature, try reading the جوابات to link.
There are many other features that آپ can use on the site that will work similarly (which have been mentioned elsewhere): lots of users skim the site looking for تصاویر to rate, lots of users obsess about the super quiz, and many others love to browse through picks to provide their opinions.
Events
If there's a special event coming up in the اگلے few days related to the club's topic, آپ can also try to get a spot in the Fanpop spotlight and/or Pop Culture section on the site's سب, سب سے اوپر page. The spotlight is a فہرست of fifteen کلب that have special new events coming up: five are for TV-related clubs, five are for film-related clubs, and the remaining five are for everything else.
The Pop Culture فہرست is an ongoing فہرست of noteworthy events and news related to کلب (you can see the مزید حالیہ Pop Culture ڈیٹس اپ link). If آپ feel that the event related to the club is noteworthy, آپ can use the "contact us" link at the bottom of any page and write a request to the Fanpop staff. While there is no guarantee that the club that interests آپ will beat out all the other clubs, other users have done this successfully in the past, and who knows? The Fanpop staff has to generate the فہرست from somewhere. If آپ don't tell them about the event, there's practically NO chance that it will be listed.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not abuse the "Contact us" link with requests to feature a club in the Spotlight when there is no event یا special news related to that club. Doing so will be like the boy who cried بھیڑیا in the classic fable: on the دن that آپ may actually have a legitimate request for time in the spotlight, the staff may reject آپ out of hand if you've burned them enough with random inconsequential requests. So use it sparingly and only for legitimate Big News events related to the club.
PROMOTING OUTSIDE OF FANPOP
This is where I feel the مضمون gets really interesting, as these features have yet to be mentioned anywhere in a discussion about club promotion. We talk about promoting کلب on Fanpop a lot, but how do the millions of potential شائقین of the club who aren't on Fanpop find out about it? Don't rely on the whims of a تلاش catalog to bring people to your club!
Share the club with friends
Every club on Fanpop has an "invite friend" link in the upper right, just under the banner and the club-specific تلاش bar. Click this link to get to a form where آپ can enter your friends', relatives', and/or co-workers' e-mail addresses and with a click of the mouse, send them an invitation both to your club and to Fanpop in general. Chances are that آپ know at least a handful of people who share the same interests as آپ (or at least have significant overlap in interests). If any of those people are interested in the club's topic and aren't already شائقین of the club, use this feature!
Secondary bonus: if your friends/family/co-workers register for Fanpop while viewing the site after following the link in the e-mail آپ sent, you'll get a credit in your پروفائل that آپ have "successfully invited X users". That way آپ can gauge how many of the people you've invited have actually found something they liked.
Share the content with friends
Every type of content on Fanpop can be shared with others as an ایل آر یو that they can then use to see just that specific content. آپ would want to do this when آپ aren't sure that friends/family/co-workers would jump at the chance to read whatever's available on a particular club's topic, but might be very interested in a very specific thing. Until today, almost all content on the site had a "share this link" link which led to a form very similar to the "invite a friend" feature, above, except that it pointed directly to the content on Fanpop. This link still exists for much of the content on the site, but in many cases, it has been replaced یا supplanted with the "bookmark and share" feature, which can still be used in the same way (just select "e-mail" in the فہرست of options in the rollover menu). Note that where neither the "share this link" یا "bookmark and share" feature is available, آپ can still copy the ایل آر یو on any page (yes, including فورم threads) and paste that into your own e-mail message, thereby accomplishing the same thing.
Post لنکس to the wider world
The "bookmark and share" feature also allows آپ to post a blurb about certain types of content to many other web sites آپ may already use, such as link, link and link. That way, if the people آپ know on those sites look at your entries, they'll see both a link to the content آپ like in that club (with description, if the user who گیا کیا پوسٹ the content provided one) and an invitation to try Fanpop.
When آپ post a link to such sites, it's not targeted in the way that e-mail is usually targeted, to specific people آپ know, but rather is like posting to a bulletin board, and anyone able to read that board has the option of checking out the content and possibly joining the club where that content is posted.
Now, of course آپ can post لنکس to those sites yourself, as well as to myriad other sites which aren't included in the فہرست of the "bookmark and share" feature, such as a personal web log یا journal. If آپ have a dedicated audience for your blog, chances are that many of them will also be interested in the کلب on Fanpop which interest you.
Signatures, clothing, and word of mouth
Lastly, there are many other ways that آپ could promote a particular club, یا even just Fanpop itself, on the theory that the مزید users شامل میں the site, the higher the likelihood that some will شامل میں the کلب that interest you. Reasonable estimates (*) put the number of Fanpop users in several hundred thousands: even the largest fan-base کلب on the site are a tiny fraction of that number. This suggests to me that any particular user is مزید likely to find whatever کلب interest him/her as شامل میں the most مقبول clubs. The مزید people شامل میں the site, the مزید likely آپ will have fellow شائقین in the کلب that interest you.
Most e-mail clients include the capability of adding a signature automatically. آپ could consider having your signature mention the club آپ want to promote. For instance, I might append the following to my messages.
**************
Best regards,
Harold
I'm a Whovian. Are you? Check out the "Doctor Who" پرستار club on Fanpop: link
**************
Signatures are easy to turn on and off, as well as to edit. Some e-mail clients will even prompt آپ whether to include your signature with each message, giving one the ability to somewhat control which audiences receive your promotional blurbs.
Fanpop merchandise is another great way to expand awareness of the site. The Fanpop staff have an link, and some users made Fanpop stuff before such a site existed. Whether bootleg یا official merchandise that benefits the site's creators (and helps keep the site running - buy official merchandise!), parading around displaying the Fanpop logo can only help to draw people to the site.
Saving the best for last: the best way to promote anything is سے طرف کی word-of-mouth. Speak to the people آپ contact throughout the دن about Fanpop and the club that interests you, and those people will be مزید likely to check out the site on their own, as well as click any لنکس they see آپ provide them online. Talk up your clubs; challenge your دوستوں to take the Pre-Columbian Cuban architecture quiz, admire the پرستار art you've posted, یا play the فورم game that was started.
These are just a few ideas on how to promote کلب that interest آپ which haven't been mentioned and shouldn't cause other Fanpop users to have conniptions.
**************************************
For مزید ideas about club promotion, check out the following links:
link
link
link
Many of the گزشتہ etiquette مضامین and فورم threads have described things to avoid in promoting a club, as well as suggestions for things to do. For once, I'm not going to rant about undesirable behavior (that's the plan, anyway), but just keep the focus on other things شائقین can try to promote their پسندیدہ clubs. This was last edited on 27 March 2009.
Prolog: Encouragement
Before I begin, I just want to say that the number of شائقین in a دیا club is not a reflection on آپ یا the worth of your topic of interest. So you're the only پرستار of Pre-Columbian Cuban architecture currently on Fanpop - so what? You know it's a great topic, and in filling a club with great content about that topic, آپ make it مزید likely that actual شائقین of the same subject will find your club AND شامل میں it. But having شائقین for the sake of having a larger head count is not, to me, a desirable goal. Even if no one else discovers your club immediately - یا people discover it, but choose for whatever reason not to شامل میں it - that doesn't mean that it's not a good club, and it doesn't mean that آپ can't enjoy the topic on your own. There's no need to promote clubs: your audience will find the کلب that interest them, sooner یا later. But, if آپ really can't wait and want it to be sooner (right now! right now!), please continue for some ideas on how to do that.
PROMOTING ON FANPOP
آپ want to encourage people to find your club and شامل میں it. There are a number of ways to do so on Fanpop that may be obvious, but also haven't been explicitly described in other مضامین یا fora (at least none I've seen).
Answer Requests
One of the newer features on Fanpop is Fanpop Answers, a sort of knowledgebase where users can ask genuine سوالات for other users to provide detailed and fact-based answers. The cool thing about this feature for club promotion is that there are many users who skim through the link for the sole purpose of finding something they can answer. These users are very avid and eager to help; they will typically delight in reading your Answer Requests to see if they can provide answers, and in so doing will discover the club where the request resides. A note of caution, however: these same users will happily رپورٹ mis-categorized یا just plain bad answer requests (and then maybe make another complaint about "users misusing the feature" thinly disguised as a pick in the Fanpop Users club!). For tips on how آپ might use the Fanpop جوابات feature, try reading the جوابات to link.
There are many other features that آپ can use on the site that will work similarly (which have been mentioned elsewhere): lots of users skim the site looking for تصاویر to rate, lots of users obsess about the super quiz, and many others love to browse through picks to provide their opinions.
Events
If there's a special event coming up in the اگلے few days related to the club's topic, آپ can also try to get a spot in the Fanpop spotlight and/or Pop Culture section on the site's سب, سب سے اوپر page. The spotlight is a فہرست of fifteen کلب that have special new events coming up: five are for TV-related clubs, five are for film-related clubs, and the remaining five are for everything else.
The Pop Culture فہرست is an ongoing فہرست of noteworthy events and news related to کلب (you can see the مزید حالیہ Pop Culture ڈیٹس اپ link). If آپ feel that the event related to the club is noteworthy, آپ can use the "contact us" link at the bottom of any page and write a request to the Fanpop staff. While there is no guarantee that the club that interests آپ will beat out all the other clubs, other users have done this successfully in the past, and who knows? The Fanpop staff has to generate the فہرست from somewhere. If آپ don't tell them about the event, there's practically NO chance that it will be listed.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not abuse the "Contact us" link with requests to feature a club in the Spotlight when there is no event یا special news related to that club. Doing so will be like the boy who cried بھیڑیا in the classic fable: on the دن that آپ may actually have a legitimate request for time in the spotlight, the staff may reject آپ out of hand if you've burned them enough with random inconsequential requests. So use it sparingly and only for legitimate Big News events related to the club.
PROMOTING OUTSIDE OF FANPOP
This is where I feel the مضمون gets really interesting, as these features have yet to be mentioned anywhere in a discussion about club promotion. We talk about promoting کلب on Fanpop a lot, but how do the millions of potential شائقین of the club who aren't on Fanpop find out about it? Don't rely on the whims of a تلاش catalog to bring people to your club!
Share the club with friends
Every club on Fanpop has an "invite friend" link in the upper right, just under the banner and the club-specific تلاش bar. Click this link to get to a form where آپ can enter your friends', relatives', and/or co-workers' e-mail addresses and with a click of the mouse, send them an invitation both to your club and to Fanpop in general. Chances are that آپ know at least a handful of people who share the same interests as آپ (or at least have significant overlap in interests). If any of those people are interested in the club's topic and aren't already شائقین of the club, use this feature!
Secondary bonus: if your friends/family/co-workers register for Fanpop while viewing the site after following the link in the e-mail آپ sent, you'll get a credit in your پروفائل that آپ have "successfully invited X users". That way آپ can gauge how many of the people you've invited have actually found something they liked.
Share the content with friends
Every type of content on Fanpop can be shared with others as an ایل آر یو that they can then use to see just that specific content. آپ would want to do this when آپ aren't sure that friends/family/co-workers would jump at the chance to read whatever's available on a particular club's topic, but might be very interested in a very specific thing. Until today, almost all content on the site had a "share this link" link which led to a form very similar to the "invite a friend" feature, above, except that it pointed directly to the content on Fanpop. This link still exists for much of the content on the site, but in many cases, it has been replaced یا supplanted with the "bookmark and share" feature, which can still be used in the same way (just select "e-mail" in the فہرست of options in the rollover menu). Note that where neither the "share this link" یا "bookmark and share" feature is available, آپ can still copy the ایل آر یو on any page (yes, including فورم threads) and paste that into your own e-mail message, thereby accomplishing the same thing.
Post لنکس to the wider world
The "bookmark and share" feature also allows آپ to post a blurb about certain types of content to many other web sites آپ may already use, such as link, link and link. That way, if the people آپ know on those sites look at your entries, they'll see both a link to the content آپ like in that club (with description, if the user who گیا کیا پوسٹ the content provided one) and an invitation to try Fanpop.
When آپ post a link to such sites, it's not targeted in the way that e-mail is usually targeted, to specific people آپ know, but rather is like posting to a bulletin board, and anyone able to read that board has the option of checking out the content and possibly joining the club where that content is posted.
Now, of course آپ can post لنکس to those sites yourself, as well as to myriad other sites which aren't included in the فہرست of the "bookmark and share" feature, such as a personal web log یا journal. If آپ have a dedicated audience for your blog, chances are that many of them will also be interested in the کلب on Fanpop which interest you.
Signatures, clothing, and word of mouth
Lastly, there are many other ways that آپ could promote a particular club, یا even just Fanpop itself, on the theory that the مزید users شامل میں the site, the higher the likelihood that some will شامل میں the کلب that interest you. Reasonable estimates (*) put the number of Fanpop users in several hundred thousands: even the largest fan-base کلب on the site are a tiny fraction of that number. This suggests to me that any particular user is مزید likely to find whatever کلب interest him/her as شامل میں the most مقبول clubs. The مزید people شامل میں the site, the مزید likely آپ will have fellow شائقین in the کلب that interest you.
Most e-mail clients include the capability of adding a signature automatically. آپ could consider having your signature mention the club آپ want to promote. For instance, I might append the following to my messages.
**************
Best regards,
Harold
I'm a Whovian. Are you? Check out the "Doctor Who" پرستار club on Fanpop: link
**************
Signatures are easy to turn on and off, as well as to edit. Some e-mail clients will even prompt آپ whether to include your signature with each message, giving one the ability to somewhat control which audiences receive your promotional blurbs.
Fanpop merchandise is another great way to expand awareness of the site. The Fanpop staff have an link, and some users made Fanpop stuff before such a site existed. Whether bootleg یا official merchandise that benefits the site's creators (and helps keep the site running - buy official merchandise!), parading around displaying the Fanpop logo can only help to draw people to the site.
Saving the best for last: the best way to promote anything is سے طرف کی word-of-mouth. Speak to the people آپ contact throughout the دن about Fanpop and the club that interests you, and those people will be مزید likely to check out the site on their own, as well as click any لنکس they see آپ provide them online. Talk up your clubs; challenge your دوستوں to take the Pre-Columbian Cuban architecture quiz, admire the پرستار art you've posted, یا play the فورم game that was started.
These are just a few ideas on how to promote کلب that interest آپ which haven't been mentioned and shouldn't cause other Fanpop users to have conniptions.
**************************************
For مزید ideas about club promotion, check out the following links:
link
link
link
I am not here to lecture آپ yet again on تصویر crediting. I am done with that.
I am way past the lecturing and into downright grrrrrr-ville.
آپ already know full well that taking something آپ did not create and not giving full credit to the owner is theft. Your excuses mostly boil down to laziness at this point.
So.
This is my public notice that any and all تصاویر with no credit to the original owner of the image will be rated harshly no matter how great the picture is... یا how much I normally like you.
Additionally, if there is a blatant Copyright notice right there on the damn picture and آپ still failed to credit the owner, I'm reporting it to Fanpop -and- notifying the owner of the image that آپ چرا لیا, چوری کی it.
Enough is enough.
I am way past the lecturing and into downright grrrrrr-ville.
آپ already know full well that taking something آپ did not create and not giving full credit to the owner is theft. Your excuses mostly boil down to laziness at this point.
So.
This is my public notice that any and all تصاویر with no credit to the original owner of the image will be rated harshly no matter how great the picture is... یا how much I normally like you.
Additionally, if there is a blatant Copyright notice right there on the damn picture and آپ still failed to credit the owner, I'm reporting it to Fanpop -and- notifying the owner of the image that آپ چرا لیا, چوری کی it.
Enough is enough.
here are some motto's that i have either made یا have gotten from things i've seen!
Anyone who's never made a mistake has never tried anything new! - Albert.A. Einstein
Always be yourself, unless آپ can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn!
Always be you, because eevryone else is taken - Anonymous
ill post مزید when i find more!!!
these are for eeryone to use so feel free to put them up, but plz put my نام کا صارف with them cuz i wanna get some credit for it plz!
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Anyone who's never made a mistake has never tried anything new! - Albert.A. Einstein
Always be yourself, unless آپ can be a unicorn. Then always be a unicorn!
Always be you, because eevryone else is taken - Anonymous
ill post مزید when i find more!!!
these are for eeryone to use so feel free to put them up, but plz put my نام کا صارف with them cuz i wanna get some credit for it plz!
im need to make this longer so heres some random stufff
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A few منٹ پہلے I thought of a partial answer to the حالیہ outbreak of internet trolls we've had over the last few moths.
Ladies and Gentlepoppers, I introduce to you:
The ATSOF (The Anti Troll Squad Of Fanpop)
This will be a society of fanpoppers who work together to justly rate any content which has (without reason) been rated low.
My plan is to make an ATSOF Spot; if a spot یا particular piece of content has been rated low آپ can alert the ATSOF spot about this and some of the "fans" of the spot will head over to the content and rate the content fairly, therefore boosting the rating.
Please tell me what آپ think; I don't want to create a Ghost-Spot-to-be
Ladies and Gentlepoppers, I introduce to you:
The ATSOF (The Anti Troll Squad Of Fanpop)
This will be a society of fanpoppers who work together to justly rate any content which has (without reason) been rated low.
My plan is to make an ATSOF Spot; if a spot یا particular piece of content has been rated low آپ can alert the ATSOF spot about this and some of the "fans" of the spot will head over to the content and rate the content fairly, therefore boosting the rating.
Please tell me what آپ think; I don't want to create a Ghost-Spot-to-be
If we make a new spot we want to make it popular. Recently I made a new spot so when I wanted to send a message to all my دوستوں about it I got tired of typing individual messages so I quit. So we should be able to send one message to all our دوستوں at the same time if necessary. Also there should be an area that says "new spots" on the ہوم page so that people can see what has been recently created and if they want to شامل میں the particular spot. It would really make the people who created the spots happy because they could get some good publicity.
سے طرف کی the way I made a new spot about Kal Penn, the indian guy from the وین wilder movies, Harold and Kumar go to white castle, and Epic Movie.
So if u like those فلمیں check it out. all آپ have to do is type "Kal Penn" in the تلاش engine" (obviously, I know)
Also this soapbox was ment for the fanpop spot
سے طرف کی the way I made a new spot about Kal Penn, the indian guy from the وین wilder movies, Harold and Kumar go to white castle, and Epic Movie.
So if u like those فلمیں check it out. all آپ have to do is type "Kal Penn" in the تلاش engine" (obviously, I know)
Also this soapbox was ment for the fanpop spot
Hello to everyone,
my name is Inès, and I'm French.
As a lot of آپ know, Paris has been attacked yesterday سے طرف کی terrorists. The کنسرٹ hall "Le Bataclan" has been attacked during a concert.
128 dead and مزید than 200 wounded are for now counted. This is a tragedy.
I was born and I've lived in Paris, and I often go there and to the Bataclan to attend concerts, and seeing this, is just awful. The whole country is shocked and desperate.
3 national days of mourning have been declared.
I invite آپ to leave a few words, thoughts for the victims of this disaster.
Thank آپ <3
my name is Inès, and I'm French.
As a lot of آپ know, Paris has been attacked yesterday سے طرف کی terrorists. The کنسرٹ hall "Le Bataclan" has been attacked during a concert.
128 dead and مزید than 200 wounded are for now counted. This is a tragedy.
I was born and I've lived in Paris, and I often go there and to the Bataclan to attend concerts, and seeing this, is just awful. The whole country is shocked and desperate.
3 national days of mourning have been declared.
I invite آپ to leave a few words, thoughts for the victims of this disaster.
Thank آپ <3
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end of part 2