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== Promoting existing content == There is a lot of exciting content on Appropedia suitable for promotion. So far, we mostly do this through [[Appropedia:Social media|Appropedia's social media channels]] (Twitter, Identica, FB, G+, and to some extent Flickr and Youtube). We need to identify the most influential channels in terms of our desired outcomes - in particular, attracting likeminded people who will use and contribute to Appropedia. And having greater energy for this through your help, we can have a greater impact. Possible methods are listed below. Feel free to dive straight in, but keep in touch with your mentor, who has some experience and can point out some dead-ends time sinks to avoid. * Contacting suitable blogs and sites online. * Posting to relevant communities. Be sure you're adding value and keeping the communities happy. This could include: ** Sustainability forums, of which [http://www.permies.com/forums Permies] is probably the most relevant and Appropedia-friendly (and it's very active). ** Joint blog/news sites such as [http://www.thegreenpages.com.au/ Green Pages Australia]. Keep it relevant - look for the site's area of focus. * Contacting publishers of newsletters, with content of relevance to their focus. This involves identifying the best and/or most popular content, and the most interesting new content each month. (Use [[Special:PopularPages]]; Facebook Likes & G+ "+1's" (how do we find the top pages this way? there's a small socmed research project); shares on socmed (search Twitter, FB, G+); and see what recent service learning classes have created. * Pick a new page each week to promote. Start with the mainpage. I would love to talk with you Daniel about various methods to do this. You can start seeing the current buzz about appropedia with the following tools: * Facebook. Note that building a community on Facebook itself isn't practical, and isn't our aim. We just aim to raise Appropedia's profile and let people know what we're doing, and where to come to find more cool stuff. ** Search appropedia on facebook looking through posts by everyone. Where possible, affirm that enthusiasm and share extra info that might be of interest. Maybe point them to the Appropedia page on FB. * Search [http://twitter.com/#%21/search/appropedia appropedia]and [http://twitter.com/#%21/search/appropedia.org appropedia.org] on twitter. * Search [http://www.google.com/search?q=appropedia+-site%3Aappropedia.org&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=appropedia+-site:appropedia.org&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=nZY&tbo=1&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&output=search&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:w&sa=X&ei=YxOJTozjH_HSiALEtOSuDA&ved=0CAYQpwUoAw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=84c58f105e12c753&biw=1366&bih=649 appropedia -site:appropedia.org on google] with the time set to past week or past 24 hours to get an idea of what people are talking about. * Set a Google alert for ''appropedia -site: appropedia.org'' or try subscribing to the [http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/18116925732258623905/15575710446343458731 this RSS feed]. * Engage with existing sites where Appropedia is often mentioned - e.g. [http://builditsolar.com/ builditsolar.com] and [http://permies.com/ permies.com]. * Look for more sites - any sustainability forum could be a place to start threads.
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