Promotion / Buzz
Flaburgan
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The v0.1.0.0 is coming soon, I think it could be great to promote it when it will be out, by writing a post per day using the DiasporaHQ account presenting a feature / awesome bug fix.
I think in general we do not use enough the DiasporaHQ account. I'd like to see more people with access to it, for example @Goob. We should create a little buzz for this new version, and try to interact more with our users.
Flaburgan Thu 16 May 2013 6:07PM
As I'm not a native speaker, I did not write a big post, it's only 7 small ones which describe a feature of the new release, with a screenshot.
See http://wiki.diaspora-project.org/wiki/Buzz_posts_release
(Please, correct any error in english you find. These posts were tested with the previewer and should be nice displayed)
Flaburgan Fri 17 May 2013 7:49AM
So what do you think? I post it with my account, or with DiasporaHQ?(@seantilleycommunit but also the others :p)
DiasporaHQ is the best solution for me
Steffen van Bergerem Fri 17 May 2013 9:53AM
I agree. DiasporaHQ should be the best solution.
Jason Robinson Fri 17 May 2013 10:23AM
+1 for posting those from DiasporaHQ. WIll try to read through them in a few hours :P
goob Sat 18 May 2013 2:41PM
@flaburgan - this is great work. Thanks.
I hope you don't mind, I've gone through and made some edits. Mainly little corrections to the English, and also I have added more descriptions of the features. (Hopefully these descriptions are accurate!)
A couple of suggestions, which I haven't actually changed:
- remove the totally over-used (and also regional) word 'awesome'. If it must be used, just use it once, perhaps in the 'overview' post, something like 'the new release includes some awesome features', but I'd vote for dropping it completely, as it adds nothing, runs the risk of 'over-selling' the release, and in any case the 'awesomeness' of the features speaks for itself.
- not sure about #fuckyeah as a tag, although it made me laugh. (Ditto #awesome here.)
Hope my edits and suggestions are useful.
Jason Robinson Sun 19 May 2013 8:32AM
So are we ready to release? Sean, could you either give posting rights to DiasporaHQ account (Twitter, Facebook too) - or do the posting yourself for now?
I'd say no more than one post per day - otherwise the the efficiency of getting the message across goes to waste. And then everyone reshare/tweet/share like hell :)
Ps. Diaspora* official Google+ account would be needed too imho. Sean or appointed social media persons? :)
diasp_eu Sun 19 May 2013 8:44AM
https://alpha.app.net/diaspora is free - take it!
Flaburgan Sun 19 May 2013 11:24AM
@diaspeu I have a 404 with your link...
@goob I don't know what to think about "awesome". In Mozilla, everthing done is directly qualified as "awesome", don't know if it's too much or not..
Flaburgan Sun 19 May 2013 11:51AM
@goob I don't think we should list the feature in the first post, let's create the buzz by putting suspense!
Sean Tilley · Thu 16 May 2013 5:36PM
@flaburgan You rock. Message me the posts you want to post on D*, and we can discuss where the posts might fit best. Really, it depends on the length of the posts, and the content of them. If the posts are long enough, we could probably just put them up as either Blog or News entries on the upcoming project site.