Bill & Ted said "Promote Each Other"
Jo stuck her foot out for me to trip over and I landed in a host puddle at Promote Each Other. So, I thought that it was well within my hostly rights to promote Promote Each Other to you :D
The premise of Promote Each Other is simple – basically, you join and take advantage of the social blogging and/or book marking resources that you might use every day for promoting other Red Bubble artists. We’re not looking for people who are more concerned with promoting themselves exclusively because we believe that by promoting each other, we will create a flow on effect that will benefit all who sail the good ship Red Bubble.
You may not be aware of the crazy Web 2.0 phenomenon that is social media. Here is a handy list that you might like to browse if you’re considering joining the 21st century (I kid!):
Bebo
Face Book
Jaiku
Last.fm
LinkedIn
Live Journal
MySpace
Orkut
Plurk
Pownce
Twitter
Vox
Then again, you might be a seasoned internets maven with Web 2.0 coming out the wazoo!
What we’re after is a bunch of good sorts who love to tag, bookmark and blog their way through the internet; and are committed to raising the profile of their favourite Red Bubble artists. If you think that you’re a most excellent candidate, take a gander here.
(Also, if you want to join Plurk and be my friend with minimal effort – use this link. Basically, it earns me “stars” and “karma”. Cool huh!)
Paul McClintock
So many to choose from!
Natalie Perkins replied
There are actually way more than that – these are just the most popular ones!
Paul McClintock
Hopefully there’s some kind of cross platform aggregator for all this. A widget or something.
Natalie Perkins replied
I use friendfeed and SocialThing which pretty much do the same thing. SocialThing is invite only, but I have two invites if you’d like one. I actually prefer friendfeed though.
Paul McClintock
I like this promotey idea… sounds like fun.
Paul McClintock
I’ll have a look at both, thanks.
Paul McClintock
SocialThing looks pretty cool… I tried using Spokeo, but now it’s asking for money! Fudge that!
Natalie Perkins replied
Don’t pay money for anything!!
Jules Campbell
Invite me then will ya!! Its a great idea and am up for the challenge so bring it on!!
Jules Campbell
Ok scrub that..didn’t click on the link because it says ‘invite only’ in the ‘promote each other’ group ..when I did I then read the guff about how to become a member….I will read on – sorry to keen to sign up and help :(
Natalie Perkins replied
We have a “recommend this user” section in the forum, I will totally recommend you!
Jules Campbell
PS link should say “see the rules and application process here”
jemimalovesbigted
Oh my god my head is going to explode and I am no computer or web dunce! How do you find the time to maintain all these Natalie and your blog? I find it difficult enough to maintain my bubble account….. You are the queen of socialising that is for sure! I bow to your superior interaction…..
So for a time poor individual such as myself, which do you think is the BEST platform to use? Unfortunately being a mum, having 2 jobs and going to uni only limits me to one! Fill me in, and I will do my limited, yet no less enthusiastic bit to promoting all my favourite artists out there in Bubble land, cause I believe in Karma! =)
Natalie Perkins replied
Well, probably del.icio.us, StumbleUpon or Digg because they are social book marking tools and they don’t take a lot of time to maintain because they’re basically like having bookmarks except they’re on the web.
Del.icio.us takes pretty much zero time up in your life because you just install the little buttons on your browser and every time you come to a page you want to save you hit the button, add tags and you’re done.
StumbleUpon is similar, but what you do is review pages you like and give them a thumbs up so other stumblers can come across them. Stumbling takes a bit more time than del.icio.us though.
Digg is very powerful, it has the potential to bring a lot of visitors, but you tend to need a lot of people digging the same page in order for that to happen.
jemimalovesbigted
I will look into it! Thanks Natalie….