Live in South Australia? Registered on Facebook?
IMPORTANT AND BIG NEWS!
Over the last few nights I became the new ‘Head Admin’ for the Redbubble Adelaide/SA group upon Facebook. It happened out of a conversation about administrators upon our Redbubble group, and was quite unexpected … yet I am glad to take on the role!
Therefore:
If you are a registered member on Facebook AND a Member of Adelaide/SA on Redbubble,
I encourage you to join Redbubble Adelaide/SA on Facebook !
Then you can publicise your Redbubble gallery !
Consequently I’m now looking for FIVE new Admin’s to join me on both Redbubble and Facebook. I need your help to…
... [1] regularly moderate artwork submitted on Redbubble;
... [2] help run the existing roles upon Redbubble that have lain dormant for the last six months;
... [3] choose from members submissions for a new photo image to represent the Facebook group;
... [4] help think of great ways to publicise, market, and promote our artists upon both Facebook and Redbubble;
... [5] and readily take on new duties as they arise! (Finding sponsorship/prizes, running redbubble competitions, etc)
I hope I haven’t scared anyone, but rather inspired members to become more actively involved with the ONLY group that is fully dedicated to displaying the character, landscape, architecture, heritage and life of South Australia.
I look forward to seeing you all Facebook!
Stephen Mitchell
OK, this article was an experiment to see how you all would react. So far only a handful of people have seen and read, yet nobody has yet commented. This neither hurts nor worries me, but it is interesting.
Subsequently, I will leave this article here another SEVEN days to see if anyone else has anything to say. If nobody has volunteered after that, I am deleting the Facebook group.
I’ve learnt in the last 24hours that Redbubble belongs on Redbubble, not on Facebook.
Andy G Williams
Hi,
After searching in vain for people, my opinion of Facebook isn’t that great. Now this is probably because I’m an old fart, as are the people I’m looking for, so I am biased.
I agree more with your last sentence.
Thats my 2p’s worth
Good luck
Cheers
Stephen Mitchell replied
Thanks Welshman, your comment makes me feel young again!
catdot
Hey Stephen, I enjoy FB for touching base with my friends on my personal page, and then the wider community of ‘friends and their friends’ through my business page. I consider RB a world of it’s own and don’t necessarily feel the need to touch base with redbubblers over in the different realm of FB, as the networks are already building here. It just seems a double-up to me. If a redbubbler tells me they have a fb page and it showcases work different to their RB portfolio then i would take a look for sure. That’s really the purpose of my business page on FB, to show the more personal work i do for families and weddings etc that i don’t necessarily want to fill my RB portfolio with as it’s not for sale.
OK, thanks for listening, and appreciate your conversation about it and the prompt to offer my opinion rather than just read the journal entry!
Stephen Mitchell
That’s really the purpose of my business page on FB, to show the more personal work i do for families and weddings etc that i don’t necessarily want to fill my RB portfolio with as it’s not for sale.
I see your point Cat, and I have done similar, tho I don’t any more. I had a gallery on Facebook of personal shots, some from our home when the kitchen was renovated. But I won’t upload any more photographs unless I figure that i will do me no harm to release them to the general public.
catdot
And my personal page is not open to the public anyway so i’m not concerned with them being seen. My business page shots are still ‘professional’ ones, in the sense they were done for clients and all approved for web use, and it’s much easier to put them up on a FB page then to add them to my ‘official’ website. The range of pages and marketing is working for me in my part-time/casual capacity…for now anyway!
MuscularTeeth
read my friend, thoroughly would love to support as an admin but relise im over-commited at the moment as is..
Stephen Mitchell replied
Peter, I know how busy you are, so it’s cool!
georgiegirl
Its possible that not many saw this message appear back in July because of how fast the activity monitor updates… I missed this one too. But its on the front page of our group now, so you should get more response!!!
I originally thought FB would be good for advertising, but now tend to just brag about stuff, add links and keep in touch with my friends and family (and the little games are pretty cool too). Mind you, most of the people in my friends list are bubblers or zazzlers… the rest close friends and family members!! So pretty useless for advertising cos those that aren’t addicted to, I mean members of RB just roll their eyes at me cos I tend to yap about RB so much… well. I don’t think its that much but apparently, to others it sounds like I talk about RB and art ALL the time!!!! Plus I’ve got my privacy on FB so locked tight… I’ve think creating a “page” for people to be fans of is the way to go but haven’t done it yet. That day job keeps needing my time!
Some clever bubblers like Webgrrl have all their blogs and worlds connected somehow, so that when they type into Twitter or FB, it updates everywhere at once!
And in FB you can make applications and/or games out of our own artwork too (its also on my todo list) and that in itself is another form of advertising. Whether it works is another thing entirely, but most people like games!!!!
So all in all, FB can be really useful… Better go join that group you’ve got for us South Aussies and see what you’re all up to! But sorry, I won’t be an admin person… good luck with that!!!
Denzil
I tend to agree that RB business is RB business, and FB business … well, you get my drift. I find I only have enough time to support one web-based community engagement, and I much prefer RB, because I’m not very interested in the overall level of banality on FB!! Do I care what someone just had for dinner? No.
And like welshman, I’m an old fart and I’ve never really ‘got’ FB.
Good luck with it if you go ahead – I’ll certainly drop in!
SelinaJ
am on both but use FB only for keeping touch with close friends and family who all have my RB info anyway. Just wanted u to know i did see it and read it!!