We all know and love the Recommended Diaries system. The list of recommending users and the elusive goal of reaching the top ten list provide great feedback to the authors of diaries here at Red State.
That’s what the system’s for: feedback. We recognize quality work and make the authors feel good, so they’re encouraged to do more. But what if we want to do more for a good post? What if we want to express agreement or promote it to a wider world?
Some have responded to this desire by organizing recommendations. I submit that this is the wrong approach. Here is what I suggest instead.
The key to promoting Red State’s best (either in the diaries or on the front page) is to promote it outside of the site.
Take it to Facebook, Twitter, or StumbleUpon. Take it to all the other sites listed in the Share This feature attached to every RedState post. If there’s a diary you think needs recognition, or even a front page piece you wish you could recommend, try promoting it off of Red State in this manner.
Pick a few networks you’d like to get active in, and get active. Create a feed, and get people to subscribe to it. Then, start publishing good RS works to that feed. That gets the diaries you like some instant attention.
There’s a wide world out there, and it doesn’t stop at the Recommended Diaries list. So let’s drive traffic to those posts, get them read instead of just trying to get them recognized!
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Is it possible to Digg it?
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 5:26PM EST (link)I don’t know much about such things.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Yup
Neil Stevens (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 5:32PM EST (link)Digg is even one of the ShareThis choices, so it’s all built in.
RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
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Yes, EPU. Click on Share This...
Moe Lane (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 5:32PM EST (link)…and go from there.
The Kim Kardashian of blogging.
Check out my blog at http://moelane.com/.
http://moelane.com/filthy-lucre-filthy-lucre/
http://twitter.com/moelane
My (combined) wish list.
LOL
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 5:47PM EST (link)Destroying whatever reputation I might have had as some kind of internet-savvy whiz kid……
That was too easy.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
I am going to start using Twitter for this
Bill S (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 5:47PM EST (link)I just noticed yesterday that the WSJ has been doing it, and I am now following them….great “real-time” way to catch reco’s like that.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Can you dig it? – Shaq O'Neal (nt)
Neil Stevens (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 5:57PM EST (link)RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
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Dugg
Bill S (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 6:00PM EST (link)just for fun…
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Is there a summary of what each of the "Share This" options are???
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 7:27PM EST (link)I Do this, but I must say, DIGG, etc is VERY TIME CONSUMING and
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Sunday, November 23rd at 9:22AM EST (link)takes away time from Redstate and real life!
only 24 hours in a day
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
So let's split up the work
Neil Stevens (Diary) Sunday, November 23rd at 2:27PM EST (link)Let’s get people to specialize in one or two sites, and distribute all the sites that way.
If a few community members can do that, it’d make so much of a difference. Huge.
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Not sure what you are suggesting
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Sunday, November 23rd at 4:19PM EST (link)Guess I would need to see the whole plan and the goal.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
The goal is to get good RS writing to be read
Neil Stevens (Diary) Sunday, November 23rd at 4:26PM EST (link)The plan is to send out interested RSers to other sites and promote the good RS writing.
RS contributing editor, technical administrator, and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
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I am completely lost
Hermes (Diary) Sunday, November 23rd at 7:53PM EST (link)I have no idea what any of the technical gobbledygook that you guys are talking about is. Twitter? ShareThis? Digg (it?)? I couldn’t even set up my own Myspace page; my wife had to do it for me.
Nonetheless, spreading the yummy goodness that is RS across the Net seems like a great idea. Well said, Neil. Recommended.
Wish I could help
Neil Stevens (Diary) Sunday, November 23rd at 9:01PM EST (link)But there are so many sites out there…
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I'm on Twitter
Bill S (Diary) Sunday, November 23rd at 11:35PM EST (link)I’m with DeVine, though. Digg is a pain.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
BTW - The "RedState" Twitter ID auto-tweets FP articles
Bill S (Diary) Sunday, November 23rd at 11:42PM EST (link)“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
mutual promotion
William Collier Jr (Diary) Monday, November 24th at 9:58AM EST (link)Hey Neil, good seeing you last week. One idea we talked about, and I hope you find useful, is mutual promotion.
Here’s how it works.
You create a club or group of, say, 10 fellow Diarists on RedState. Each of you gets a “day” in which the whole group goes out, using Twitter, Facebook, MySpave, Yahoo Groups., WIKI NEWS, and more to push your Diary entry. With a group of 10 people, doing this every weedkay, you will have some serious promotion at least once every 2 weeks, which is probably more than you are having now.
I am not sure if RedState can set up a tool for creating this mutual promotion clubs, but you can start doing them on your own.
Do you know that 10 people all emailing, posting, linking, and etc. can move almost ANY story out past the media filter?
Look on my diary (Freedomist) where I will talk about these things from the perspective of being one who has USED these techniques.
By the way, I am NEW here to RedState and am glad to be “on board” with yall!
William R Collier Jr.
www.Freedomist.com
backlinks
KBDay (Diary) Monday, November 24th at 1:30PM EST (link)I always link when I can–often I’ll write a column, come here and read and see related material. So I include the link in my context and in my References section.
After all, that’s how the Dems do it, earning page rank and top placement in the process. ‘S all about those links, with Google, Technorati, Sphere and everyone else. Digg is good, but the reading I’ve done there gave me the impression it’s populated and controlled by a large liberal mindset.
KB Day/The US Report
“Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.” (Eisenhower)
Lower tech approach
youthgrunt (Diary) Tuesday, November 25th at 10:38AM EST (link)if these social networking sites are beyond you (I completely understand) is to engage in what my brother-in-law calls “fam spam”–email the link of the article to people in your email address book. It may be a smaller audience than DIGG or other sites, but it may be just as effective–or maybe more effective.
Great idea Neil.
Glad you made it
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, November 27th at 10:06PM EST (link)I do have an idea for how we could do those little circles, technically speaking. However it pretty much has to wait until we get the site stability nailed for good. Which is coming pretty soon now…
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