Questions tagged [publicity]
Use this tag for discussions on how to publicise and promote this site.
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Announcement: Genealogy Stack Exchange gets award
The Genealogy and Family History Stack Exchange site has been awarded Honourable Mention in the Best Genealogy Product of 2012 category in Tamura Jones' GeneAwards 2012.
honourable mention: ...
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Coordinating Publicity
I'd like to use this question to help coordinate the publicity of GFH during beta.
We need everyone to help where you can. The goal is to get the word out to as many different people as possible ...
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I'm Submitting a Presentation about G&FH SE to RootsTech 2016
Genealogy & Family History SE needs a bit more notice by genealogists.
Today, I got notice of the RootsTech 2016 Call For Presentations. I was at RootsTech in its 2nd year (2012), in its 4th ...
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Recruiting new members to G&FH.SE from Facebook?
I just noticed a "Genealogy, Just Ask!" Facebook Group
It has 45,000 members. Admin is Robin Foster. She has a webpage for it at www.genealogyjustask.com and it is so big, it has even formed smaller ...
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What makes this site unique?
If we're expecting members of this community to publicise it effectively, it might be helpful to give them a few tools to use.
One of these is our 'Elevator pitch' which has already been discussed: ...
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How to sell strength of Stack Exchange platform to larger genealogy community?
I haven't had enough gumption to work on my own research lately, so to fire up my imagination and take a bit of a break, I've been watching videos on YouTube, particularly the Ancestry.com videos that ...
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Q&A “pushes” around Who Do You Think You Are Live and RootsTech
Duncan suggested at "Publicity" centered on 'events' and the bigger question of events in general that we do Q&A pushes around 'specific events' and there are two major events ...
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What is GFH missing to retain experts?
Looking over the total page views image shown from this original data mining question:
The bump in views was presumably due to two genealogist blogs posting about the site. So we have visitors coming ...
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How does the G&FH Twitter account work?
The G&FH Twitter account currently has 14 followers. Do you think it would be a good thing to also "follow" some of the big genealogy buffs that are adept at utilizing social media? The account ...
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Should we be 'targeting' user communities?
what-is-gfh-missing-to-retain-experts puts forth the argument we need more experts, and at least several of the answers propose we need more questions. One issue this site has is a chicken and egg ...
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Style Sheet proposal: Consider sharing, previews when writing question titles
I would like to propose that we tighten up our question titles where possible. I know I've written some long, rambling titles, and I'm trying to go back and shorten them. It's not easy for me, but I ...
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Promote geneaogy.se at family gatherings
We have a small family gathering today and a larger one next Sunday (Easter). My hope is to grab a few interested family members and have a 'mini genealogy.se party' during the larger gathering. I don'...
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Ads for G&FH on other SE sites
As we're not a graduated site, we can't have community promotion ads on our site at this point. What we can do is create adverts for G&FH that show up in the sidebar on other related sites in the ...
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RootsTech 2013 - volunteer for leading publicity
Regarding this Coordinating Publicity question, that says "Mar 21-23, 2013, need a volunteer to lead publicity" what does that mean? What would a volunteer going to RootsTech 2013 be expected to do?
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Making a promotional video for G&FH SE?
What do you folks think about creating a short promotional video for the site? It could be posted to YouTube, and then easily shared on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. It seems that videos ...
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Promotional ads for Genealogy.SE!
Although we're still in beta, ads to promote our site in the genealogical community are important. They should sell what GFH.SE is all about as concisely as possible. Because we haven't yet graduated, ...
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Promotion: writing articles about G&FH for gen. society newsletters
There have been questions on G&FH about the benefits of joining genealogical societies, but this article by Terri O'Connell reminded me about the awesome opportunity members have to submit ...
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Are we ready to advertise?
Do you remember the email you got when we entered public beta? It said:
Tell all your friends, blog about it, tweet about it, and write the
URL (http://genealogy.stackexchange.com) in chalk on ...
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Should we have another publicity push?
I don't have access to what statistics SE uses to determine if genealogy.se is trending up or stagnating. I only have my aperiodic looking at beta home page. From an unscientific analysis of that data,...
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“Publicity” centered on 'events' and the bigger question of events in general
The se blog post does-this-site-have-a-chance-of-succeeding says:
"Joel suggested a healthier alternative by rallying users around
specific events as a catalyst for asking interesting questions ...
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How to use WeRelate's genealogy contest to promote Genealogy.SE
WeRelate runs a weekly genealogy contest to promote WeRelate. Is there anyway we could leverage this to promote Genealogy.SE? For example, we could ask questions on the main site about the person so ...
