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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Social Network Team Planning 2nd April 2016, 2:50 pm | |
| Hello everyone! I would like to present a plan I came up with to keep our social media active. We had a team before 3 mods became admins and I would like to confirm if you still want to be part of the social media team and which platform would you like to use.Current team Salior Venus (leader) Sailor Mercury [pending confirmation] Sailor Jupiter [pending confirmation] Addelyn Gemma Hikari-Chan Sailor Neptune [pending confirmation] Current Plarforms Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/The-Galaxy-Cauldron-Forums-) Tumblr (http://thegalaxycauldronforums.tumblr.com/) Twitter(https://twitter.com/GalaxyCauldron) Instagram (soon) Deviantart(http://gc-forums-da-group.deviantart.com/) [soon]
Social media advertise request
Platform distribution
| Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr | Instagram | Main | Hikari-Chan | Sailor Venus | Addelyn | -
| Backup | | | Gemma | - | | Small Lady | Small Lady | Small Lady | - |
Platform graphics updates
Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr | Instagram | May 19th, 2016 | | April 19th, 2016 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Times & content For each platform I would like at least 5 post per day that way we keep all accounts active and this is very important for this plan to work: like, reblog, retweet at least one post with your personal account. With Facebook is different to reach more people without paying but sharing is caring =). I would like post to be at least 60% forum material, this means take random threads and say something funny about it (this is to get attention from people it usually works on twitter) and post it on social media, for tumblr we're gonna need more help because of graphics, so I would like to create a thread or a gdrive pool with graphics that we can re-use easily also I would like to use old graphics. I know that each platform has different sizes but I will help with those too =). The 40% can be used for original content or reblog, retweet, repost material from others, unfortunately or fortunately those gather more attention so pick news, fanarts of anything that will help reach those famous pages. Note: This is not something set on stone, this is just to focus more on forum material since we want more people to join us =) Examples of original content Social media sizes Twitter banner: 1500x500px Twitter profile: 500x500px Twitter post: 1198x594px Facebook profile: 500x500px Facebook header: 851x315 Facebook post: 800x800px and 1000x688px Facebook add: 1200x628px Tumblr
Graphics To do list (all platforms)
-Livestream 2016 (for facebook mostly) -Welcome new members to GC (all platforms) -RPG general (all platforms) -We are 'the galaxy cauldron forums' (all platforms) -General guilds graphic (all platforms)
Graphics pool (all platforms) Facebook General - manga club ~ Tumblr Twitter General - livestream ~ Manga coloring tutorial ~
Extra information Tumblr, some twitter apps and Facebook have the option to schedule, if anyone needs it I will gladly do a video showing you how to do it. Keeping up with social networks requires time. If you are committing to this and find yourself unable to follow through later on down the road, please contact me immediately as we can find a back up or another person to take over. If you have suggestions or questions please leave them here in this thread. GO TEAM GO! =D - Old information:
This is the planning/discussion thread for the Social Networking Team as we discussed at the Moderator Meeting on April 1st 2016.
What is to be expected/how this will work:
Time: Keeping up with social networks requires time. If you are committing to this and find yourself unable to follow through later on down the road, please contact Sailor Mars or me immediately as we can find a back up or another person to take over.
Other Helpers Beyond Staff: As of right now, until we get things organized, off the ground and running smoothly, this will be open to staff. In the future, if we deem it necessary and feel there is enough members on the forum able to commit to it, we will open up applications for more helpers.
Quantity of Posts: With how fast paces social media is, we will need to try to have at least one post per day, if not more, if we want to keep our audience engaged and interested in our content and forum. However, the content can vary on the posts from site adverts to SM news, merch, community spotlights, etc.
Division of Duties We would like to have 2-3 team members per platform. One member would perhaps concentrate on merchandise posts, news, etc while the other would concentrate on site orientated adverts. This will be something that needs to have clear goals and expectations on what your duties are.
Site Advertisements: We will create a thread for Staff (only for the time being, we can open it up to the public if we feel its necessary) to request adverts for events, threads, etc. They will first request an graphic advert from Mercury then they will post their ad request with the graphic and information. It would then be posted across all the various accounts, with adjustments to the post depending on the platform.
There is also premade general site adverts that I would expect to see used and posted 1-2 times a week.
I would also like to see maybe other things like member spotlights of their fanarts or otaku creations, etc. This is something we can work on how to approach and what things we should look for in this thread.
Original Content:
This is something that was discussed and I think would be beneficial to help with our forum. However, I will keep this as optinal because this would be the most time consuming aspect of the social networks. Original content can refer to merch reviews, episode discussions, gifs, unboxings, etc. This is something we can further discuss for ideas in this thread.
We will work on the best way to organize and coordinate this between all the team members so we can make sure ad requests are makiing it across all platforms. Content beyond that can vary between the different platforms based on what works best for it. We will most likely use something like google sheets and a main thread on the forums for this but other ideas are appreciated too.
List of Volunteers So far:
Admin: Sailor Mars - leader of this shebang Small Lady - Will help post where needed/can do on all sites
Henshinyo - Tumblr Addelyn - Tumblr Haine - Twitter Batgirl - Facebook
We are most certainly open to anyone else who wants to help that was not at the meeting. This is not strictly for the Silver Crystal Moderators to do, this is an invitation for all staff members to help out if they so choose so.
This thread is for further discussion/planning/ideas for this and once we get things in place, we will make sure everyone has access to the proper platforms.
Thanks and I look forward to see this take off!
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Addelyn Lotus Crystal
Title : GC's Official Nephrite Posts : 8024 Join date : 2012-08-04 Age : 34 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 2nd April 2016, 3:00 pm | |
| I can reblog stuff from other SM blogs in between doing site stuff. |
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Sailor Venus Inner Senshi Admin Media Director
Title : AKA Haine~ the official hardcore UsaxMamo fan Posts : 3584 Join date : 2012-09-24 Age : 36 Location : The Echanted forest looking for my unicorn pet
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 2nd April 2016, 7:20 pm | |
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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 4th April 2016, 11:12 am | |
| Okay! So I need to give everyone access to the things, in order to do that I need to be able to find you on facebook and/or tumblr to give you access. I'll be posting the twitter account information soon as I don't think you can do group account thing like you can with fbook and tumblr. I planned on sending out a PM but I want to make sure there isn't anyone else interested in this before doing that. Sooo..yeah! All other staff please post if you are interested! |
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Addelyn Lotus Crystal
Title : GC's Official Nephrite Posts : 8024 Join date : 2012-08-04 Age : 34 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 4th April 2016, 11:31 am | |
| You have my facebook if you want to add me there as backup. My tumblr is misswildfire |
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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 5th April 2016, 10:24 am | |
| For facebook:
Sailor Mars Sailor Mercury Henshinyo Addelyn Haine Batgirl Sailor Neptune (who had access previously for RP stuff)
ALl now have access.
Turns out for tumblr I need email addresses. Please either PM or Skype me them!
Haine is currently the only one with access to twitter since I cannot do multiple people to access one account. Until we see how smoothly everything runs, I will leave it that way for now since its one account being logged in to by many. I'd rather avoid confusion and all that.
Thanks everyone! |
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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 5th April 2016, 5:07 pm | |
| Addy and Henshinyo now both have tumblr access. So that should cover everyone. If there's anyone else that is interested in joining the group please post here and let us know!
Also we need a totally cool group team name. Ideas? xD |
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Sailor Venus Inner Senshi Admin Media Director
Title : AKA Haine~ the official hardcore UsaxMamo fan Posts : 3584 Join date : 2012-09-24 Age : 36 Location : The Echanted forest looking for my unicorn pet
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 5th April 2016, 7:12 pm | |
| How about "noticed by senpai"? xD
or... "first post!"
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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 10th April 2016, 11:56 am | |
| This pertains mostly to tumblr, but it was suggested that we try to get all staff to reblog posts from our tumblr so we can try to spread word more.
I would suggest same for facebook but i dunno how well that works depending on the friends/family you have. If i did it, it would be ignored or attract trolls (it has in the past with livestream shares) but maybe if you are in groups or waht not on facebook you think would be a good place to share that'd be great!
Same can go for twitter, if you have the follower base (i sure don't but i retweet anyway whenever i remeber to check). |
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Addelyn Lotus Crystal
Title : GC's Official Nephrite Posts : 8024 Join date : 2012-08-04 Age : 34 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 10th April 2016, 12:00 pm | |
| I've already been reblogging the recent ads and stuff. I was thinking about that earlier today while I was on tumblr and loading more things up onto the tumblr Queue. |
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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 10th April 2016, 12:02 pm | |
| Thanks! This was just a general announcement for everyone so glad you are already doing so. :3 |
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yunbuns Lotus Crystal
Title : Queen of da Norf. Posts : 3068 Join date : 2014-02-26 Age : 30 Location : Who knows.
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 10th April 2016, 12:27 pm | |
| You can also feel free to go and repost some old ads. Mercury shouldn't need to make a new ad unless it's for a new program, event, etc. Below are just some examples:
https://i.imgur.com/vrXMuVl.png https://imgur.com/qvpxoQK https://imgur.com/4qm9fHL |
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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 10th April 2016, 12:28 pm | |
| Oh yes that reminds me. Feel free to also reblog old ads or old things that are still relevant to today (like the 30 day challenges). Whenever I would have time I would go through the archives and find random things to reblog. |
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Neo Queen Serenity Founder
Title : Lady of the Forums Posts : 8297 Join date : 2011-06-14 Age : 33 Location : Northern California
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 10th April 2016, 8:47 pm | |
| Thank you guys for taking this on, I would like to request a little less general Sailor Moon things in the Gc tumblr as I really had to dig for things, I understand it's from a lack of content + wanting to keep it active, but it's main purpose is to draw site attention.
May I perhaps suggest we reblog our members created posts/edits and do a "spotlight" thing on the post saying hey! Take a look at our members (name) posts! Or something like that.
The main goal is advertising, you wouldn't see dunkin doughnuts reblogging every doughnut picture with no text to draw you to their shops.
I'm 100% OK with reusing, even from way back when if you wanted to use new words. I'll also try and help create some general ads |
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Sailor Venus Inner Senshi Admin Media Director
Title : AKA Haine~ the official hardcore UsaxMamo fan Posts : 3584 Join date : 2012-09-24 Age : 36 Location : The Echanted forest looking for my unicorn pet
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 10th April 2016, 8:58 pm | |
| ^ I've been doing something similar with twitter and it got some reblogs and likes, I think my idea of advertise random threads from the forum is working =D!
Also, for twitter I found out the exact size to advertise stuffs, that way the whole text can be seen, same with facebook, I could so some random graphics based on old ones from tumblr, that way I can re-use them at any time =) |
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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 6:05 pm | |
| I think in the case of Tumblr, it might help to reblog some general SM things and SM Community highlights with the mix of site ads. HOnestly before when we had an Artemis running hte tumblr and it was strictly site ads, we rarely got reblogs or likes unless a bigger SM blog reblogged us (looking at your blog Queen or Bubble's blog). By sharing the community and eventually adding in some original content of our own on top of the site ads, we'll draw in more people that want to follow the tumblr and thus by following us will see our site ads. Tumblr is generally all about "I'm following this blog because it posts things i like to see" and if we are 100% site ads, well...people just aren't going to be as interested. At least thats just my experience from seeing the notifications on my phone now versus from before.
But maybe thats just me.
Tl;dr We need a good balance and are figuring things out as we go. We had some hiccups getting Henshin added to the GC tumblr but now she's on board to help Addy. |
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Sailor Uranus Outer Senshi Admin Roleplay Director
Title : Oh, you mean you DON'T have an Elephabulous? Shame. Posts : 13368 Join date : 2011-09-15 Age : 35 Location : NE Texas
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 6:16 pm | |
| Maybe see if members would be okay with having art/recolors/fic/etc. that they've made an posted on here reblogged/reposted on the gc tumblr? because it is the original content that people like and could be found in tags and reblogged back to the gc source, but it would still be highlighting things to find on the GC and ways to get involved in the gc - so it could be like {img} Artwork by _______, posted in her Gallery found {link} here, or share your own Sailor Moon Artwork in our Artist Section of the Galaxy Cauldron Forums! or {snippet of one-shot} Continue reading ________'s "Fic Title" {link} here, or share your own Sailor Moon Fanfiction in the Writer's Section of the Galaxy Cauldron Forums! kinda like the featured artwork/fanfic of the newsletter used to be? And with their username, you could also link to their tumblr or something if the user requested it. |
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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 6:29 pm | |
| Yes, I think that was something we wanted to try to get in the works. Along with the public request thread. |
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Sailor Venus Inner Senshi Admin Media Director
Title : AKA Haine~ the official hardcore UsaxMamo fan Posts : 3584 Join date : 2012-09-24 Age : 36 Location : The Echanted forest looking for my unicorn pet
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 7:05 pm | |
| I have an idea to boost Facebook, not sure how everyone will feel about this because I noticed our Facebook is more to communicate forum stuffs, but I was thinking of doing games, like bingo. |
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Addelyn Lotus Crystal
Title : GC's Official Nephrite Posts : 8024 Join date : 2012-08-04 Age : 34 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 7:12 pm | |
| - Small Lady wrote:
- I think in the case of Tumblr, it might help to reblog some general SM things and SM Community highlights with the mix of site ads. HOnestly before when we had an Artemis running hte tumblr and it was strictly site ads, we rarely got reblogs or likes unless a bigger SM blog reblogged us (looking at your blog Queen or Bubble's blog). By sharing the community and eventually adding in some original content of our own on top of the site ads, we'll draw in more people that want to follow the tumblr and thus by following us will see our site ads. Tumblr is generally all about "I'm following this blog because it posts things i like to see" and if we are 100% site ads, well...people just aren't going to be as interested. At least thats just my experience from seeing the notifications on my phone now versus from before.
But maybe thats just me.
Tl;dr We need a good balance and are figuring things out as we go. We had some hiccups getting Henshin added to the GC tumblr but now she's on board to help Addy. I get updates about the reblogged and likes we get to my phone. Since I started doing some general stuff we've gotten so much attention. I check it a few times a day and I'm clearing at least 30 notification off my phone every time. If people follow us for sm stuff and original sm content like I know henshinyo wants to do, our ads we be scene. People won't come check us out unless we become a big well known blog. |
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Neo Queen Serenity Founder
Title : Lady of the Forums Posts : 8297 Join date : 2011-06-14 Age : 33 Location : Northern California
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 8:03 pm | |
| I'm OK with balance, but it was highly skewed and we do have our members to draw on and if we added highlights / real content to reblogs I'm OK with that, but I'd still like it to revolve around it's purpose of information, not just the goal of being big. Like Haine said for Twitter, specific threads from the forums being pointed out seemed help generate talk, I'm sure we can work that in some ways. |
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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 8:10 pm | |
| It is something we are working on. We are in process of waiting on some generic ads Addy and Henshin can use to promote threads rather than get a new ad each time and a few other things. Plus finding some older works too. Its a work in progress my Queen. :3 |
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Neo Queen Serenity Founder
Title : Lady of the Forums Posts : 8297 Join date : 2011-06-14 Age : 33 Location : Northern California
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 8:17 pm | |
| I'm aware! But I figured if I didn't say anything until later and then said something that would be worse :p
I'll try and make about 20 ads in the next week for threads around the site. Just small things to add to text. |
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Brit-chan Senior Member Small Lady Emeritus
Title : Queen of the Cat Kingdom Posts : 23236 Join date : 2011-06-23 Age : 36 Location : Lafayette, LA
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 8:18 pm | |
| That would be great! We are trying to not overload bubbles as well. xD |
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Sailor Venus Inner Senshi Admin Media Director
Title : AKA Haine~ the official hardcore UsaxMamo fan Posts : 3584 Join date : 2012-09-24 Age : 36 Location : The Echanted forest looking for my unicorn pet
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 8:43 pm | |
| I could work on some ads for twitter =) I'll inspire on tumblr ones. |
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Addelyn Lotus Crystal
Title : GC's Official Nephrite Posts : 8024 Join date : 2012-08-04 Age : 34 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 8:59 pm | |
| - Small Lady wrote:
- That would be great! We are trying to not overload bubbles as well. xD
I want to go the general ad route because I don't want to overload Bubbles as well. Tsuki made some very pretty templates for the RP and Rper of the month so all she has to do is swap out the text and voila! |
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Neo Queen Serenity Founder
Title : Lady of the Forums Posts : 8297 Join date : 2011-06-14 Age : 33 Location : Northern California
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 10:37 pm | |
| 5 Ads placed in the drafts on tumblr for large sections of the forums. They can be reused since the sections of the site don't change. All of them are gifs. |
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Neo Queen Serenity Founder
Title : Lady of the Forums Posts : 8297 Join date : 2011-06-14 Age : 33 Location : Northern California
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 11:16 pm | |
| Also, just in case it hasn't been done, I think there needs to be an Ad archive, so that when things change hands it's not a whole revamping but rather have it be easy to have who ever is in charge take over |
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Sailor Neptune Outer Senshi Admin RP Graphics & Canon Admin
Title : Drinker of Roleplayers' Tears ~ The Internationaliest™ Posts : 9577 Join date : 2013-07-25 Age : 36 Location : Canada
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 11th April 2016, 11:53 pm | |
| The second post of my request thread is the archive, unless you meant something else. |
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Neo Queen Serenity Founder
Title : Lady of the Forums Posts : 8297 Join date : 2011-06-14 Age : 33 Location : Northern California
| Subject: Re: Social Network Team Planning 12th April 2016, 1:33 am | |
| No that will work, also will need to add twitter and facebook to that since Haine is possibly making some. I'll add mine when I'm done with all of them. |
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