Re: Community blogging competition

Isn't this something like planet.kde.org with a bit of added motivation?

Jussi.
On 8 Jun 2011 02:06, "Lukas" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One thing KDE misses is large amount of blogs/tutorials/how-to's written
for
> users ranging from newbies to intermediate (hope there is no need
explaining
> why such informal resources are necessary for any virtual community).
>
> And we can do something about it with official community blogging
> competition as a possible solution. From what i observed, top motivators
for
> many people could be:
>
> *Personal support* - its a matter of ego, if you can feel people are happy
> with what you are doing, it gets quite motivating :). It our, as KDE
> community and promo, job to make sure blogger will get supported as they
> deserve.
>
> *Technical/SEO supprot* - If you have new blog, its going to take a lot of
> time and wasted posts (in the beginning, none can find it - none will read
> it) until it will get well ranked in google. Its demotivating for the
author
> and a big loss or KDE community. Official support with back links from *.
> kde.org both, helps KDE users find new content as well back links from *.
> kde.org gives credibility for site -> higher ranking -> more traffic ->
more
> people reading about KDE.
>
> *Prizes support* - What kind of competition could be without prizes? :) A
> weekly t-shrt, monthly usb-key, it doesn’t matter, as long as it motivates
> people to blog about KDE.
>
> Good examples of supporting projects in design community could be
> http://sixrevisions.com/<
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/git-tutorials-beginners/>or
> Smashing
> Network <http://network.smashingmagazine.com/>. Why shouldn't we have
> network.kde.org ? :)
>
> Cheers
> Lukas

 
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