Content managing for FB and G+ - #4 chat cast – Conversation in Maid Café (メイド喫茶)

JNat

Feb 16, 2013 18:31

@MadaraUchiha FB/G+ contents? or do you have something else in mind?

Madara Uchiha

@JNat Alright, begin

Mysticial

Somebody ask the meta question about meta tags. I'll answer with a summary.

JNat

@MadaraUchiha we should do one of these at each time, so that our attention is more focused

but basically, we need to improve contents in our Facebook and Google+ pages

both to get more followers and more interested passer-bys

Madara Uchiha

OK, any ideas?

Eric

First, I think we need more activity in the G+ account. Last message was 8 days ago.

JNat

Feb 16, 2013 18:35

@Eric so far, the pages have not had any content updates, other than the pokemon question

Eric

Correct.

Logan M

I just made it on. Sorry for being late.

JNat

@MadaraUchiha firstly, anyone here that has facebook/goole+ should follow us there

Madara Uchiha

I think we should nominate a manager for the FB and G+ pages.

JNat

@MadaraUchiha that's a good idea

Madara Uchiha

Feb 16, 2013 18:36

Someone with a bit more free time than us (me?), who's well versed in a lot of anime, and is capable of posting interesting stuff

JNat

@MadaraUchiha also someone that can easily use these sites (I'm new in both)

Manishearth

@Mysticial No, they ask the comm team for burnination. Or they put up a meta post and crowdsource the power of meta to manually burninate

Mysticial

@Manishearth ah that's good to know

Eric

I have free time, I'm just limited to only a few anime in experience. But I'm very active on G+ (I pretty much spend 1-2 hours a day on there, browsing interesting things).

Manishearth

@MadaraUchiha a note: if you're running an FB/G+ page, be sure to make it visibly unofficial

Madara Uchiha

Feb 16, 2013 18:38

@Manishearth We know, we've been there already :)

Manishearth

ah good

JNat

@MadaraUchiha maybe we should make a meta post asking for nominations on this, and then discuss it on our next meeting

Dimitri mx

How do you spread on social media right now ? just posting messages look at this question know the answer come here ?

Madara Uchiha

Google+ Page .:. Facebook Page

@Dimitrimx We currently don't have a very developed social spread.

Manishearth

@MadaraUchiha An idea: why don't you guys start a community project? Many sites are doing it (for example, Raspberry Pi has some of its community members collaborating and writing something-or-the-other). You guys have a rather active chat, utilize that :) For example, collaborate and make some anime. Or something :)

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Dimitri mx

Feb 16, 2013 18:41

Twitter could be a good potentional. Loads of people ask questions about anime as a tweet. Maybe refer people to a page that answers the question they asked ?

JNat

@Dimitrimx we cannot manage our twitter account

right @MadaraUchiha?

Madara Uchiha

@JNat We can start an unofficial one though

Dimitri mx

gyazo.com/027161c7de3375a2c7169813c35784e5

Manishearth

@JNat you can actually, later on. Gaming does it. You need to request it and show that you have enough members dedicated to keeping it alive.

JNat

@MadaraUchiha and have it linked to the official one, ok

Dimitri mx

Feb 16, 2013 18:42

one of the many sample's

Manishearth

@MadaraUchiha unofficial-all-the-things.gif

Madara Uchiha

@Manishearth That idea could work, but making an anime or even a manga requires skills not many of us have.

Manishearth

@MadaraUchiha true

that particular one was just an idea

Eric

One community we haven't tapped is deviantArt. But I don't even know how we'd tackle that.

Manishearth

scanlations is another one (dunno how legal that is)

Madara Uchiha

Feb 16, 2013 18:43

I have it noted, however. We'll discuss it later (or in the next chat cast)

@Eric What do we have in common with them?

Mysticial

Ping me when we get onto the topic of copyright.

Eric

@MadaraUchiha Little in terms of content, but obviously a lot of anime fanatics will hang out there.

JNat

@Mysticial ok

Mysticial

I'm currently typing up the meta tag SEO summary. So I won't be looking here.

Manishearth

@Eric Be ...careful when "tackling" communities.. You may end up lowering the quality of your site in favor of quantity. Reddit can be...dangerous at times

But a small nudge never hurt

Eric

Feb 16, 2013 18:47

@Manishearth Agreed. But not all communities are created equal, after all. :)

JNat

shouldn't we first focus on the pages we already have first?

Madara Uchiha

Yes, we should

Manishearth

@JNat yep

Eric

@JNat Yes. It was probably a little off-topic of me.

Madara Uchiha

OK

Krazer

Feb 16, 2013 18:48

@MadaraUchiha AnnaLear recommended we post a meta before they actually take action so I made one outlining most of what we discussed.

JNat

ok, so about the managers, how do we choose/elect them?

Madara Uchiha

@Krazer OK

@JNat I say a featured meta-post

Much like the pro-temp nominations

JNat

@MadaraUchiha I agree

Dimitri mx

I'd agree on that

Eric

Agreed also.

JNat

Feb 16, 2013 18:50

and then we choose and debate it next session?

Krazer

Yes

JNat

or do we simply let the voting talk?

Mysticial

@Manishearth If you think Reddit may be scary, you'd love to know that we have 4chan as a possibility too. :P

Krazer

We should at least debate how we plan to manage theses sites

Eric

A discussion would not hurt, so I'd have no problem doing that in addition to considering the vote count of each nomination.

Madara Uchiha

Feb 16, 2013 18:51

Yes

Our model should be this, interesting questions should be posted here and there

But much more importantly is the stuff that'll catch the eye of people

Interesting stuff, anime/manga news, releases, funny stuff

Something people would want to follow.

Krazer

@MadaraUchiha like eating Pokemon xD

JNat

@MadaraUchiha yes, that is more important

Eric

@MadaraUchiha Emphasis on "funny stuff". This is the internet, after all.

Madara Uchiha

Exactly like eating Pokemon.

Manishearth

@Mysticial runs away

Dimitri mx

Feb 16, 2013 18:53

Funny/shocking stuff attracts the most people.

Krazer

@Dimitrimx but not too shocking

Dimitri mx

@Krazer has to stay Q/A not a horror show :)

Madara Uchiha

Everything in measure. The Stack Exchange policy is that users should be 13+

Logan M

@Eric The problem is that we have maybe a dozen posts that are funny. We'd run out quickly if we only post those.

Manishearth

@Dimitrimx too shocking and it attracts even more people, except they don't know that they're being attracted (think goatse)

Dimitri mx

Feb 16, 2013 18:55

@MadaraUchiha 13+ for stack but anime/manga attracts people under that age aswel.

Eric

@LoganM That's right. Not only those, of course, but the Pokemon question caught quite a few eyes.

Krazer

@LoganM currently we need to hook as many as we can so ppl at least know we are out there

Eric

And there will be more funny questions. I still see funny questions come up on SO now and then. (Uncatchable ChuckNorrisException was my favorite, I think.)

Logan M

@Dimitrimx If they lie about their age to use the site, that isn't our problem. But anyway, FB and G+ are both 13+ too IIRC.

Madara Uchiha

We cannot force people to join us.

But we need to make people aware of our existance

Mysticial

Feb 16, 2013 18:58

Reddit and 4chan is a great place to make people are aware of our existence. :P

Eric

@MadaraUchiha Not just that, though. We don't want to appear as a community of stiffs that don't have any humor or fun at all. People wouldn't want to join that.

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Dimitri mx

maybe poke ourselfs into a Yahoo question ?

Madara Uchiha

@Mysticial Indeed, but we need to be careful with who do we attract.

Mysticial

@MadaraUchiha Hence the ":P".

Uh... I didn't realize Krazer already made the meta post.

Can someone merge mine into it?

Or the other way, doesn't matter.

Madara Uchiha

@Mysticial Don't worry about it.

Eric

Feb 16, 2013 19:00

I think Krazer's question could be made an "answer" to your post.

Logan M

@Dimitrimx If you can find open Yahoo questions about anime, that's a good way to do it. They'll usually generate a few clicks through to the source. It's better if we already have the answer here, but if not, we can use that as a way to generate more seeding questions as well.

Dimitri mx

@LoganM They sometimes have open posts like "Were can i find good answers to anime related questions". Should keep an eye out for those.

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Madara Uchiha

@Dimitrimx Those are gold

They appear first on Google, and a link back to us there is priceless

Dimitri mx

@MadaraUchiha They appear pretty often, if we can get some people to watch out on those site's for those kinda questions it could be a gold mine.

Eric

Related: answers.yahoo.com/dir/…

Madara Uchiha

Feb 16, 2013 19:04

There's also wiki.answers.com

But I think Yahoo will benefit us more

OK so let's wrap it up

JNat

@MadaraUchiha a meta post for nominations of FB and G+ pages will be made

Madara Uchiha

We have agreed that we should nominate managers for our unofficial pages on Facebook and Google+, a meta post will be issued.

We also need to keep an eye out for Yahoo questions which can be linked back to us.

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