Now that the site is in public beta, what are the best methods of promotion?
Here are forms I've already seen or posted myself:
- Reddit (Note there are two Raspberry Pi subreddits)
- HackerNews (Whoops Alex!)
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It has been submitted since the public beta, but didn't get much attention. We need a really good question/answer which that crowd would like for it to work there!– Alex ChamberlainCommented Jun 25, 2012 at 14:02
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Pretty much copied from http://meta.libraries.stackexchange.com/a/109
Related questions on other new sites: Chemistry, Libraries, Chess , WindowsPhone (these are some of our newer sites, you can probably find the site-promotion questions on the older ones if you want. Or use this filter I just created)
Few things you can do (some stuff taken from my post here):
- Create a community promotion ad and post on a graduated site. Maybe on SO and/or SU. Unix is another site that occurred to me--seeing that you guys have a site overlap. Mathematica.SE and chem.SE have done so on Physics.
- Create an A4(or whatever) poster for your users to print out and stick somewhere. We did that on chem
- Write an awesome blog post, like this one by a TW mod
- Encourage colleagues/classmates/friends(who use/program RPi) to join. Tell them how awesome we are!
- Try to get more experts engaged. Remember, the more experts you have, the better the site is (we don't want to degrade into Yahoo! Answers)
- Retweet the upvoted questions posted by @StackRaspi. This spreads the word about the site pretty easily.
And don't forget to mention the site in your Facebook feed - especially when posting pictures of cool RPi hacks.
