[Clipart] How to attract more users to participate

[Cameron Gregory]

When the upload is working, I was thinking we could run a competition for the best
mashup using imagebot from OCAL.

Perhaps an ipad2? as first prize? I'm open to suggestions...

Cameron
http://imagebot.com/

On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:

> Or implement them :) actually, the donate buttons on there are
> starting to work now that I dropped donate button on them
> 
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Jakub Jankiewicz <jcubic at onet.pl> wrote:
>> We need also to fix pages:
>> /showcase - 13 491 vistors this moth
>> /request - 5 136 vistors
>> 
>> /browse is the same as main page. It should be either remove or change
>> in way that will allow user to actualy browse all clipart, like in
>> categories with breadcrumbs. 75 416 users click on this page (the link
>> is clipart).
>> 
>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:40:49 +0100
>> Jakub Jankiewicz <jcubic at onet.pl> wrote:
>> 
>>> We can create newsletter to attract more users, we can send them best
>>> clipart a month, and news about improvements we have. Improvements
>>> will maybe convince them to participate.
>>> 
>>> We need to show them that remixing is simple, using imagebot and we
>>> need to have this mashups so users will be able to import to imagebot
>>> few clipart and create new one. We need this Upload API.
>>> 
>>> We could put video on main page, but for this we will need to redesign
>>> the layout. We should have video like this one
>>> http://vimeo.com/20813632
>>> 
>>> Or maybe we can put one of talk from LGM - remixed to be shorter.
>>> 
>>> We need better layout that will show video, best clipart, join button,
>>> donate button, short message that sharing is simple an easy and
>>> everybody can do this, they don't need to an artist to do so. (3
>>> sentences)
>>> 
>>> And also if we put video on page we can create video sitemap and
>>> thumbnail will show up next to search result.
>>> 
>>> Jon: How many donations we have so far?
>>> 
>>> What do we need for our visitors to do? There are lots of users that
>>> came only once (based on google analytics from this month, maybe they
>>> come back later).
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jakub Jankiewicz
>>> twitter: @jcubic
>>> www: http://jcubic.pl
>> 
>> --
>> Jakub Jankiewicz
>> twitter: @jcubic
>> www: http://jcubic.pl
> 
> 
> 
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