Re: Friends of GNOME Badges

[Claus Schwarm <clschwarm googlemail com>]

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 08:43 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Claus Schwarm <clschwarm googlemail com> wrote:
> >
> > is hardly very convincing copy. Maybe, our problem is the conversion
> > rate of this page?
> 
> I agree we could make it more appealing - tell people why, ask for
> their help, etc.
> 

If we could track some of our promoters somehow, we could contact them
and ask for a testimonial -- why they help us, why they think this is
important, and why others should join in.

We could then display their statements together with their Gravatar
images and a link to their blog or homepage in a sidebar to that page.


> I've also thought it would be really fun if we could give people some
> type of affiliate code and track how many people they got to sign up.
> I'm not sure exactly how to do that easily though.
> 

Me too but that's probably to much trouble for the promoters.

> > However, here are some other means to make the badge ad more effective:
> >
> > * Enlarge it (eg. like the friends ruler).
> > * Switch to a more notable color.
> > * Add images of real people to it.
> > * Display it more often.
> 
> We could make a badge to promote promoting ...
> 
> In general though we haven't displayed the badge on any of GNOME's sites.
> 

The GNOME Journal has it, but it's placed in the footer.

I've seen the ruler has nearly reached its goal. Maybe we could replace
it by a "We're-looking-for-50-bloggers-to-help-us-promote-FoG" ruler?

> > Next, while I have no overview on GNOME's other means, we could mention
> > the 'Promote FoG' program regularly:
> >
> > * in GNOME's newsletter,
> > * in GNOME's twitter feed, and
> > * in GNOME's facebook feed.
> 
> I can put it on twitter and facebook.

Cool! :-)

> >
> > We could also do an Google adwords campaign for the Promote FoG thing,
> > provided we could find some good keywords that potential bloggers may
> > use to find Not-for-profit stuff to support.
> 
> This is a good idea. Maybe just the general GNOME keywords ...
> 

I see if I can come up with something.


Regards,
Claus