Stage 1 Creating the framework
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An easy way to create content for all those who wish to contribute. It’s a framework for building your community.
- Journal Index’s
- Book reviews
- Ability to subscribe to the site and get an email whenever a new post is published.
- Search facility – by having indexes online you can search for a term and find out what issue it appears in.
- Sidebar widget to display a rolling slide show of images from the earthsong FlickR archive
- eNotes is now available by email when you subscribe to the site
- A list of other web resources
- Visitor analysis or web site metrics. Who is visiting the earsong website.
Stage 2 Building the web presence
You have to strive to make the site relevant.
Organic search engine optimization is best done by producing good original content.
How can I contribute? Some Ideas……
- Everyone’s talent can be leveraged for use with the site.
- If you have a photography talent, upload your photo’s to the FlickR archive.
- When you have an event, take photographs and upload them to FlickR archive.
- If someone has an interest in meditation they could manage the section devoted to it.
- If you would like to write on occasional or regular post, register on the site.
- Twitter. If someone has an interest in this technology they could manage Twitter management.
- Facebook\Myspace management
- Create podcasts and allow them to be downloaded from the site. Record key note events
- Scope for a practical tips section
- Link to personal blogs
- Those interested in bushwalking could have a regular destination rant
- YouTube. You could create an Earthsong channel on YouTube and do interviews with persons of interest
- Write an Earthsong entry on wikipedia
- Event management. There is a plugin available that allows people to self register for an event
- News feeds from other sites could be incorporated in to sidebars
- Create a “Who are we” page on the site with small photographs and short Bio’s
- List the membership of commitee’s and council
- Develop an area for school students so that when a program runs at a school, students will come back to the site.
- Offer targeted advertising in the sidebars
- Add a PayPal donate button. 2 clicks and people can donate as little as a $1
- Offer online payment for journal subscription
- Develop web partnerships with like minded sites. Add links to each other.
- Add a forum component to the site for frank and open discussion on set topics
- Write an article for http://www.ezinearticles.com/ ….they get great google rankings
- Develop 1 ebook per year and give it away on your site..
- Publish details with Zoominfo
- Add a media room on the site
- Upload your powerpoint presentations to slideshare
- Do book reviews on Amazon.com and plaster earthsong all over it.
- Do surveys on your website and publish the results.
- Think about video streaming live events to the web via ustream
