Epic Recs - Looking for suggestions

Looking for suggestions

Jul. 26th, 2007 at 4:46 PM

jane-elliot.livejournal.com

Hey folks,

I've been thinking about where this community is heading -- after all, there are only a limited number of epic stories out there, and they can't all be winners. Ideally, I'd like us to continue to focus on longer stories, but I'm also hoping that the Reader's Recs portion of the community will get more significant, opening the community up to more fandoms and a greater variety of reccers (and, eventually, to adding more full-time reccers other than myself). For that to work, however, we need to have more readers (aka potential reccers), because the current response to reader's recs is pretty low.

Which leads to the question: how does one pimp a community? I'm not sure how most of ya'll found Epic Recs (though I'd be very interested to learn, if you're interested in sharing), but membership seems to have leveled off. As we have quite a few recs available in a number of fandoms, now seems to be an ideal time for a membership push. To that end, I'm open to any and all suggestions on how to get the word out on Epic Recs. If you've got any ideas, now is the time to put them out there:)

Thanks!
Jane

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joannindiw.livejournal.com wrote:

Jul. 27th, 2007 02:25 am (UTC)

got here via your LJ.

recs: for different fandoms, notify whatever newsletter about the rec being done on your community... I know the spn newsletter has a section where recs are listed....

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jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:

Jul. 27th, 2007 02:30 am (UTC)

Yes, I do recognize your handle:)

As for the newsletters, can anyone post to them, or would my attempting to do so gett someone (or, you know, an entire fandom) pissed off at me? Good suggestion, though. As long as it's kosher with everyone, I'd be happy to give it a try.

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joannindiw.livejournal.com wrote:

Jul. 27th, 2007 02:45 am (UTC)

Ah! Don't post to the newsletter comm itself - there are mods; I think it's more on the lines that you give 'em the link to the rec, and then they funnel it into the post whenever the next round-up is. I think trying to post TO the newsletter comm would get people ticked.

but - for Due South... There's LJ community "ds_noticeboard" - that you probably could post to - but, I don't see alot of posts about specific rec posts (I hope that made sense). I'm pretty sure you could promote your comm there.

I know there is a newsletter for SGA; not sure about other fandoms... (same thing; submit to mods or whatever the comm info says in the beginning and it'll (probably) get filtered into the comm).

... Not sure what else to tell you, actually. I tend to go to fic-posting comms more than anything.

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jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:

Jul. 27th, 2007 09:09 pm (UTC)

Okay, so I just hit up ds_noticeboard (seemed like a good time, since we just wrapped up Due South week). I'm thinking I'll stick to one noticeboard comm a week -- that way I can try and come up with a specific gimmick that might not get me nagged at by the moderators:)

Thanks again for the suggestion!

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joannindiw.livejournal.com wrote:

Jul. 28th, 2007 03:12 am (UTC)

For the SPN noticeboard, which is the only one I actually look at, I think you can actually send a message every time there's a post on your comm about a SPN rec (because they have a rec section - some of those recs are just one LJ post with one rec). It might be same in the other noticeboards - check the posts and the comm info?

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intheyear2004.livejournal.com wrote:

Jul. 27th, 2007 12:26 pm (UTC)

I don't really remember how I found your comm, but I suppose it was either via DS or via TS...? I think there are newsletters for each fandom and you can let the editor/s know about this comm and the recs being done. Also there is TS news and also DS news (I think) where you could post a link to this comm yourself. And then there is an LJ called 'pimp my comm' or something which is extra for announcing new communities, but you would have to search this in the interests because I don't remember what it is called exactly. Hope that helps.

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jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:

Jul. 27th, 2007 02:42 pm (UTC)

Hee! That sounds a lot like me -- storyfinder comms are a must for me, because my long term memory seems to last approximately ten minutes when it comes to LJ:)

Thanks for the tip on newsletter communities. I think I'm going to do some netsufing this weekend and see where I can get away with pimping:)

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hermitsoul wrote:

Jul. 28th, 2007 05:40 am (UTC)

I stumbled across this comm doing a LJ seek for a newsletter. I'll put this on my list of "to be watched communities" so I can add the recs (and any pertinent announcements) to

ts_newsletter (The Sentinel) or

sn_updates (Sports Night). Also, joining up myself because I have a mad love for epic stories!

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jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:

Jul. 28th, 2007 05:36 pm (UTC)

Sweet! Does that mean I won't need to submit anything to those two newsletters? (If so, great, as that takes care of all but two of my newsletter assignments:)

Glad to have you -- enjoy the recs!

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hermitsoul wrote:

Jul. 29th, 2007 05:07 am (UTC)

Just let me know if you want anything special announced for a coming week - I post the TS newsletter on Fridays and the SN one on Sundays. Otherwise I'll keep an eye on the recs/announcements each week and make sure they're included!

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jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:

Jul. 29th, 2007 06:44 pm (UTC)

Thank you! (I'm thinking of having a Sentinel Week sometime in August. I'll let you know if that works out.)

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