From kde-promo Sat May 13 04:44:36 2006 From: "Amir Michail" Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 04:44:36 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: [kde-promo] Promoting KDE using Target Your News Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=114749550721162 Hi, I've written a paper on Target Your News: "Shattering the Self-Promotion Taboo" http://targetyournews.com/TargetYourNews.pdf The corresponding service is fully functional and free: http://targetyournews.com It's sort of like reddit, but the submitter is responsible for targeting his/her link to people who will probably like it. To see how a particular link is targeted, click "targeting". For example, here is the targeting for KolourPaint: http://targetyournews.com/?cmd=targeting&urlid=269984 Note how targeting URLs are used to suggest KolourPaint to people. For example, KolourPaint is targeted to people who liked GIMP. People who are targeted can click "more like this" or "fewer like this" to build their interest profile. This in turn determines your submission score. Careful targeting is important because your submission score determines your submission's rank among personalized recommendations for targeted people. Now, perhaps you are involved with KolourPaint in some way or like it a lot, so you would like to promote it as well. Moreover, you might believe that you can do a better job targeting it so more interested people will see it. In that case, click on "evolve" to change its targeting, title, and/or tags. Note that all instances of the link will remain in the system, so in fact, many people could try to promote this program in different ways. Click "family" to see all instances of the link. To receive personalized recommendations, take a look at the links under "My Targeted Links". If you would like to receive more personalized recommendations, give your preferences for some of the links under "My Targeting Links". I would be quite willing to enter many KDE apps into the system, though perhaps others could target them by evolving my submissions. Amir _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.