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Strix - Sep 27, 2012 12:45:17 am PDT #1000 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

ita ! I don't have much concrete info on this topic, but I totally feel your pain: I have SO MUCH I need to change on my website and social media...and I don't have the time! I'm working on jobs. But I HAVE to do it. So, yeah. I'm with you.

But In terms of popularity, if I had to put three buttons, which three are the ones--FB? Twitter? And then what?

For your tumblr (it's got an array of interests, some geeky, right. Some Provocateuse? Use Twitter, and keep on that shit. Once a day, send a couple of pics out. Easy. Some little blurb, a pic (use owl.ly to shorten URLs-I think that's how it's spelled? Anyone know for sure?

Use HootSuite and you can send the same message to Twitter, FaceBook and, well LinkedIn, but no on THAT one! Maybe a couple more choices I can't recall. Maybe Instagram, but I am new to that, so no advice from me there; I'm still figuring it out and analyzing if I like it.

I don't know what tweaks you can do to your tumblr theme settings, but I'd also add a Pintrest button, and have a Pintrest page. Pintrest can be crackadelic time suckage, so I warn you, but it's hot right now, and there's several categories that fit the different stuff in your tumblr very well. And then you can also get shit from other's people Pintrests of just the groups for your tumblr!

(I am strangely proud I know this. I just had little mental IAmAGirlGeekGasm. Although my geekiness in some areas has some big holes, but c'est la vie; I know a fuckton of esoteric crap from a lot of random subjects. It balances out.)


Jesse - Sep 27, 2012 2:53:37 am PDT #1001 of 1416
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I want to Tumblr stuff, and that button rarely appears, and if it does, it never generates an actual post I'd submit (links to the image that caught my eye? What's the point? That doesn't make my Tumblr look cool!).

Yeah, even with The Mary Sue, which I think does a pretty good job making their posts tumblable, the picture ends up in the text box so you have to click on it in your dash.

In terms of popularity, if I had to put three buttons, which three are the ones--FB? Twitter? And then what?

Pinterest, for sure -- it's all photos.


Strix - Sep 27, 2012 3:17:39 am PDT #1002 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

(I cannot spell Pinterest right, to my everlovin' shame. It's a weird neural block.)


Stephanie - Sep 27, 2012 3:25:29 am PDT #1003 of 1416
Trust my rage

Yes, I was totally going to say Pinterest.


beekaytee - Sep 27, 2012 4:43:13 am PDT #1004 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant

I haven't spent much time there, due to the time suckage issue Strix cited, but Pinterest seems the way to go. Had I not just migrated to a new computer, I'd link you to an article I read about how 5 major brands are succeeding using Pinterest. Google the idea and I'm certain that will come up.

As for adding the buttons to the 10 photo page...might it be cleaner...and much less work...to add a blurb on each page that says "Click on your favorite pics to share with your fellow Provocateurs" and then have the share buttons on the individual pages?

I have no idea why I think that would be technically easier, but it would save you all that div hashing...which sounds like torture to me.


§ ita § - Sep 27, 2012 5:02:13 am PDT #1005 of 1416
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

People are already pinning many of my sites: [link] actually. I noticed that a few months ago and didn't know what to do with the information. I'm having a hard time keeping up with tumblring (but I am getting a decent number of notes, so it's a decent brand expansion--I'm trying to run the reports to see how much traffic tumblr gets me, but it's hard to interpret--chicken gizzards might be more straightforward). If there isn't a tool that can consolidate tweeting/Pinning/whatever else, I don't know if I can keep up with it.

I am fairly sure I have a provocateuse twitter account, but I might be using it for something else. Whatever else, it's not for much, and I can clean it out.

Shit.

But I am wasting traffic here. At the very least, I can add buttons that can add another inroad for traffic. Bare minimum. And I might go with your suggestion bonny, at least in the short term. It will make it simpler to construct the URLs for the buttons, I can have more, and I can lay them out without ruining the main page (and they are sorely under designed as they stand anyway).

Thanks, guys. This is all perspective I need and don't have.


Liese S. - Sep 27, 2012 4:29:09 pm PDT #1006 of 1416
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

So I'm updating my mailing list from mailchimp, and I'm entering the data into quickbooks, somewhat woefully thinking it's a shame that there's no where else to put the mailchimp special info requests other than the notes field in quickbooks, which is only sort of queryable. I'll have to go back through manually to make sure everyone gets their dvds, and then I'll have to make a note that they did.

And then I accidentally hit the button directly next to the one I've been using for the past eleven years. It says, "Schedule a new todo"

<headdesk>

Of course the functionality is there, I just never noticed.


§ ita § - Sep 30, 2012 7:31:11 pm PDT #1007 of 1416
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Whew! I added a tumblr share picture button to Venus!

It's below the picture: [link]

Should I move it above?

Okay, then, to learn:

  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • Google+


Liese S. - Sep 30, 2012 7:55:36 pm PDT #1008 of 1416
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

No, below looks good, I think. I would want to scroll to see the whole picture before I decided I wanted to share it.


Stephanie - Oct 01, 2012 2:30:35 am PDT #1009 of 1416
Trust my rage

I know this is not the point, but that is a stunning picture.