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Posted: 02 April 2008 10:11 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Hello fellow Litmocracieans (hmm..will need to find a better term…),

I’ve been meaning to start this thread for a while, but always pushed back to later because, well, I wanted to deliver it with a POW. I now realize that the more I wait, the less POW, so here, I’m just writing it as it comes.

For all of us who enjoy coming here, and writing, and reading, and helping each other out with comments and encouragements, Litmocracy is a great place. In the beginning, I was here every day, posting, replying, and offering suggestions. Life has a way to take over sometimes, and I am often away for a while - although never forgetting about the site.

Now this may seem harsh for those of you who are here on a regular basis, but I think one of the reasons it is so easy for me to let life get in the way is that I could sometimes (as most of you I am sure) wait for days until someone replied, or posted a comment. So I thought to myself: no biggie if I’m not on tonight, there probably isn’t anyone logged in at the moment…Which is completely normal within a small community of regulars who each have a life and live in different time zones. Not to mention that a lot of us spend our time on Litmocracy working on submissions, not hanging out in the forums.

This is why we need to build a bigger community. And I don’t mean a tighter community, because I think that we already have that - that’s what’s so great about this place. At any one time, even if just a few of us are online, I know I can count on any one of you to read, comment, and be honest in your suggestions. 

What I’ve been doing is posting ads for the site around town. Hoping that someone picks it up and checks it out, then shares with friends and family if they like what they see…and it’s working a little bit, slowly but surely. I don’t know how many regulars I create out of this, but hey, at least it’s a start.

If you’d like to use the flyers / poster to advertise in your own area, you can access them here, here and here. The first two are meant to be printed front / back (3 flyers per page), and the third one is a poster.

Have any of you been doing something similar, or something completely different to try and promote the site? I think if all of us pitched in, we’d have a better chance of attracting writers - and publishers.

I thought of starting this thread to get ideas going, or to hear what everyone is doing, in the hope that we can keep building on a community that is already, in my heart at least, a family.

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Posted: 09 April 2008 10:37 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Is there a flyer here that I could print? Or should I make one? I could give it out to the large writer’s club that I belong to at their meeting this Saturday.

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Posted: 09 April 2008 10:40 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Rreed, that’s an awesome idea!
I just made up the flyers, but you’re welcome to use them - or make your own, whatever you prefer.
I’ll PM you what I have and you can modify them as you see fit.

I have flyers (3 to a page) meant to be printed front/back and a poster with tear-away thingys.

Ok instead of trying to draw a picture with words, why don’t I just send them to you…:)

Thanks for your help!

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EDIT: Looks like the files are too large to send by PM, so I’m trying to find another way…Dave tells me patience is a virtue. But he’ll find a way smile

EDIT 2: Dave rocks. You can find links to the flyers in the first post of this thread.

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Posted: 11 April 2008 10:10 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Word just shows me blank pages. Whether I get the flyers from StarLizard’s email or click on the link here, all I get is blank pages. Strangely, if I click “Quick Look” in the email I was sent, I do see the flyers. I can’t print them from there, though.

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Posted: 12 April 2008 02:59 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Try right-clicking the link and doing a save-as.  After saving the document, then open it.

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Posted: 12 April 2008 05:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Well, you won’t believe this. When I started playing with right-clicking, I found I could open the files with Text Edit, or even with Appleworks, (converted by Mac Link Plus) but never with Word. Word only comes up with blank pages. Why? You will have to ask the capricious and inscrutable computer gods. Anyway, it looks like I will be able to print out flyers for the writers meeting.

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Posted: 12 April 2008 08:58 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Can you send the version of your browser and the version of Word that you have?  I don’t think I’d be able to suggest a fix, but I am curious.  Hopefully anyone else who tries it will also let us know what combinations work or didn’t work for them.

It works for me and I’m using Firefox/2.0.0.13 and Word 2003, 11.8134.8132, SP2 comes up (not blank) when I click the link.

Dave.

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Posted: 13 April 2008 12:32 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Firefox 2.0.0.1
Word for Mac 11.3.5

The meeting went well. I handed out a bunch of flyers. I hope they make some of the people check this place out.

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Posted: 16 April 2008 01:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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Awesome!
I’m sure it will. If these people belong to a writer’s club then they’re certain to be at least curious about this site.
Great job Rreed423!

Let’s keep it up.

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Posted: 03 June 2010 05:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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hello everybody,
Thanks for post . It’s really informative stuff. I really like this information to learn a lot and have a nice experience here . I share this nice information with my friends.my best regards friends.

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Posted: 02 July 2010 05:35 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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I’ve been homeschooled and I think it has its pros and cons, which can become problems or blessings according to the decisions and lifestyle of the individual family. I’d certainly not advocate any prevention of it on the part of the state, unless it could be indubitably proved that the children’s education was being neglected. However, I think that placing the right tools in the hands of the parents is highly important.

I’m probably not the best judge of the socialization aspect, because I’m often a taciturn bookworm. (Who can wax garrulous in the right company.) I’m not a person who feels the need of a lot of friends and socialization; but I think I can talk to and enjoy people of many age groups. (Fellow teens usually, but not always, excepted.)


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Posted: 13 October 2010 01:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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I myself have been home school and so shall my children. If the parent is devoting the time and giving a good effort to advance their child then I believe this can’t be matched by traditional schooling.

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Posted: 03 December 2010 12:11 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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I’ll promote this site only it the admin allows posting of links (anchor text) in the bio & sig sections is allowed like other forums.

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Posted: 03 December 2010 02:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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Great!  What do you like best about the site?

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Posted: 24 December 2010 07:05 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]
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Hmmm where to start…? Best of best? Being able to express myself unrestrained by society’s harsh and ridiculous standards :D (I do that anyway, but here, I don’t get banned for it, I actually get a pat on the back for it!)

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Posted: 17 January 2011 12:04 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]
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Well, what do you guys think?  Should we use this kind of spammy input as fodder for jokes, or just delete it?  Maybe I’ll come up with something tomorrow.  For now I’ll leave it as a writing exercise - can you be inspired to write something by thinking about what Coco wrote?

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