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Members should open new forums if they intend to keep their forums open and have interesting topics.

I think every member should open at least one forum and actively participate in it, as a personal responsibility to themself and also as part of bringing in more traffic.

The Code Of Conduct says we can't send messages to people without their permission, so I don't see how we're supposed to offer advice to nominees thru messages here.

Public forums to promote people and also offer advice are a great idea! It's fun to see lots of promotional threads.

An offline friend asked me why we don't we make 4 promotional teams, one for each nominee...usually some are more popular than others, that's a good idea to make everyone feel like part of the action and possibly get more votes if they're lagging behind. That doesn't have to be an official idea, it's just something to think about.

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There are a lot of good points in this discussion and good things are coming out of it. The pop up POTW on every page with a link to vote, a great landing page for the vote which is very attractive and has all of the information one needs to participate.

Lets give this a chance to work without making any more changes and opening more forums....

... Coaching (nominees) them during and after they have been nominated is too late. We have a lot of well qualified people that do not need a lot of coaching. I will be more active in the nominating process in the future. I will in the future make sure they are ready and want to be nominated before I do it.

Ken

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Good morning everyone and how is your Sunday going?

Number one, it is good to see people being proactive and productive in a way that will help everyone, so that is very heartening.

Number two - It's great to see Dennis being "officially" part of the planning and making changes to get Adland on a better course and I think it safe to say that for everyone who is taking the time and the effort to delve into the issues and come up with a plan that is workable for all, really need to take a bow!

Three - as I have said so many times and I'm sure to some it may be boring, the social landscape has changed so much that what worked in the 90's, will not work today.

People go to social communities to share, to have fun and to build "their personal brand" via topics of interest. Understand why each of the big communities work is important in creating a plan for Adland. There are many "smaller" communities that are doing well and thrive because they have learned the lessons from their bigger cousins and they do not try to reinvent the wheel. They go to what works and they target people to a specific way of doing things. To me this is not about remaking Adland into a Facebook, but rather a thriving community that will meet the needs of the people who come in... I guess I would compare it to living in the city versus living in the suburbs..there is a place for everyone.

I am off topic and for that I apologize, but I felt it important to say this here.

Contests! What an amazing thing to do and people love them, but what to do to get people wanting to enter. The reality is that it takes just one person and then another and then another to get people involved and there has to be a prize at the end that will have people go..yipee and spread the word...the power of social media!

Keep things simple - do not reinvent the wheel

Make it easy for people to come in and vote, make it easy for people to see the prize and make it easy for people to navigate.

The nuts and bolts can get a bit hairy, but can be fun also..well kind of fun...lol

Just my thoughts on this matter...

No big deal but good to clarify the points for the purpose of this discussion. Reporting unwanted messages has never been a real issue just click the and state your reason for a complaint.

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Hi Ken......

"The Code Of Conduct says we can't send messages to people without their permission, so I don't see how we're supposed to offer advice to nominees thru messages here."

I have noted that people are questioning the issue of sending private messages, especially to those who are not on their "contact list" and it is one that should be clarified or at the very least talked about.

When I see this " you can't send messages without their permission" I take it to mean that you can't send them advertisements ( unsolicited advertising) or mail that would be harassing or any other negative form of communications.

There are many social communities that have the feature of sending a message and there have also been many discussions regarding it ( especially on LinkedIn)

This is how I personally look at the situation - If I have noted that a person has been looking at my profile, it says to me that they are curious about who I am or what I am doing. I do not feel it intrusive nor going against any code to introduce myself and say Hi, thanks for your interest and is there anything that you can answer or help the person with.... If it is of mutual benefit to become contacts, then this is great. If the person is not interested, that again ( to me is O.K).

I feel that common sense needs to be used in this style of discussion and a large amount of social etiquette used.

Just my 2 cents thought on the matter.....

P.S. dang...did I put this in the right forum?