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Community, Promotion & Engagement

How will having a great profile help me?

  1. Building a complete profile and online personality helps the community get to know you
  2. More users will become fans and follow you when they become interested in who you are as well as your contributions
  3. Users will engage with you online more if they see they have things in common with you
  4. Helps the Allvoices platform match you with like-minded people

How do I build my own community (and gain followers) on Allvoices?

  1. Build a complete profile (show your personality and promote yourself)
  2. Get your friends, family and colleagues to join Allvoices
  3. Encourage people to become your fan and follow you
  4. Share your reports (and encourage others to share them)
  5. Share your profile page URL/link
  6. Encourage people to comment on and contribute to your reports
  7. Promote your reports and profile page through viral marketing

Why should I use Allvoices as my home-base for my content?

You can leverage the Allvoices intelligent platform and profile page features and tabs to host, display and share all your content. The profile page allows you to organize and build a multimedia portfolio. You can also cross-post and add links to your blog or external website.

How do I share content on Allvoices with friends?

You can share any report on Allvoices by emailing it to friends or posting it on Digg, Reddit, Facebook and StumbleUpon. On the report page, scroll down below the report text to the Share section then click on the corresponding icon.

How do I promote my reports on other sites to get more pageviews and buzz?

The first step is to register for accounts on other sites to promote/share your Allvoices reports. The second step is to browse to become familiar with these sites. Please read the terms and conditions for using these sites..

Click the icons to be directed to the corresponding site:

How do I promote on these sites?

Digg Digg

  1. Login to Digg (click Login and enter username and password in lightbox)
  2. Click Submit New in the upper right
  3. Enter the URL of your report page (or report video or image page)
  4. Choose the media type
  5. Click Continue
  6. Enter a title and short description
  7. Choose a thumbnail image (if one is available)
  8. Choose a topic
  9. Preview
  10. Enter the captcha image
  11. Click Submit Story

Reddit Reddit

  1. Under search reddit, login by entering your username and password
  2. Click login
  3. Click Submit a link in the upper right
  4. Enter URL and title
  5. Choose a category in the drop-down menu: reddit.com (main) or subreddit category
  6. Click submit

StumbleUpon StumbleUpon

  1. Sign in to StumbleUpon
  2. Click Add this toolbar in the upper right to download the StumbleUpon toolbar
    Note: Promote news you like from other sites so you're not banned for submitting only content from Allvoices. Also, only promote 1-2 Allvoices reports per day.
  3. When you want to promote one of your Allvoices reports, make sure you're signed into the StumbleUpon and see the toolbar
  4. Go to your report page
  5. Click I like it! on the StumbleUpon toolbar
  6. A StumbleUpon window will appear within your browser window
  7. The title will be automatically filled in
  8. Enter your review (i.e. comment on the news)
  9. Click a topic
  10. Enter tags (it doesn't allow you to copy and paste tags however)
  11. Click No if it's not adult content
  12. Click Submit the Site

NOTE: The system will check for similar or duplicate submissions.

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