Comments on: Afrika http://technosailor.com/2008/02/23/afrika/ Business and Technology with Common Sense Thu, 24 May 2012 21:21:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta4-20883 By: nick bouton http://technosailor.com/2008/02/23/afrika/comment-page-1/#comment-43570 nick bouton Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:58:13 +0000 http://technosailor.com/2008/02/23/afrika/#comment-43570 If you know of any sites you think would be worthwhile to talk to about it, I'd love to get more people blogging about it. The main problem I've been running into is that most of the press I've been getting is on Web 2.0, industry-related sites. They're not exactly my target audience -- while nice to get critical praise from people in my field, getting writers to join the site is my primary goal. In that area, I'd love to get more eyeballs.. I think that if I could generate some press within that end of the media spectrum, it would be way more valuable. Not that I'm complaining - the site's gotten some excellent blog coverage, the number of registrations and regular contributors is on the rise, and traffic numbers are great considering the site is only 2 months old. Probably just startup anxiety. At least I don't have any significant costs other than hosting. :) If you know of any sites you think would be worthwhile to talk to about it, I’d love to get more people blogging about it. The main problem I’ve been running into is that most of the press I’ve been getting is on Web 2.0, industry-related sites. They’re not exactly my target audience — while nice to get critical praise from people in my field, getting writers to join the site is my primary goal. In that area, I’d love to get more eyeballs.. I think that if I could generate some press within that end of the media spectrum, it would be way more valuable.

Not that I’m complaining – the site’s gotten some excellent blog coverage, the number of registrations and regular contributors is on the rise, and traffic numbers are great considering the site is only 2 months old. Probably just startup anxiety. At least I don’t have any significant costs other than hosting. :)

]]> By: Aaron Brazell http://technosailor.com/2008/02/23/afrika/comment-page-1/#comment-43569 Aaron Brazell Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:49:08 +0000 http://technosailor.com/2008/02/23/afrika/#comment-43569 Nick- Thanks for the comment. About Protagonize. Love it, just need time to add to the stories I've been working on. :) LMK if I can do anything to help spread that word about Protagonize. Nick-

Thanks for the comment. About Protagonize. Love it, just need time to add to the stories I’ve been working on. :) LMK if I can do anything to help spread that word about Protagonize.

]]> By: nick bouton http://technosailor.com/2008/02/23/afrika/comment-page-1/#comment-43568 nick bouton Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:41:09 +0000 http://technosailor.com/2008/02/23/afrika/#comment-43568 Hey Aaron, I was reading your personal brand post this morning and noticed the "Technosailor fiction" block in your navigation bar -- that's awesome. I'm tempted to add some kind of trackback/pingback capturing mechanism to Protagonize stories and author profiles just to be able to keep track of people deep linking into stories and chapters/branches. Glad to see you're enjoying the site... with respect to your other blog post, you're totally right. It's a tough slog building up an online persona in order to drive a brand/product. I've been working at it slowly since launching Protagonize (and before that, but that was more general) and it's definitely a lot of work, though extremely valuable. Hey Aaron,

I was reading your personal brand post this morning and noticed the “Technosailor fiction” block in your navigation bar — that’s awesome. I’m tempted to add some kind of trackback/pingback capturing mechanism to Protagonize stories and author profiles just to be able to keep track of people deep linking into stories and chapters/branches.

Glad to see you’re enjoying the site… with respect to your other blog post, you’re totally right. It’s a tough slog building up an online persona in order to drive a brand/product. I’ve been working at it slowly since launching Protagonize (and before that, but that was more general) and it’s definitely a lot of work, though extremely valuable.

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