The Captain’s Roving Band of Lens Promotion
There are tons of social bookmarking and networking sites out there. However, if you don’t have any friends on these sites, you aren’t very likely to be heard.
So, in the interest of spreading the word about all the great lenses everyone is making, we have created the Captain’s Roving Band.
We have created core groups on four social networking sites: Twitter, Wis.Dm, Propeller, and Stumble Upon. These groups will be used to promote our lenses and other awesome things we find around the net that’s promotion worthy.
What you have to do: Get an account at each network and become friends with our Founding Members (see below). Boom! You instantly have a group of friends to get started with on each network.
What makes this work: whenever you make a lens, now you just submit it to a few places instead of spreading it around the internet in a bunch of places without any force behind it. when you submit your lens to the sites in the Roving Band, check your profile and see what the rest of the band has submitted lately as well. More focused promotion = more traffic = more general piratey awesomeness.
The Caveat: The Roving Band helps those that help it… Arrrrgghh. If ye don’t want to help, ye walk the plank..
The Band’s Ports of Call:
Ask a question where the answer can be found on your lens. Similar to Yahoo Answers but with better networking and do follow links. See the Sneaky Wis.Dm Trick for full details.
Note: Make sure that you ‘thumbs up’ your favorite questions, that’s how we get questions pushed to the front page!
Roving Band Members
Captainsquid
Dougeby
TheFluffanutta
Deb13
gypsypirate
katiyana
captainkalamazo0
djnuttal
webnh
LadyRaine
janallbright
capybara
steveffeo
AKdude
Similar to Digg, but with more general submission categories. I think it is a little less ’serious’ and fit’s the Squidoo personality a bit better
Roving Band Members
Loyalis
GypsyPirate
Dougeby
Flowergardener
TheFluffanutta
jeffwend
djnuttal
webnh
PaladinGames
allbright
EverythingMouse
AKdude
Leave very short messages or ‘twits’. Just be careful you aren’t posting bunches and bunches of messages a day so you become your own ‘twit’
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Roving Band Members
Loyalis
thefluffanutta
mrlewissmile
dougeby
spud
MargaretSchaut
dciniowa
katiyana
bcnola
djnuttal
webnh
PaladinGames
What good Squidoo Pirate doesn’t like Stumbling around the back alleyways of the internet? None, I say!
Roving Band Members
Loyalis
GypsyPirate
thefluffanutta
zachsg
dougeby
GodsDaughter
katiyana
earthsolution
infowarehouse
djnuttal
sitbyme
PaladinGames
trevorme
americannj
clouda9
EverythingMouse
gallito89
AKdude
After signing up, just add the Roving Band as friends and begin your happy Pirating! make sure and announce your usernames here so you can make your Roving Membership Official!
Arrr…Me smell blood in them there social bookmarking waters…
-The Captain
December 11th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Hey everybody, jeffwend here.
for wis.dm my username is captainkalamazoo
stumbleupon, username is earthsolution
propeller, username is jeffwend
December 11th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Arrrr. Um, Arrrrgggh. Er, aawwwwoooorrrrrr.
OK, I’m not much of a pirate, but I will join in anyway.
December 11th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
(p.s. I’m soniasimone on twitter, feel free to tweet away at me.)
December 12th, 2007 at 3:30 am
Just added roving band to twitter(bcnola) and stumble upon (infowarehouse)
December 13th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I am “djnuttall” on all of the above. I will add you all as soon as I can!
December 13th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Took me a minute to wrap my mind around social networking but I think I have the hang of it now. I have added everyone on all 4 lists.
I used the name “webnh” for wis.dm, propeller and twitter and for stumbleupon I used “sitbyme”
So please add me to your roving band..
Thanks
Craig
December 14th, 2007 at 7:36 am
On Wis.dm I am LadyRaine
On Propeller, StumbleUpon, and Twitter I’m PaladinGames
Be my friend!
December 15th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Yay – new pirates! I think I have everyone added.
December 15th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Great idea! I’ve joined stumbleupon as trevorme (with an “e”):
http://trevorme.stumbleupon.com/
December 15th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Hi Captain Squid:
Can you please add Americannj to the roving band at stumbleupon? I have added everyone in the list above as friends.
Thanx
G.S.
December 15th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I have added the Roving Band to my friend’s list on SU…clouda9
December 17th, 2007 at 1:27 am
you have the best ideas,
on wis.dm I am…. janallbright
on propeller….. allbright
thanks, Jan
December 17th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Hello all have made you all my friends on Wis.dm and will work on the others soon. My username is Capybara. Great idea by the way
Thanks Capybara
December 17th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Hello Captain.
What a great idea. I am EverythingMouse on propeller,stumbleupon. I am adding the roving band and look forward to joining this band!
Alison
December 19th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Have befriended you all on Wisdm thanks for the tip and send me a question.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Excellent idea did something similar for the Foundation
http://www.howtoorganicgarden.com/ffef_online_web_2_0.htm
Signing up for Wis.dm and propeller using Steveffeo now
I have tried to add all the lensmasters I can find at the other services, I would be happy to add for each of them f people are members.
Peace
Steve
December 26th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
So many sites – so little time – but I’ll try to get caught up now that the holiday rush is over!!
December 30th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Hey Joe
I’ve been waiting since Dec 13th to get on the 4 lists. I know your busier then all get out but would you please add me to the lists above.. I use “sitbyme” on stumbleupon and “webnh” on the other 3
Thanks a bunch
December 30th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
webnh,
By posting a comment with your usernames, you are essentially on the list. Just double check to make sure you are friends with my screennames. The roving band is pretty much anyone else who is one of my friends on those 4 services, so just add them as friends and then you should be all set.
Does that make any sense?
-The Captain
December 31st, 2007 at 10:42 am
“does that make sense?” not really
I became friends with everyone on the list and most of them returned the gesture. However new people are not going to scan the comment section to find me nor am I going to scan the comment section to find them.
I suspect all new people will add people already on the list to their friends but not the people in the comment section.
If everyone leaving a comment are put on the list then they get the benefit from being added by all new people.
Am I making sense?
Thanks
Webnh
January 4th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
webnh,
Finally got around to updating the list. Sorry about the wait time on that, things have been crazy.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Hey all, joining up on the stumble band
Username on there is gallito89, adding all the stumblers to my friends.
January 6th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Hi all, This sounds like fun. I am AKdude on wis.dm, propeller and stumbleupon. I’ve already added you all as friends on these 3 sites and wandered around.
Glad to join your roving band.
– AKdude
January 7th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Great list, Captain! I’m on Wisd.m, Propeller, and Twitter as crystalbooth. On StumbleUpon, I’m crysbooth. I’ve got almost everybody added on the first 3. Will work on SU friends tomorrow.
Keep up the great tips!
~ Crystall
January 8th, 2008 at 8:11 am
I will add everyone as my Stumble Upon friends. I’m listed as “mulberryin” there. Thanks!
January 8th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Me again,
I’m adding your Roving Band Members to my friends on Propeller too. I’m just known as “mulberry” there.
January 8th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I’m rms at wisdm. I haven’t joined the other spots yet.
January 10th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Propeller username = Riatsala
StumbleUpon username = webman1
Here’s a lens I made about SU that will be useful for beginners: http://www.squidoo.com/stumble-upon
January 10th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
this is a great idea to get everyone together on these social sites. i’ve created a lens that hopefully will make it easier and more efficient.
Add Your Profile
add your profile url to the plexo for the appropriate social site and have a link directly to you. no more searching for each name.
January 11th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I got everyone on the main list and now I’m working on the comment section. Many of you I had already through other way and it surely does make the world seem very small.
This is such a great idea Captain and I’m glad to be aboard (but please don’t make me walk the plank)
Propeller – skouzi
SU – blujeanmomma
Wis.dm – sanko14
Twitter – healthyideas
April 6th, 2008 at 9:19 am
I’ve signed up at Wis.dm, Propeller, Twitter, and Stumble Upon with my ID of:
jaguarjulie
FYI — I think I figured out SU, but not sure about Propeller and Twitter w/adding of friends. Finding Wis.dm is pretty cool.
Will be on the lookout for this ‘roving band’ as I hate to walk the plank mateys … argh, I can’t swim ya know.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Hey Captain — can ya help out a ‘blonde’ with some straightforward instructions for adding friends on each of these sites? I do believe SU is the easiest, but how does one add friends on the others?
Oh, I see Wis.dm has an additional bit of info for member’s IDs:
http://wis.dm/users/59055-jaguarjulie
Thanks for the help — much appreciated.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Hi Captain,
Just found this post, and will be adding the band to my friends. On Twitter, Propeller, Wis.dm and most other social sites (and Squidoo) my user name is: funwithtrains.
On StumbleUpon I’m: stumbletrains
On Digg I’m: KwikLinks
Looking forward to joining your roving band! Regards, Rob