Building a Community: Facebook promotion and you

[Buster's Uncle]

Because most of you in here won't notice something in Council Room for six months, if ever...

https://www.facebook.com/AlphaCentauri2Forum/

Most people anymore -even ones like me who actively dislike it- have Facebook accounts, God help 'em.

Well, I have stupid Facebook open in a tab all the time, because I promote AC2 a lot there (and it's also the quickest/best way to contact sisko and t_ras).  -And I've managed to draw lots of eyes lately, with interest high in the new Atlas/SMACX image -I guess just because it's neat- scient's SMACX v2.0 Analysis Code DataBase, the new archive of the old Alpha.owo forum and currently, the new SMACX Resource Center that serves as a master index to this and that non-forum AC resource we host.  (Almost time to start pushing something else.)

-And naturally, I'm promoting us as a source for Civ6 news - it's off-mission for this forum, but I've kept a SMACX item pinned at the top of the page to keep things right, and 6, good or bad, should tend to draw Our Kind of People- and when I posted 17 AC2 links in short order on the 24th, most of them 6 stuff, I threw in some other items, like a post in the Star Trek thread about the new official fanfilm guidelines -and most of it, 6 or not, averaged two views apiece. -Except for a science article someone known to me as an AC2 regular 'like'd, and which got 26 'people reached'.

Now, that last is why I write.  I ask you, beg you, really, to 'like' the AC2 page so you'll see it on your timeline when a new item is posted/linked -hopefully, your 'friends', too- and be in the habit of being generous with your 'like's and shares when you're on - it can make a huge difference in helping the hard work of spending time on stupid Facebook posting things to promote our community and get the word out to Our Kind of People.  This is true even if your entire 'friends' list is your mundane elderly relatives who don't game; it's still links spread on Facebook, one of those few sites that's pretty universal - liking and sharing there makes it that much more likely that that 4x gamer who never found our fan community will now, because of you, and it helps raise our search engine ranking.

Please.  My brother used to be part of a military reenactment unit that had the slogan "No problem can't be solved by recruiting MORE MEMBERS!" - which is hogwash, but not entirely wrong or a bad attitude to take for the longevity of the group.  -You can pitch in simply by following our page, and with an occasional press of a button when you're on Facebook...

[Buster's Uncle]

Shameless persistence is part of successful promotion tactics...

[ColdWizard]

Hence adblockers.

[Spacy]

OK, liked the page.  Just for you BU

[Buster's Uncle]

OK, liked the page.  Just for you BU

I neglected to you for that...

[Elok]

Liked it some time ago.  Good luck!

[Buster's Uncle]

Be sure to 'like' any posts linked that strike your fancy...