Introducing: The WAR Community Promotion Initiative

[PhoenixRed]

Are you a WAR fansite admin? Do you write a blog for WAR? How about other forums or informational sites? If you run a community site, or contribute to the WAR fan community in your own way, we at Warhammer Alliance are beginning a program to benefit you and anyone who participates.

We call this program the WAR Community Promotion Initiative, or WCPI for short, and it is our effort to get other sites in the WAR community seen, heard, and otherwise looked at, through mutually beneficial, simple, cross-promotion. Inspired by efforts such as January's Age of Blogging, the WCPI seeks to continue and expand the effort across all kinds of WAR community sites.

Here's what you need:

• An active WAR fansite/blog/forum/podcast/other community resource (active meaning at least one post a week)
• Willingness to promote other sites such as yourself!

Here's how it works:

• At least once a week, promote someone else in the WCPI via a link and description/content
• Tell us you did it, and where!

That's it! The more who participate, the more likelihood that you will get promoted by another site. And you'll have a chance to talk to other sites about further cross-promotion opportunities as well. We think that with a membership requirement of 4 cross-promotion posts a month, it's easy to get involved and also get promoted as well!

Now, we here at Warhammer Alliance know that bonus incentives can't hurt, so we're throwing in the following for all active participating WCPI members:

• New usergroup with accompanying title, "WAR Lord"
• Green Colored username
• Double the PM box capacity (100 messages as opposed to 50)
• Ability to create blogs on Warhammer Alliance via the User CP
• Custom avatar request (restrained to the standard dimensions we use with a 1 pixel black border)
• Access to a private forum for the WCPI
• Warhammer Alliance will frontpage/promote selected content pieces from your site every month

And that's not all. There's a reason we ask people to tell us when they promote someone. Along with particpating in the program ourselves, Warhammer Alliance will be keeping a running tally of the number of times someone participates in the program. Each month, we will tally the points, and the WCPI member with the most points will be prominently featured for a week on Warhammer Alliance in a Monthly Community Focus! As we know we aren't the only site in town, we want to leverage our own efforts to recognize people who do their best to promote other sites, and we'll be doing our best to promote WCPI members as well.

The WCPI begins as soon as we begin receiving members, but we'll be tracking points for our monthly Community Focus starting March 1st.

If you're at all interested in the program, please PM PhoenixRed with your site URL or reply to this thread with it, along with any questions you have, so we can get you started.

Let's work together to bring more exposure to each other in the Warhammer community.

[Voss]

This sounds fantastic, now it's time for me to finally get myself going on my blog!

PM sent oh great leader!

[Cecillia]

Kirov reporting.

[idris]

And hi all, from Arbitrary : Book of Grudges!

A bit absent for the next few days due to overtime at work, but I'm around and stalking.

[Rackham]

A great idea and even better rewards! Where do I sign up? *Posts here*

Count me in.

- Greg

aka

[Khannage]

I manage a site that has just launched and would love to help out! Really great to see a great site like WHA introducing initiatives like this.

Khannage

[Marsares]

I maintain our guild website, and would be more than happy to participate in this. That is, if guild websites are allowed to participate. Have a look at ours, and let me know what you think: www.lostguard.com

[Kutu]

Great idea, always looking for the chance to promote more war related content and blogs!

Blogs for the blogroll

[Dont]

I'd be happy to support this initiative.

[Syp]

Who are you people, and what have you done with my underwear?

[Ziss]

I'm in : )

[PhoenixRed]

Everyone up to here has been added. Thanks for your support! Let's get more folks in on this!

[Werit]

Well, it won't succeed without more Dwarves. Add one more

[Marsares]

Lots of green names suddenly! Can't wait to get this started, should be fun!

[Mutters]

Dude, I'm on it. Is there a list of who to promote on which week? Or do we just promote whoever we feel like?

oh, and its Theoryhammer.net.