How To Supercharge the ActiveRain Dashboard with Undiscovered Writers and GREAT FEATURES

Janet,

Curious to see what response you get....sounds like fun!

Janet I had suggested they do an "unfeatured" Friday once a month and feature ONLY bloggers that had never been featured.

You'll make the dash again, I am sure with this because it is worth talking about, but I am really tired of reading the same folks.  Looking for some new bloggers.  What are those 200 new signups a day doing?

As a new AR member I totally agree with your post. I really enjoy it and have learned everything I know about blogging from AR. But the idea of having newer members become better known is very important. Otherwise many folks may start to think that it's a clickish clan which would eventually come back and bite em in the shiney hiney.

This idea sounds BUENO!  Themes and new writers!  I do not disagree with what they put up there but it does recently seem like themes so why not announce daily themes and put them out there for us to write about. 

I'm not sure how that would improve the "feature worthiness" of individual posts.

It would give the writer the "what" but not the how.

Hi Janet,

I think its a great idea.  Personally, most of my stuff is localism.  Of little interest to anything but local agents and consumers. That's where I focus my attention. So I'm not surprised that my posts are left alone by most. Nor does it bother me.  But new bloggers often feel discouraged.

For those new writers who feel "lost" the idea of giving them some direction might help them actually get started writing regularly.  Sometimes,  its hard to wrap your head around WHAT to write.  This is particularly true for those who have never blogged.   Being given some direction - or perhaps a goal - might help them organize their thoughts. This would also allow new members who are writing and feel invisible to have a chance to stand out and not get lost in the flood of posts.

Janet - Great idea!  However, like Ruthmarie, most of the stuff I write is localism stuff of member only picture posts.  How about if the Gods just designate certain days as "No Bashing" day, where they don't feature bashing posts.

Interesting idea. My only thoughts is this ... if too few people write something, AR would possibly be forced to promote lower quality work. But this seems like a good idea for once a week or something. I'd like to see it limited to 1 or 2 maybe ... :)