Questions tagged [site-promotion]
When you wish to promote the main Ask Different site, this is a good place to discuss your ideas and experiences with how we can better spread the word.
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Is it OSX or OS X?
Or does it even matter?
As I mentioned yesterday, I'm editing a ton of question titles. I tend to change OSX to OS X just out of personal preference, but I wonder if that will annoy anyone?
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The new iPad is here - ask different and win one! [closed]
Edit: The contest has now officially ended. Congrats to everyone who completed the Levels!
Since we had 10 people complete Level 3 (WOW! You guys are awesome), we have to implement the tie breaker. ...
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Promoting Apple.SE
Apple.SE needs promotion to increase both the amount of users and questions on Apple.SE. (Mind you we still have 68 days to prove our worth)
I'm noticing the following things really need help:
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Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2012
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?
TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, they ...
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Who is this character with the Ψ and the ♦, running around editing all these posts? (An introduction.)
I'm just dropping in to introduce myself. My name's Abby (you may have gathered this already), and I work for Stack Exchange as a member of their brand new CHAOS team. I've been given temporary ...
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Who owns @askdifferent on twitter?
There is a twitter account with our name that has no tweets or followers and isn't following anyone. My fervent hope is that someone in the Ask Different community is squatting on it in case a use for ...
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How, exactly, would winners be determined if more than five users complete Level 3? [closed]
In the New iPad Contest, the rules state:
We can give away a maximum of 25 iPod touch devices and a maximum of 6 new iPads (5 for Level 3, and 1 for the raffle). In the event that more than the ...
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If there are 6 winners in Level 3, will the one ranked 6 win an iPod? [closed]
It's not so clear from the contest rules:
We can give away a maximum of 25 iPod touch devices and a maximum of 6 new iPads (5 for Level 3, and 1 for the raffle). In the event that more than the ...
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Why is this site called "ask different"? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ask Different, really? Surely Ask Apple
I'm using a Mac right now to post this. And I'm not "different".
So why is this site called "Ask Different"? In my opinion, it kind ...
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How do we keep the exciting promotion from reducing the quality of the site?
So the big promotion is getting far more participation than I ever expected was possible. This is a big win, and CHAOS pulled off an amazing thing here. Kudos for all your planning work! Less than a ...
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What/Where is the hall of Ask Different inquisitors page?
On the recent site-promotion page was the following nugget:
everyone who completes Level 1: Use Different and beyond will have
their gravatars honored in the hall of Ask Different inquisitors ...
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Mountain Lion Challenge - ask, answer, blog and win Apple products! [closed]
Congratulations to our winners!
For asking a Nice Question:
Felix
Nathan Greenstein
Viktor
For asking a Popular Question:
Vivart
KMC
Dennis Madsen
For giving a Nice Answer:
Scot
meeee
XAleXOwnZX
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The iOS Challenge- Winners! [closed]
Update: Congratulations to the following people for winning the iOS Challenge!
The prize for the most viewed question goes to jjeaton.
The prize for the highest scored question goes to Michiel.
The ...
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Possible bug in the contest share count [closed]
Here’s a screenshot from Adam Eberbach’s profile (not that it matters who it’s from — this is just so you can reproduce the issue):
Note that it says “19/20 shares”, even though level 3 is 100% ...
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Am I at Level 2 or not? [closed]
My progress bar shows that I've hit level 2. I've received a notice on the site. However, the number of shares and questions/answers with 2 up votes has gone down. I can understand the Q&A getting ...
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Sharing links, question about which syntax is valid
A link that I share by copying the URL from the link button looks like
http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/45919/3117
but a link I share by clicking the banner-like share to Facebook, twitter etc. ...
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