activities & promotions

[judes]

I thought I would start a new topic to discuss various activities we can start to keep jcnet alive and active. I've skimmed through the other threads to find the ones that people keep on bringing up and seem to be interesting ideas, and I'll keep on updating this list as we go.

1) Welcoming Committee / Mentor Program: (http://www.jay-chou.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19956) this will help ease newbies into the forum and "train" them into becoming good members of the forum. It will also make them feel more welcome. This could involve -
a) a PM being sent to all newbies as they register to direct them to the necessary posts they should read about the rules
b) a volunteer run mentor program where each newbie can 'sign up' or is randomnly assigned to a mentor that they can ask questions to and talk to so they won't feel so lost
c) a list of members with a different color that are listed in the bottom "who's online" bar that newbies can PM instead of going directly to a mod or an admin so this takes the pressure off the mods.

2) Karaoke / Art / Writing Contests: (http://www.jay-chou.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19960) I know a lot of people were surprised at the lack of interest in the karaoke/cover design contest, perhaps it was just a bad time in the year where everybody was busy or because it wasn't promoted well, or because it was too big for Karen to run by herself, I don't know, but I know we can think of ways to make contests more accessible and popular. Here are some suggestions:
a) Move away from Jay themed contests to general contests so that more people participate.
b) Have actual "judges" instead of voting so that all participants can get constructive feedback on their work
c) Can also add to above where you can have a popularity vote like we did before to see whose work is liked by whoever cares to vote
d) a "hall of fame" for members whose works win and these can be displayed on an actual site in recognition

3) Forum Games: I don't have any experience in these games but they seem to boost activity and people seem to like them a lot. I don't have much to add here and someone with more experience probably wants to suggest things.
a) Induction into social groups. Get all members involved with the incentive that you can be accepted into the social groups if you participate. Once again, a Hall of Fame can be put in place for this on the website.
b) a "newspaper" that can be released at this time to get people aware of what is going on in the games, recognition for most active players / social groups, and upcoming activites.

4) Theme Weeks: Theme weeks were always one of my favourite parts of JCnet because there's a lot of wacky and crazy things that happen.
a) Keep group theme weeks but expand so that regular members can participate as well.
b) Some of the new forums with their mods can also make a theme week related to their forum if they have enough members who want to participate.
c) Artist theme weeks. I've seen these for other group theme weeks as well, and I think they're cute, so fans can participate this way by expressing their love for a certain artist. (we've already seen this around, like for rain's bday and such)
d) Contests: best theme week, best banner, etc etc. I think it would be interesting for someone to collect the banners and have a record of them somewhere. A team could take care of this and put it up on a webpage.

5) Plaza Points: I'm not sure how this plaza points thing works, but like other people suggested, they have been used at certain places to purchase translations / subs / etcs.

6) Layout / Banner Competitions: Another suggestion that has been made, and perhaps this could be done every few months just to keep the look of jcnet fresh and more interesting. People are attracted by flashy things, so...
a) Promo banners for JCNET? If we promote jcnet on our webpages, blogs, livejournals, xangas, etc, perhaps more people would click and visit us.

7) English subbing / Translations (http://www.jay-chou.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19958): We could set up JCNET with a reputation of good, reliable english translations of news from Asia especially from the entertainment angle. We could also have translations of songs, albums, interviews, etc. We could expand from our focus on Jay to other artists / entertainers or even to upcoming movies / shows.

8) Album / book / drama / movie reviews: (http://www.jay-chou.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=94) This ties directly with the idea above, that jcnet could be a source of knowledge about asian entertainment BUT cleaner, more efficient, and with more information than the other forums.

9) Peer Leaders: JCNET Peer Leaders would be a group that works with the Relationships/Advice Forum who would give good advice on just about any subject and provide help and mentoring for members who need it. They would also extend their "services" via AIM/MSN/e-mail/PM to privately mentor members who really need someone to talk to. (written by twilighthush)
a) screening process required for leaders, participants as well?

10) JCNET Development Team (http://www.jay-chou.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19953): Specifically geared towards the futher development of the forums. These are the people who will help to initiate contests, create stimulating discussions, reach out to members, try to get more people to join, give ideas for new forums, etc. etc. The key to this team is creativity and teamwork! Everyone must contribute and work together and must be active on the forums. (written by twilighthush)
a) I think participation in this should be given a lot of freedom as people have other obligations in their lives, and I think new members also have a lot of good suggestions too, so perhaps the "team" can be more of a kind of community / volunteer group effort?

11) JCNET Space: Individual profiles. This page would allow us to upload a few pictures, and write information about ourselves. We would also be able to add other JCNET members as friends. Think "Facebook" or "Myspace" only JCNET-type.
a) This could be done as our own individual pages on the webpage (written by twilighthush)
b) "Feelings" type forum where you can have a thread of journal entries and people can read and respond.

Discuss. Suggest.

[twilighthush]

judes ideas are all great -- personally I think we should adopt all of them, though I'm not sure how Plaza Points really work either. I personally LOVE the concept of Writing Contests!

As for my own ideas:

1. Peer Leaders
JCNET Peer Leaders would be a group that works with the Relationships/Advice Forum who would give good advice on just about any subject and provide help and mentoring for members who need it. They would also extend their "services" via AIM/MSN/e-mail/PM to privately mentor members who really need someone to talk to. IMHO, there should be a bit of a screening process to become a leader, because not all advice is good advice, and a certain degree of maturity and wisdom must be possessed by the leaders.

2. JCNET Development Team
Specifically geared towards the futher development of the forums. These are the people who will help to initiate contests, create stimulating discussions, reach out to members, try to get more people to join, give ideas for new forums, etc. etc. The key to this team is creativity and teamwork! Everyone must contribute and work together and must be active on the forums.

3. JCNET Space
Even though this is a forum and we're all communicating on it to begin with, I wonder if it's possible for us to create our own individual profile pages that goes far beyond the little profile we currently have. This page would allow us to upload a few pictures, and write information about ourselves. We would also be able to add other JCNET members as friends. Think "Facebook" or "Myspace" only JCNET-type. It might be too much for the admin to handle, but it might be something fun to consider. Maybe there's a way to do it. Maybe not. XD;

I have to go soon, but I'm sure I'll think of more.

[judes]

^ yes i think the peer leaders one would be a good idea, but we also have to make sure no trolls come along and harass people on msn or anything like bots can get ahold of our msn addresses. there are a lot of helpful people on jcnet and i'm sure some people would love to offer a helping hand to people. we have to make sure that this doesn't extend into counselling though, because there are some medical programs that people on this forum shouldn't be giving advice about hmm.

i'll add those suggestions onto the list.
i'm not sure how much bandwidth is required to run a "space" for each member, and i hope we won't have a ton of them there taking up space and not being updated. i think i put somewhere the idea of a "feelings/diary" forum where people just have a thread and post random thoughts and other people can join in and talk to them.

oh and i think having a jcnet development team is great.
we'll keep ideas circulating and fresh so that admins/mods don't have to keep on struggling to run things by themselves.

[aznjayhunter]

11) JCNET Space: Individual profiles. This page would allow us to upload a few pictures, and write information about ourselves. We would also be able to add other JCNET members as friends. Think "Facebook" or "Myspace" only JCNET-type.
a) This could be done as our own individual pages on the webpage
b) "Feelings" type forum where you can have a thread of journal entries and people can read and respond.

^i think this is a really really good idea. the only thing is, is it gonna take a lot of work to set it up? or space? but its a marvelous idea nonetheless.

[petricia]

^i think this (the personal space thingy) is a really really good idea. the only thing is, is it gonna take a lot of work to set it up? or space? but its a marvelous idea nonetheless.

That's what I was wondering too. Is it going to take up a lot of virtual space and hence increasing the administration cost? For some people, it may not be necessarily or utilized. I know for sure that I will be one. I don't even blog that much these days... :shy:

Welcoming Committee / Mentor Program - I totally agree with this programme. I don't know how many newbies will take a look at the PMs sent; or bother to approach us but at least we've tried.

English subbing / Translations & Album / book / drama / movie reviews
I love these ideas. However another issue is how many people will be committed to this. I mean the translations at times just take up a lot of time. I'll volunteer for these but I really wonder how does other members think about contributing a significant amount of time to it.

[kahel]

about the english subbing team and translation, as most of you might have not known, we've created a subbing team here at JCNET for the drama goong and we've managed to release subs earlier than most sites. It's really just a matter of dedication and delegation. It was surprising that a lot of members wanted to sub despite the huge time and effort to do with it.

I do like the reviews, I am keen on other people's opinions about a certain album, book, movie as we know spending money is no joke nowadays, getting someone to review it makes it more interesting and it gives you a general idea on what it's all about before dling or buying it. With the smart and dedicated members we have here, hopefully there'll be budding reviewers out there. ^^

[jayx8318x]

Here are my thoughts on the ones I find most interesting

JCNET Space
This won't be hard to implement as there is a vBulletin addon that does just that. I ran across it before and thought it was pretty cool. But like petricia said not everyone would utilize it, which in essence really isn't a BAD thing. I mean less space used right? I still have to gel on this a bit more and see if it's really worth it (time effort wise)


(1) JCNET Development Team & (2) Welcoming Committee / Mentor Program

Definitely yes. "Development" sounds so serious (yes I know I used that term too), more like "Social Committee" or "Party Planning" or something fun. We can think of a better name later.

Since alot of people are interested in these 2 groups, maybe it's time to round up some volunteers? One caveat though. I know everything seems exciting now that we're planning this, and people are eager to JUMP on any opportunity to participate in this and that. But basically I don't want anyone to spread themselves too thin. Or use this as an opportunity to get their name on SOMETHING.

First thing, you need 2 people to lead the 2 groups. From that point on you can start asking for volunteers and establish some guidelines on who can volunteer, what they need to do, etc.

English subbing / Translations
Since macdawn will be the SuperMod in charge of translation related forums, she will be the one to address all these issues too. I think it's a good idea though.

[macdawn]

Since macdawn will be the SuperMod in charge of translation related forums, she will be the one to address all these issues too. I think it's a good idea though.
Yap, I think Jay-related news/article translations would still play a pretty importanrt part of the JCN translation sub forum. But we'll have to work out how far else do we want to do in terms of translation. We can be doing Jay related, other specific artistes, like Lee-hom :rolleyes: or JJ, or do we do every article people want translated? Also, sub for video clips, and other stuff that needs translation.

We have to keep in mind that our people here are doing these out of their free time, and translation, among all others, takes up the most time and effort. And even though we appreciate all effort by members, I intend to maintain the standard of translations we have attained these years.

Since there is quite a lot of interest on the translation forum, I will put up more about it here later, when I worked out more of the details.

-MacDawn

[tomato_0]

i really like the ideas of mentors and stuff because i remember when i first joined i was absolutely clueless and all

also the idea about how you should make it into a myspaces is actually pretty cool and i would use it ^^

[judes]

alright, started up two new threads:
Welcome Committee (http://www.jay-chou.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19956)
Development Committee (http://www.jay-chou.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19953)

so that SOMETHING will happen.
i feel so lame signing myself up as a volunteer but it looks so ugly empty so i figure i'll jump in.

and people, keep talking about the other activities & promotions in this thread!!! give more of your ideas on how to promote activity, promote jcnet, and anything you can think of.

[stitchphil]

There are a lot of ideas and suggestions here, and this is what I think on some of them.

1) Welcoming Committee

I'm all up for the Welcoming committee and getting these users as a different colour. From on start, when new members sign up to this site, make it clear to them in the email sent to them to activate their account on who the members of the Welcoming Committee are and how to identify them. And possibly include it in the forum rules. I wouldn't mind helping in this area.

Like what petricia, we do not know as yet how this will be used by the newbies, but at least we tried in the sense that we've made the avenue avaliable to them.

2) English subbing / Translating team

I agree with what macdawn has said about maintaining a certain level of standard in our translations. I can contribute in this team as well, but like many other translators in the site, I also do the translations whenever I'm free and I think it should be kept that way.

I love the idea of sub / translations for video clips as we do have members requesting for translations in that area from time to time.

And yes kahel-jie I know of the existance of a Goong subbing team. And I think it goes to show that there are members who are willing to commit themselves for the benefit of others. So yes, I think we can come up with something in this ascpect. :happy:

Edit: judes, I just saw your post, and no worries, I'll volunteer to help out in the Welcoming Committee in anyway I can. Cheers.

[DragonPrince]

The Newbie thingy actually allows some new members to sign in, but no one say hi to them. Thats kinda sad. I want to make new friends. I want to volunteer to say 'hi'!

For the games, we can have a thread, suggesting what kind of games people want. And oh, the prizes, what they want to have. The more threads we open for more ideas, the more we (don't have to brainstorm that much) have.

I know sometimes things like that will go haywired, but if we have more people to control the situation, its no big problem handling it.

[judes]

alright. updated the links to each of the different sections that we can work on. contests have been redirected to the spotlight forums. translation discussion has been set up as well.

if anybody feels like taking charge of leading another discussion on any of these other topics, just write a thread and put it up.

i'm thinking that theme weeks, layout competitions, probably will go under the jcnet development team, so if you're interested in those, sign up in that thread.

[pamujung]

9) Peer Leaders: JCNET Peer Leaders would be a group that works with the Relationships/Advice Forum who would give good advice on just about any subject and provide help and mentoring for members who need it. They would also extend their "services" via AIM/MSN/e-mail/PM to privately mentor members who really need someone to talk to. (written by twilighthush)
a) screening process required for leaders, participants as well? I'm not sure someone want to do this thing :hmm: is it necessary anyway ? and from what I know, the real people who give the other advices on whatever problem get the pay.

[yukiko]

maybe the peer leader can be associated with the mentoring/welcoming comittee. i think the job description between peer leader and welcoming comiting have resemblance

[wanie_jay]

i lurve the JC net space idea, but, it sounds like My space to me, i know that the concept is the same, but, wish to have a diao-er name...