Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Social Media Tips to Increase WLM Participation

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On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 8:24 PM Mohammad Hekmat  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are only 5 days into WLM 2019 and so far it's been amazing! More than
> 28000 photos already! Kudos to all local organizers!
>
> The international team has been promoting the contest on its social media 
> accounts
> (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). We do our best to reach out to as many
> people as possible,but in many cases, due to language barrier, it's much
> more effective to do promotion in the local language. We've noticed
> increased activity on social media by national competitions and we
> certainly hope this momentum carries over until the end of the contest.
>
> Here are some tips to help you promote your campaign on social media:
>
>1. Link all your social media to each other so when you post on one,
>it automatically shows up on the other ones. Linking Facebook and Instagram
>accounts is pretty straightforward and you can do it from either platform.
>Instagram stories can be shared on Facebook stories as well. If you'd like
>to share your FB and IG posts on Twitter you can use IFTTT
>service. It has some limitations (e.g., for posts
>with multiple images) but overall it's quite useful.
>2. Make use of WLM stats page
>. It's a wonderful
>tool to keep track of your local contest. You can see the total number of
>uploads, number of users, and the daily breakdown. It also shows where you
>stand in comparison to other national campaigns.
>3. Stay active throughout the month of September. In addition to
>making posts make sure to like relevant posts and encourage those who are
>potential participants by commenting under their posts/photos.
>4. Use Facebook and Instagram stories to keep your audience engaged.
>If you have a large follower base, consider running a live event (e.g.,
>Instagram Live) for your audience to go live and ask questions.
>5. It's hard to constantly generate content. There are some easy ways
>that will help you make a post without too much work. The best way is to
>share someone else's story or post. One easy trick is again the stats.
>Everyday the international team shares the stats in a story. For example,
>today we posted "25882 photos so far and so far and counting, Ukraine 4156,
>Italy 3244 ..." This is a good way of keeping the excitement alive.
>6. Be proactive! If you see a profile on social media with monument
>photos invite them to share their photos through WLM. This is perhaps one
>of the most effective ways. Typically, I leave a comment like this: "Great
>pics of cultural heritage. Please consider sharing your photos on Wikipedia
>through Wiki Loves Monuments photography competition. It runs through
>Sep. 30 with the goal of visual documentation of monuments on
>Wikipedia." This encourages people to join and puts all the keywords
>(monument, Wikipedia ...) in a short message.
>7. It's all about word of mouth so ask your followers/friends to be
>your ambassadors and encourage others to join. Previous years' participants
>are typically excellent candidates to help with promotion.
>8. If you have access to people with large accounts ask them to tell
>their followers about WLM. This, if done correctly, can help a lot. When
>Wikipedia account on Instagram started following us and told about us to
>their followers we immediately got many new followers.
>9. Make sure to update your information on this page:
>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki
>/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019/Social_Media
>
> 
>  so
>we keep you in mind when promoting WLM on our social media
>
> please use
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019/Social_Media


>
>1. Consider switching to a business profile on Instagram. It allows
>you to look at stats and performance of each post and the overall audience
>of your account. It's free and contrary to what the name suggests won't
>make you look like a business. You can select the category to be: Community
>Organization
>2. If there is a specific monument that you want to have a photo of,
>you can easily find people who have photos of that monument on social
>media. Let's say you want photos of Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani in
>Tanzania. If you search #KilwaKisiwani on Instagram you will find 280
>photos with this tag. Some of them look good for Wikipedia. You can then
>just leave a comment or send a message to the photographer and ask them to
>submit the photo through WLM. This works particularly well with countries
>that have a short list of monuments or the newcomers to WLM who don't have
>a large follower base.
>
> If we have missed you 

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Social Media Tips to Increase WLM Participation

[Mohammad Hekmat]

Hi all,

We are only 5 days into WLM 2019 and so far it's been amazing! More than
28000 photos already! Kudos to all local organizers!

The international team has been promoting the contest on its social
media accounts
(Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). We do our best to reach out to as many
people as possible,but in many cases, due to language barrier, it's much
more effective to do promotion in the local language. We've noticed
increased activity on social media by national competitions and we
certainly hope this momentum carries over until the end of the contest.

Here are some tips to help you promote your campaign on social media:

   1. Link all your social media to each other so when you post on one, it
   automatically shows up on the other ones. Linking Facebook and Instagram
   accounts is pretty straightforward and you can do it from either platform.
   Instagram stories can be shared on Facebook stories as well. If you'd like
   to share your FB and IG posts on Twitter you can use IFTTT
   service. It has some limitations (e.g., for posts
   with multiple images) but overall it's quite useful.
   2. Make use of WLM stats page
   . It's a wonderful
   tool to keep track of your local contest. You can see the total number of
   uploads, number of users, and the daily breakdown. It also shows where you
   stand in comparison to other national campaigns.
   3. Stay active throughout the month of September. In addition to making
   posts make sure to like relevant posts and encourage those who are
   potential participants by commenting under their posts/photos.
   4. Use Facebook and Instagram stories to keep your audience engaged. If
   you have a large follower base, consider running a live event (e.g.,
   Instagram Live) for your audience to go live and ask questions.
   5. It's hard to constantly generate content. There are some easy ways
   that will help you make a post without too much work. The best way is to
   share someone else's story or post. One easy trick is again the stats.
   Everyday the international team shares the stats in a story. For example,
   today we posted "25882 photos so far and so far and counting, Ukraine 4156,
   Italy 3244 ..." This is a good way of keeping the excitement alive.
   6. Be proactive! If you see a profile on social media with monument
   photos invite them to share their photos through WLM. This is perhaps one
   of the most effective ways. Typically, I leave a comment like this: "Great
   pics of cultural heritage. Please consider sharing your photos on Wikipedia
   through Wiki Loves Monuments photography competition. It runs through
   Sep. 30 with the goal of visual documentation of monuments on
   Wikipedia." This encourages people to join and puts all the keywords
   (monument, Wikipedia ...) in a short message.
   7. It's all about word of mouth so ask your followers/friends to be your
   ambassadors and encourage others to join. Previous years' participants are
   typically excellent candidates to help with promotion.
   8. If you have access to people with large accounts ask them to tell
   their followers about WLM. This, if done correctly, can help a lot. When
   Wikipedia account on Instagram started following us and told about us to
   their followers we immediately got many new followers.
   9. Make sure to update your information on this page:
   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki
   /Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019/Social_Media
   

so
   we keep you in mind when promoting WLM on our social media
   10. Consider switching to a business profile on Instagram. It allows you
   to look at stats and performance of each post and the overall audience of
   your account. It's free and contrary to what the name suggests won't make
   you look like a business. You can select the category to be: Community
   Organization
   11. If there is a specific monument that you want to have a photo of,
   you can easily find people who have photos of that monument on social
   media. Let's say you want photos of Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania.
   If you search #KilwaKisiwani on Instagram you will find 280 photos with
   this tag. Some of them look good for Wikipedia. You can then just leave a
   comment or send a message to the photographer and ask them to submit the
   photo through WLM. This works particularly well with countries that have a
   short list of monuments or the newcomers to WLM who don't have a large
   follower base.

If we have missed you or you feel you'd want us to mention you more
frequently, please send an email to wikilovesmonuments.in...@gmail.com.

Thanks and good luck,
Mohammad
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[Wiki Loves Monuments] Social Media Tips to Increase WLM Participation (Part 2)

[Mohammad Hekmat]

Hi all,

We are more than halfway through this year's competition. So far we have
had more than 100,000 photos. Kudos to all local organizers for the amazing
job they are doing. As we get close to the end of WLM 2018 submission
period you may want to consider another push on your social media. I
thought I'd add a few more tips to those in my previous email.

   1. Consider switching to a business profile on Instagram. It allows you
   to look at stats and performance of each post and the overall audience of
   your account. It's free and contrary to what the name suggests won't make
   you look like a business. You can select the category to be: Community
   Organization
   2. If you are present on both Facebook and Instagram it would be helpful
   to link them to each other. Given that Facebook owns Instagram, they  have
   made the connection pretty straightforward and you can do it from either
   platform. It makes it easy for your Instagram posts to automatically show
   up on Facebook. Instagram stories can be shared on Facebook stories as
   well. Also if you consider paid promotions, linking the two will give you
   one unified access to ads in both.
   3. If you'd like to share your FB and IG posts on Twitter you can use IFTTT
   service. We use it with the international account,
   therefore, our posts on Instagram automatically show up on Twitter as well.
   It has some limitations (e.g., for posts with multiple images) but overall
   it's quite useful.
   4. If there is a specific monument that you want to have a photo of, you
   can easily find people who have photos of that monument on social media.
   Say you want photos of Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania. If you search
   #KilwaKisiwani on Instagram you will find 280 photos with this tag. Some of
   them look good for Wikipedia. You can then just leave a comment or send a
   message to the photographer and ask them to submit the photo through WLM.
   This works particularly well with countries that have a short list of
   monuments or the newcomers to WLM who don't have a large follower base.
   5. You might have noticed that we posted a promotional clip on our
   social media. I have uploaded the file on Commons
   . If you
   would like to make one in your local language you can access the PowerPoint
   presentation 
   out of which this clip is made. We are working on an Arabic version of the
   clip, which will hopefully become available in a few days. If you need any
   other language or want to change anything for your own competition, feel
   free to modify it in any way you like. Just make sure when you post it you
   credit the music (Music: Royalty-free music by bensound.com) Once you
   are done editing just go to file>Export>Create a Video. It should
   automatically take care of transitions between slides and the music and
   generate an MP4 file that you can post..

On the international account we try to promote local accounts. If we have
missed you or you feel you'd want us to mention you more frequently, please
send an email to wikilovesmonuments.in...@gmail.com.

Thanks,
Mohammad
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Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Social Media Tips to Increase WLM Participation

[Alhen ałħen]

The stats page and WLM maps isn't loading. Can anyone take a look at it,
please?

Alhen

@erlanvegarios
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Coordinator at Wikimedistas de Bolivia


On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM Mohammad Hekmat  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My apologies for the long email but there are important tips that can help
> you with promoting your campaign on social media so please bear with me :)
>
> The international team has been promoting the contest on its social media
> accounts (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). We do our best to reach out to
> as many people as possible,but in many cases, due to language barrier, it's
> much more effective to do promotion in the local language. Here are some
> tips to help you promote your campaign on social media:
>
>1. Make use of WLM stats page 
>by Emilio. It's a wonderful tool to keep track of your local contest. You
>can see the total number of uploads, number of users, and the daily
>breakdown. It also shows where you stand in comparison to other national
>campaigns.
>2. Stay active throughout the month of September. In addition to
>making posts make sure to like relevant posts and encourage those who are
>potential participants by commenting under their posts/photos.
>3. Use Facebook and Instagram stories to keep your audience engaged.
>If you have a large follower base, consider running a live event (e.g.,
>Instagram Live) for your audience to go live and ask questions.
>4. It's hard to constantly generate content. There are some easy ways
>that will help you make a post without too much work. The best way is to
>share someone else's story or post. One easy trick is again the stats.
>Everyday the international team shares the stats in a story. For example,
>today we posted "so far we've got >45000 photos by >3200 uploaders from 53
>countries." This is a good way of keeping the excitement alive.
>5. Be proactive! If you see a profile on social media with monument
>photos invite them to share their photos through WLM. This is perhaps one
>of the most effective ways. Typically, I leave a comment like this: "Great
>pics of cultural heritage. Please consider sharing your photos on Wikipedia
>through Wiki Loves Monuments photography competition. It runs through Sep.
>30 with the goal of visual documentation of monuments on Wikipedia." This
>encourages people to join and puts all the keywords (monument, Wikipedia
>...) in a short message.
>6. It's all about word of mouth so ask your followers/friends to be
>your ambassadors and encourage others to join. Previous years' participants
>are typically excellent candidates to help with promotion.
>7. If you have access to people with large accounts ask them to tell
>their followers about WLM. This, if done correctly, can help a lot. When
>Wikipedia account on Instagram started following us and told about us to
>their followers we immediately got many new followers.
>8. Consider paid promotions on social media. They are cheap and they
>can reach to a very large number of people. But make sure to make it
>targeted. If you need help contact me.
>9. Make sure to update your information on this page:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/Social_Media
>so we keep you in mind when promoting WLM on our social media
>
> Finally I would like to thank all our local organizers. You are all doing
> a great job and it's so exciting to see so many beautiful monument images
> from all over the world. Keep up the good work!
>
> Thanks,
> Mohammad
>
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[Wiki Loves Monuments] Social Media Tips to Increase WLM Participation

[Mohammad Hekmat]

Hi all,

My apologies for the long email but there are important tips that can help
you with promoting your campaign on social media so please bear with me :)

The international team has been promoting the contest on its social media
accounts (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). We do our best to reach out to
as many people as possible,but in many cases, due to language barrier, it's
much more effective to do promotion in the local language. Here are some
tips to help you promote your campaign on social media:

   1. Make use of WLM stats page  by
   Emilio. It's a wonderful tool to keep track of your local contest. You can
   see the total number of uploads, number of users, and the daily breakdown.
   It also shows where you stand in comparison to other national campaigns.
   2. Stay active throughout the month of September. In addition to making
   posts make sure to like relevant posts and encourage those who are
   potential participants by commenting under their posts/photos.
   3. Use Facebook and Instagram stories to keep your audience engaged. If
   you have a large follower base, consider running a live event (e.g.,
   Instagram Live) for your audience to go live and ask questions.
   4. It's hard to constantly generate content. There are some easy ways
   that will help you make a post without too much work. The best way is to
   share someone else's story or post. One easy trick is again the stats.
   Everyday the international team shares the stats in a story. For example,
   today we posted "so far we've got >45000 photos by >3200 uploaders from 53
   countries." This is a good way of keeping the excitement alive.
   5. Be proactive! If you see a profile on social media with monument
   photos invite them to share their photos through WLM. This is perhaps one
   of the most effective ways. Typically, I leave a comment like this: "Great
   pics of cultural heritage. Please consider sharing your photos on Wikipedia
   through Wiki Loves Monuments photography competition. It runs through Sep.
   30 with the goal of visual documentation of monuments on Wikipedia." This
   encourages people to join and puts all the keywords (monument, Wikipedia
   ...) in a short message.
   6. It's all about word of mouth so ask your followers/friends to be your
   ambassadors and encourage others to join. Previous years' participants are
   typically excellent candidates to help with promotion.
   7. If you have access to people with large accounts ask them to tell
   their followers about WLM. This, if done correctly, can help a lot. When
   Wikipedia account on Instagram started following us and told about us to
   their followers we immediately got many new followers.
   8. Consider paid promotions on social media. They are cheap and they can
   reach to a very large number of people. But make sure to make it targeted.
   If you need help contact me.
   9. Make sure to update your information on this page:
   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/Social_Media
   so we keep you in mind when promoting WLM on our social media

Finally I would like to thank all our local organizers. You are all doing a
great job and it's so exciting to see so many beautiful monument images
from all over the world. Keep up the good work!

Thanks,
Mohammad
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