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== Funding ==
 
== Funding ==

Revision as of 00:18, 14 August 2009

This page is about how to help Dreamwidth grow and thrive, without volunteering.

Your journal

  • Customize your journal's style, even if it's nothing more than customizing your colors. Look at a place like ColourLovers for inspiration if needed. You can also find something you like in [info]dreamwidthlayouts or [info]mintyapple.
  • Fill out your profile's bio.
  • Fill out your profile's interests.
  • Make a post to your journal.
  • Respond to a comment made in your journal.
  • Know your journal's capabilities! Read the FAQs.

Your circle

  • Read your reading page.
  • Comment on a post on your reading page.
  • Respond to someone's comment on a post on your reading page.
  • Find someone interesting and subscribe to them.
  • Answer someone's technical question if you know the answer, or direct them to Support if you don't.
  • Recommend some content on DW you think would be interesting to someone in your circle.

Outreach

  • Give out an invite to someone who asks.
  • Offer an invite to a friend.
  • Give out an invite on [info]dw_codesharing.
  • Give out an invite on Twitter.
  • Recommend content on DW that you think might be interesting to someone not on Dreamwidth.

Communities

Participating

  • Find a community around a topic of your interest, and join it and subscribe to it.
  • Make a post to a community you are a member of.
  • Comment on a post made to a community you are a member of.
  • Watch [info]dw_community_promo for new communities you might like.

Creating

  • Create a community that you think fills a need or interest.
  • Make an appropriate icon for your community.
  • Customize your community's style. You can just fiddle with the colors or find something you like in [info]dreamwidthlayouts or [info]mintyapple.
  • Fill out your community's bio.
  • Fill out your community's interests.
  • Fill out your commmunity's description.
  • Post about your community on [info]dw_community_promo.

Feedback

Funding

  • Buy a paid account for yourself.
  • Buy a paid account for someone in your circle.
  • Sponsor a random user.

  • Post a poll.
  • Read your network page.
  • Make a comment to a post on your network page. (Might want to say where you came from!)
  • Make a custom mood theme for your journal.
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