Encouraging engagement

[Andy Millne]

Perhaps we should start another photo appeal and ask people to list any specific places or people of interest.

[Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)]

11 minutes ago, Andy Millne said:

Perhaps we should start another photo appeal and ask people to list any specific places or people of interest.

Worth a try but I think it will always be difficult to get the Facebook members to join, and take part, as they can still browse all the Gallery images without joining. What if the Gallery was members only but there was a topic listing all the albums in the gallery?

[Andy Millne]

Not a bad idea. We can make the categories and albums public but the images member only but I'm all for keeping things open generally. Getting people to sign up doesn't seem to be an issue as there's a constant stream of members it's the engagement that is sometimes tricky. The advantage of Facebook is it's general social aim but it's also the big disadvantage in that pretty much everything posted there is ultimately doomed to get lost.

We're working on allowing people to post before registering so that posting and signing up are part of the same process. Hopefully that will help.