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I've been following the Meta discussions that have been taking place for quite a while about the creation of our community blog. And recently Dynamic posted here asking for more contributors to the blog. I had no idea the blog was up and running and that there'd already been several good entries posted.

If I can't find the Blog, what chance does someone have of finding it who isn't familiar with the site or even know that discussions have taken place?

I think it would be a good idea to have our community blog be made visible somewhere on the main site. More visibility would drive more interest and probably make requests for more contributors a thing of the past.

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  • the blog link on the header should be pointing to our blog ibstead of the SE blog, and our blog posts are shown in the community bulletin when posted. On mobile now can't verify everything works as expected...
    – yannis Mod
    Commented Jul 12, 2012 at 19:20
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    @YannisRizos I have no [blog] link at the top of the main page
    – Rachel
    Commented Jul 12, 2012 at 19:37
  • @YannisRizos That puny link? It blends in with the page :P.
    – Dynamic
    Commented Jul 12, 2012 at 19:41
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    @rachel ah, it was moved to the footer recently. even more out of the way I guess
    – yannis Mod
    Commented Jul 12, 2012 at 19:49
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    @YannisRizos Wow, I never look at the footer
    – Rachel
    Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 1:25
  • @Rachel You should, lots of cool stuff in the footer ;) click "contact us" for example (it's new)
    – yannis Mod
    Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 5:40
  • @YannisRizos Can we [feature] this?
    – Dynamic
    Commented Jul 13, 2012 at 19:39
  • I didn't even realize there was new stuff on the blog until I saw this meta post...
    – Tacroy
    Commented Aug 1, 2012 at 17:47

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Something us regular users can do would be to make an ad for the blog in the Community Promotion Ads meta post, and vote it up a few times so it shows up on occasion in the advertisement box on the right side of the screen.

Thanks to Morons, we now have an ad for the blog.

Screenshot of ad

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  • That's a great idea!
    – yannis Mod
    Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 18:04
  • You brought this up before in chat if I recall correctly. I thought it was a good idea, but I never actually got around to doing anything (sorry about that ;-). @YannisRizos Are we allowed to create new ads now, or do we have to wait until we start doing the 2013 ads?
    – Dynamic
    Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 20:57
  • @YannisRizos HA! ME! AND PHOTOSHOP! That's like giving a knife to a blind, elderly man who points a lot!
    – Dynamic
    Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 21:01
  • @Dynamic Yes, I did bring it up in chat before however I figured it would get more visibility in a meta post and would be more likely to get done :)
    – Rachel
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 11:21
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    I made a Basic Ad... (My Creative Skill are very Limited) meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/2635/…
    – Morons
    Commented Aug 13, 2012 at 20:54
  • @Morons Looks good!
    – Dynamic
    Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 17:15
  • @Morons very nice ad.
    – Jarrod Dixon
    Commented Aug 18, 2012 at 2:43
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As a start, we've increased the duration new blog posts appear in the sidebar's Community Bulletin from 3 to 7 days.

This number is open to experimentation, but we would like to avoid keeping items in the Bulletin for too long.

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  • Can we put a link to the blog in the header or footer? I was looking to read the blog, but nothing has been posted in the last 7 days, so I had to dig through chat and meta to find a link. Surely there's a more accessible way to promote the blog? How about replacing "Winter Bash" next to the global inbox with "Programmers Blog" one Winter Bash is over?
    – jmort253
    Commented Dec 23, 2012 at 19:39
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    @jmort253 there is a link to the community blog in the footer on the main site.
    – Rebecca Chernoff Mod
    Commented Dec 24, 2012 at 18:53
  • Is this a feature that can be altered by moderators of the community, or is this a network wide, dev only feature?
    – James Mertz
    Commented Jun 13, 2013 at 15:09
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How about a split feed from the Community Bulletin on the upper right of the page? So it would be a line or two from the blog and a line or two from Meta. MetaP.SE is fairly low-volume anyway, so devoting some of the real-estate to the blog seems like a good use.

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  • We have a feed from the blog in the Community Bulletin already. Is that what you mean?
    – Dynamic
    Commented Jul 15, 2012 at 23:40
  • If the blog already has a feed in the community bulletin, then I guess my comment isn't as relevant. I don't recall having seen a link to any topics from there, just meta postings / links.
    – user53019
    Commented Jul 16, 2012 at 11:33
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I think creating a meta post linking to a new article with each posing would be acceptable.

Also there should be a line the FAQ about the blog, maybe under the what if I need more help section.

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  • I'd prefer to keep the meta site for discussions on the main site, and not use it for advertisement :)
    – Rachel
    Commented Aug 9, 2012 at 11:21

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