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I brought our projectkin.substack.com community specifically because of the recommendation engine, though it's taken me 60 days since launch to understand and appreciate these subtle details.
@mentions, for example are present in all social media channels and incredibly important (yet missing from comments...<cough-cough>)
What I found ver…
I brought our projectkin.substack.com community specifically because of the recommendation engine, though it's taken me 60 days since launch to understand and appreciate these subtle details.
@mentions, for example are present in all social media channels and incredibly important (yet missing from comments...<cough-cough>)
What I found very helpful in this article and have already started to leverage are the guest-post feature (as distinct from cross-posting.) In fact, based on recent feedback, I plan to double-down and build out a special "Members' Corner" of my Substack just for guest posts, complimenting that with an event to talk about how and why it works for Family History. See my Family History Section of my stack: projectkin.substack.com/s/substack-family-history I think there's great potential for a Family History "topic" to self-select... <hint-hint>.
By the way, I get the difference between cross-posting and guest posts, but found that the Tag/section constraints on cross-posting make it unworkable for me. Here's why: I use sections heavily on my site. The post I want to cross-post isn't configured for those same sections (why would it be) so I can't slot it into my site. (Am I missing something?)
Keep thinking about collaborations, Substack, thank you!
Thanks for the recent support to this comment... a quick update. That was six months ago. I launched the Members’ Corner in February and it's been a hit.
One unexpected benefit is that it sets a tone for engagement between my members. Each member who posts a story as a "guest" goes out of their way to support the posts of others with thoughtful, supportive comments.
It's also helped "Substack-curious" people get into the platform by giving them a way to "publish" articles that doesn't require them to build their own stacks. They send me Word or Gdoc files and images, I edit and publish under their name as my guest.
More at Projectkin.org/members-corner and my terms at Projectkin.org/join-mc