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* Respond to a comment made in your journal. | * Respond to a comment made in your journal. | ||
* Know your journal's capabilities! Read the FAQs. | * Know your journal's capabilities! Read the FAQs. | ||
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* Answer someone's technical question if you know the answer, or direct them to Support if you don't. | * 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. | * Recommend some content on DW you think would be interesting to someone in your circle. | ||
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=== Participating === | === Participating === | ||
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* Make a post to a community you are a member of. | * Make a post to a community you are a member of. | ||
* Comment on a post made to a community you are a member of. | * Comment on a post made to a community you are a member of. | ||
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* Buy a paid account for yourself. | * Buy a paid account for yourself. | ||
* Buy a paid account for someone in your circle. | * Buy a paid account for someone in your circle. | ||
| + | * Buy a paid account for a community that you think would be nice to search. | ||
* Sponsor a random user. | * Sponsor a random user. | ||
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* Make a comment to a post on your network page. (Might want to say where you came from!) | * Make a comment to a post on your network page. (Might want to say where you came from!) | ||
* Make a [http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/moodthemes.bml custom mood theme] for your journal. | * Make a [http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/moodthemes.bml custom mood theme] for your journal. | ||
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Revision as of 00:28, 14 August 2009
This page is about how to help Dreamwidth grow and thrive, without volunteering.
Contents
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]](http://wiki.dreamwidth.net/wiki/extensions/LJ/images//dw/user.png)
dreamwidthlayouts or 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.
- Make an icon for yourself.
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.
- Make an icon for someone.
Outreach
- Give out an invite to someone who asks.
- Offer an invite to a friend.
- Give out an invite on 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
- Join and subscribe to an interesting community.
- 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 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 dreamwidthlayouts or mintyapple.
- Fill out your community's bio.
- Fill out your community's interests.
- Fill out your commmunity's description.
- Post about your community on dw_community_promo.
Feedback
- Vote on suggestions in dw_suggestions.
- Make a suggestion to dw_suggestions.
- Send a cool report to dw_coolhunters.
- Comment in dw_news.
Funding
- Buy a paid account for yourself.
- Buy a paid account for someone in your circle.
- Buy a paid account for a community that you think would be nice to search.
- Sponsor a random user.
Paid User
Paid users have other things they can do.
- 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.
