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[trido]

yes, great idea.
it's really impressive vicki, excellent work!!
and you've made the changes so fast!!! thankless, redundant work i know!
i wish i was smart enough to help!! but mabye the club could pay you for your efforts?? would you like that??
i would consider it a totally appropriate expense, what do others think?
so for ideas, i had a couple more...
i know i was joking, but a skimmer forum would be nice, redundant i know,
but scince it's so easy to add whatever we want, and it's no skin off anybody's nose...
and i'll make it good, so hopefully it will draw people in.
oh! oh! and a front page totm (not motm) section, where we display a pic of the totm just like on RC, and others...
there could also be a thread where the monthly winner could post tank details and answer questions.
would be a sweet way for the members to show off and be involved.

also, mabye some kind of announcement on the front page somewhere saying "everyone is welcome,
that membership to psas is not required to join the forum".
that will be better for our sponsors, scince there will be potentially a larger than local draw.
thanks again vicki, im blown by how fast you made all this happen!!!

Great ideas Mark!
I like TOTM
All wlecome
skimmer forum (Our own local touch)
And, if vicki would like a fee for her hours of work updating the website and making a workable forum I'm all for it. We are going to have to pay for certain things as a club, after all.

 

[Vicki]

yes, great idea.

Are you referring to the asking for the submittal of logos?

it's really impressive vicki, excellent work!!
and you've made the changes so fast!!! thankless, redundant work i know!
i wish i was smart enough to help!! but mabye the club could pay you for your efforts?? would you like that??
i would consider it a totally appropriate expense, what do others think?

THANKS! I do spend a lot of my time close to my computers. If this takes off, I may put you all to work helping to moderate and just keep an eye on everything. Hopefully the Captcha will keep most of the 'bad guys' away. Time will tell.

As to getting paid to do this??? NO WAY! I love doing anything for our club! BUT, if everyone wants to take turns maintaining my tanks.......

so for ideas, i had a couple more...
i know i was joking, but a skimmer forum would be nice, redundant i know,
but scince it's so easy to add whatever we want, and it's no skin off anybody's nose...
and i'll make it good, so hopefully it will draw people in.

I just added another forum called "Skimmy's Corner" under the "Ideas for your Tanks" category.

BTW, if anyone has any better suggestions for Category and Forum names, I'm certainly open to suggestions!

oh! oh! and a front page totm (not motm) section, where we display a pic of the totm just like on RC, and others...
there could also be a thread where the monthly winner could post tank details and answer questions.
would be a sweet way for the members to show off and be involved.

I also added a Forum called Tank of the Month in the PSAS Announcements category. Is that where you were thinking? We need to figure out how we're going to determine who gets the TOTM. We can make a new Thread for each month's winner.

also, mabye some kind of announcement on the front page somewhere saying "everyone is welcome,
that membership to psas is not required to join the forum".
that will be better for our sponsors, scince there will be potentially a larger than local draw.

You keep saying "front page". Do you mean on the Website or the Forum or something else? I did just change the website's menu from Forum to PSAS Forum. I did just make some changes to the Sponsors forums which should please them too!


Again, I'm very open to any and all suggestions.

Vicki

 

[Skimmy]

wow vicki!!
my own little skimmer corner... awesome!!!

yes, "great idea" was for logo submittal..i have a couple too
see my new sig on the site.

perfect place for totm thread, now if we can just get a place for a pic on the front page too, with an announcement, it will be perfect!!
dwayne, kris, get a sweet fts, we'll make one of you the first totm!!
you guys could duke it out for who gets it
then next month it'll be a member's tank, like salsaking, dang, jan, or BRA display tank (yes, we could spotlight sponsor display tanks too!! they'd love it!)

and i think totm sould be picked by us every month at end of the month, then we ask if winner will post tank specs in the thread.

and, as far as "everyone welcome, no club membership required to join" announcement, yes, i was talking about front page of forum.

the site really has surpassed my expectations vicki, super special extra thanks go out to you! this is going to be really important for us to expand!
and it looks just beautiful!!
im going to see about getting some national skimmer/equipment sponsors
as well as the locals...
i know Warner Marine will be on board, i can probably get SWC out of canada too, and sunlight supply as well, scince they are in washington. and a few others...i will start contacting folks...

 

[Vicki]

I could add a picture of the Tank of the Month to the Forum Topic in the PSAS Announcements and change it every month when there's a new TOTM. (A picture like what's now on the Sponsor's Forums.) Would that work?

Also, for TOTM, 'someone' needs to design a form for the winner to fill out so we get similar information each month.


As to additional Sponsors....

• We GIVE our Sponsors with store fronts who give the discount to our members FREE Forums and ad rotation.
• We could charge a 'fee' to other Sponsors who want ad rotation and/or Forums. That would bring in annual revenue for PSAS.

I did edit the Home Website Page announcing the Forum and it's availability to everyone. Is that sufficient?

Back to work!
Vicki

 

[krisfal]

wow vicki!!

perfect place for totm thread, now if we can just get a place for a pic on the front page too, with an announcement, it will be perfect!!
dwayne, kris, get a sweet fts, we'll make one of you the first totm!!
you guys could duke it out for who gets it
then next month it'll be a member's tank, like salsaking, dang, jan, or BRA display tank (yes, we could spotlight sponsor display tanks too!! they'd love it!)

I will concede to Duanne, I have an algea issue due to under skimming, so maybe in a couple months my tank will be ready to be showcased. New skimmer is impressive so far, Collection cup almost 1/4 filled overnight, Water looking clearer, also add 50 micron filter pad into my tower just a few minutes ago, and plan on bi-weekly WC to try to recover. Hopefully there will be quick improvement now that I have a skimmer with the capacity for my tank.

 

[krisfal]

• We could charge a 'fee' to other Sponsors who want ad rotation and/or Forums. That would bring in annual revenue for PSAS.

Vicki

I like this idea! I have had people contact me asking how much it cost to be a sponsor, and when I reply we want a discount for our members I do not hear back. So maybe if we had a fee we could hook in these people and bring in revenue. Anybody have any idea what RF charges sponsors?

 

[Skimmy]

I could add a picture of the Tank of the Month to the Forum Topic in the PSAS Announcements and change it every month when there's a new TOTM. (A picture like what's now on the Sponsor's Forums.) Would that work?

Also, for TOTM, 'someone' needs to design a form for the winner to fill out so we get similar information each month.


As to additional Sponsors....

• We GIVE our Sponsors with store fronts who give the discount to our members FREE Forums and ad rotation.
• We could charge a 'fee' to other Sponsors who want ad rotation and/or Forums. That would bring in annual revenue for PSAS.

I did edit the Home Website Page announcing the Forum and it's availability to everyone. Is that sufficient?

Back to work!
Vicki

that would be cool to have small pic for totm like sponsor on thread, although it would be much better if we could just have a medium sized permanent section to the front page of forum like on RC, would that be a pain? if so then bag it, i dont want to burn you out

yeah we could easily have the same pm going out to the totm, with the same q's every month.

and also, in the past we gave sponsors who donated over $100 worth of retail items to the psas bbq raffle free sponsorship for 1 year, which in this case would include a forum for them to announce specials and sales as well as flying their banner for free. we should absolutely keep offering this to national sponsors scince we dont yet have tax exemption to offer them. and it will increase the diversity of items we have to raffle in summer. otherwise we could ask for a small fee, like $10 a month, as our membership grows and sponsors renew annually, we could increase it as we see necessary.
and someone like randy reed who gave us that whole set of foods totaling over $100, he should just get a sponsorship for free, etc...it will only be benificial down the road to be generous now, especially considering the cost to us..

and good deal on announcing on the psas page about the forum, we should do the same here if you guys think were ready...i do, it's f'ing sweet, and good to go!!

 

[trido]

Anybody have any idea what RF charges sponsors?

$30 a month

I like Marks Idea of $100 donation for free forum and banner for a year. I think that until we have a large following that charging a monthly fee may not be worth it in alot of sponsors eyes.
Randy is definately a shoe in for sponsorship already.
$30 a month that RF charges would definately be too much to ask.

Also, since we are going to keep this baby and get it going Ill post some more of my informational links to it.
What does everyone think about posting that sponsors shouldn't post thier own links as "reputable"?

And, Id be honored to be showcased as TOTM. Thanks to all of you for even considering me.

 

[Skimmy]

yep, that's why i think $100 donation or $10 a month is great, were too small to ask for anything else...
and this first year were going to be concentrating on making it a cool, informative website to hang out on, even giving away sponsorships to those companies that will attract interest to our site, next year we'll squeeze it for money . for now, mabye even give paying sponsors this first year for free so that we have a nice list of cool national equipment/livestock sponsors..it makes us look big and professional, and costs us nothing.

 

[Vicki]

I was checking through the logs of my server and keep seeing one consistent error.

After *fiddling* with it for a while, I've discoverd it's a FireFox/Mozilla error. FireFox users can't see the Logos in the Sponsor Forums. They just see a message "No New Posts" instead.

I really don't like FireFox! This has to be a "bug" in the software, but I'll write to their forum and see if there's anything I can do about it.

Kris....you should really use a GOOD browser!

Vicki

 

[Vicki]

that would be cool to have small pic for totm like sponsor on thread, although it would be much better if we could just have a medium sized permanent section to the front page of forum like on RC, would that be a pain? if so then bag it, i dont want to burn you out

I seldom go to RC but just did and didn't see anything about a TOTM?????

 

[Vicki]

and also, in the past we gave sponsors who donated over $100 worth of retail items to the psas bbq raffle free sponsorship for 1 year, which in this case would include a forum for them to announce specials and sales as well as flying their banner for free. we should absolutely keep offering this to national sponsors scince we dont yet have tax exemption to offer them. and it will increase the diversity of items we have to raffle in summer. otherwise we could ask for a small fee, like $10 a month, as our membership grows and sponsors renew annually, we could increase it as we see necessary.
and someone like randy reed who gave us that whole set of foods totaling over $100, he should just get a sponsorship for free, etc...it will only be benificial down the road to be generous now, especially considering the cost to us..

I do have all the Sponsors banners on the Website and did just create a link on the Forum to our Sponsors.

Do you want more?

Vicki

 

[Skimmy]

I seldom go to RC but just did and didn't see anything about a TOTM?????

it's the 31st, look tomorrow morning...

 

[Vicki]

FireFox/Mozilla problem is solved for the time being until I find a better 'fix'.

Vicki

 

[Vicki]

ZERO action overnight....
Besides the BOD members, there are just two others and only one of those has posted.
We need some exposure!

Vicki

 

[Skimmy]

just an fyi...

i asked jon warner if he would be interested in hosting "reef chemistry with jon warner" in return for forum sponsorship...im really hoping he chooses yes! that would be a great addition to the website
i told him all he'd have to do is answer a few questions about chemistry a few times a week for a few minutes, and in return we would fly his banner and provide him with a forum like other sponsors.

i was thinking mabye we could do the same with randy reed...
he could host a "reef foods and nutrition with randy reed" forum, and we would give him free sponsorship. (i know we were thinking of give it to him already).
and i dont know why totm isnt up on RC yet....but im sure it will be in a day or 2.

 

[Skimmy]

ZERO action overnight....
Besides the BOD members, there are just two others and only one of those has posted.
We need some exposure!

Vicki

well, hardly anyone goes to our regular webpage, so im not suprised...
we can ask the sponsors with websites if they would be willing to post a link to our new forum page, i was planning on doing this after we went "public".
did we send out emails to everyone on our email list??
and, we need to announce in the psas forum here on RF too, are we ready for me to make an announcement? and another thing i was thinking was asking chuck if he wants to remove the RF psas forum now that we have ours, and if he'd be willing to link to our new forum under the club list...scince they were interested in us getting our own forum site as well

oh and vicki,
http://www.zeovit.com/
has a similar quarterly "totm" they choose on their front page like RC normally does.

 

[Vicki]

well, hardly anyone goes to our regular webpage, so im not suprised...
we can ask the sponsors with websites if they would be willing to post a link to our new forum page, i was planning on doing this after we went "public".
did we send out emails to everyone on our email list??
and, we need to announce in the psas forum here on RF too, are we ready for me to make an announcement? and another thing i was thinking was asking chuck if he wants to remove the RF psas forum, and if he'd be willing to just link to our new forum under the club list...scince they were interested in us getting out own forum site as well

oh and vicki,
http://www.zeovit.com/
has a similar quarterly "totm" they choose on their front page like RC normally does.

It appears that our only Sponsor that currently links to us in Indoor Reef. It would be GREAT if all of our Sponsor did provide a link to us.

I think we're ready to go Public! I *thought* we did yesterday!

Ghazni has all the email stuff but hasn't gotten it back on the [email protected] site yet. So, NO, we haven't emailed everybody. The EVite needs to go out too and maybe that would be a good place for another public announcement. That way they're not getting two messages in a short time.

I'd leave the Reef Frontiers PSAS Forum here. I don't really want to see it deleted unless that's a decision that Chuck makes on his own. Reef Frontiers has been really good to us and I don't want to see any 'waves'. I even have the Reef Frontiers banner on our Sponsor list as having given support.

I'll check out that website shortly, but still haven't seen anything on Reef Central about TOTM.

Vicki

 

[Skimmy]

cool, we'll just make the announcement of the website on the evite, and, it sounds like were ready to announce it here on RF. i'll go ahead and do so

again, kudos on the splendid work you have done on the site vicki!! it's truely awesome!!!

 

[ghazni]

Ghazni has all the email stuff but hasn't gotten it back on the [email protected] site yet. So, NO, we haven't emailed everybody. The EVite needs to go out too and maybe that would be a good place for another public announcement. That way they're not getting two messages in a short time.
Vicki

I will get it done today for sure.