The Sitecore Stack Exchange Site is now in public beta and we need to agree how best to promote the site going forward and how to ensure it gets out of public beta successfully.
There are a number of ways to promote the site which I will list below and hopefully we can get agreement amongst the community on how best to go about this.
There is a great article on this here also: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/a-recipe-to-promote-your-site/
There are a number of blog posts out there already about the Stack Exchange site and these have been useful for getting us to beta in the first place, such as the following:
https://www.akshaysura.com/2016/09/19/how-can-you-help-the-stack-exchange-beta-site-for-sitecore/
http://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2016/10/sitecore-stack-exchange-needs-you/
http://www.flux-digital.com/blog/sitecore-stack-exchange-site-needs-your-help/
Hopefully, blogs can continue to be a source of promotion for the site going forward.
This is Probably the biggest forms of promotion for the Site. Especially Twitter and Linked In. Perhaps there are other Social Media Channels that can utilised further though.
This mailing list by Akshay Sura has been useful in getting the word out in the Community:
https://www.akshaysura.com/sitecore-community-update-mailing-list/
Slack has been a great way of getting people to engage on the Sitecore Stack Exchange site and ask/answer questions there. Especially for maintaining the answer to help others in future instead of them getting lost in a slack Channel.
Whenever attending one of these or even presenting at one; try and see if you can get a 5-10 minute slot near the end - to just present or even just talk about the community effort going on here. Doesn't need to be any long explanation or complicated series of slides - just something simple. For example:
"Hey, for anyone who doesn't know it yet - the community has taken initiative to get a Sitecore Q&A site going. Its url is http://sitecore.stackexchange.com and you'll find lots of useful information in there already. If you run into any Sitecore-related questions in your daily work, this is an excellent resource".
Make sure your colleagues are aware that Sitecore Stack Exchange exists and welcomes Sitecore-related questions, as well as good answers.
This site is still new, so the people you work with are likely to be unaware it exists.
stackoverflow.com is not an appropriate place to promote Sitecore Stack Exchange. It is against the SO rules to do so:
And please do not solicit content or users by posting comment on Stack Overflow; that is not allowed. There is generally no problem with a little crossover between sites...
The consensus is that community.sitecore.net is not the right place to promote Sitecore Stack Exchange.
