Promoterbot:what is Promoterbot
From WissenWanne
Promoterbot is a data collection tool that you can use to promote your plug-ins.
It is maintained by Mark Niemann-Ross as an answer to the frequent question - "How can I get my plug-in listed on xxx page on www.adobe.com?" I found myself frequently spending hours sending developer press releases around to the maintainers of various Adobe pages. In addition, I knew there were some press folks that wanted this information as well.
How it works
- A developer (probably you!) gets an OpenID logon
- Developer logs into promoterbot ( http://developer.niemannross.com/promoterbot ) for the first time
- Developer creates an employee listing (if this is your first time at Promoterbot)
- Developer creates a company listing (if this is a first time for this company) and attaches the new developer/employee listing to the company
- New employee/developer entries require approval by MNR, so that malingers can't maliciously associate themselves with a company that they aren't employed by
- After the approval is finished, and a notice is sent back to the developer, the Developer logs in, and creates plug-in listings. You can also update your company information.
- MNR is notified that there are new plugins, and approves for publication.
- When approved, information about that plug-in is sent out to a wide variety of sources, as well as the promoterbot.rss feed, del.icio.us/promoterbot and an xml feed that is used for demos.
For example
Here is the message that was sent back from promoterbot to a developer...
Thanks for using the PromoterBot! Here is what we did with your information...
- Your plug-in was included in the plug-in guide (distributed at http://blogs.adobe.com/notesfrommnr/plugin_guide )
- Your product information was sent to Adobe Magazine - http://www.adobemagazine.com
- Your product information was sent to Design Tools Monthly - http://www.design-tools.com
- Your product information was sent to CreativePro - http://www.creativepro.com
- Sent request to update the page at http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/acrobat
- Sent request to update the page at http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/acrobat
- Sent request to update the page at http://www.adobe.com/products/plugins/acrobat
- Added to the promoterbot category on del.icio.us ( http://del.icio.us/promoterbot )
- Added to the rss feed at http://www.niemannross.com/developer/promoterbot/promoterbot.rss
- Added to the XML feed at http://www.niemannross.com/developer/promoterbot/promoterbotPlugins.xml
- Sent a notice to the appropriate Adobe Product Managers
Other promotional opportunities that you can take advantage of...
- Add, or update your listing at VersionTracker
- Add, or update your listing at Bedagi
