promoting hala_madrid on tumblr?

[yeats]

with the upcoming cl final (HALA HALA HALA MADRID), there's bound to be increased interest in chatter among madridistas online. i know there are a ton of people on tumblr who are largely in the same demographics as the members of this community, but who don't know that we exist.

i was thinking of putting together a post on tumblr to encourage madridistas there to come watch the match with us. it would be a combination of a promo advertising the comm and how awesome we are, along with a practical guide for how to set up an lj account/how to use a twitter account to comment here.

with lj's popularity waning, i think it's absolutely essential that we as a community do everything we can to keep this place strong. one of the most crucial aspects is encouraging new members to join us, and i think that the CL final (as well as the upcoming world cup) is a great opportunity to do that.

tumblr is an amazing platform; i use it myself. however, hala_madrid is really irreplaceable as a community, and i don't see any reason why people couldn't be active in both spaces. for instance, i think our spams are far superior to either tumblr's dashboard or twitter during matches -- there's less clutter, more communication among the members, and you don't need to be following each person individually to interact with them.

before i make a tumblr post, though, i wanted to check with you guys to see how you felt about this idea. i don't want to overstep my bounds at all if there's a lot of resistance to the idea. i was also hoping you guys might give me tips on how to phrase the post. how would you pitch joining hala_madrid to people who aren't super familiar with livejournal?

oh, and just a reminder: if you do use tumblr and check it more frequently, you can keep track of what's going on in hala_madrid by following our hala_madrid mirror account. every (public) post made to the comm gets automatically linked there, so it will show up on your dashboard. there's also a twitter mirror, which works the same way.