BV friends,
I asked Swanky Mama of Three (our lovely mod) if she could make a sticky out of the BV outlets thread. She answered me and asked if we realized we had 9 stickies already? Sheesh, she is absolutely right. We don't want to have too many stickies, because people will skip right over them.
Which leads me to this thread...can we talk about streamlining, consolidation and organization of our forum. I want us to review what we have and then what we want. Please make suggestions.
FIRST:
Right now we have 3 Subforums:
A. Shop BV at NAP - which is just a link to NAP. I am not sure how that one got it started or if it is something related to their sponsorship of tPF...any ideas? Vlad? Megs?
B. Color Reference library
...Color threads
C. Style Reference Library
...Style threads
9 stickies
Individual threads
The first thing to address it the amount of stickies.
1.) I believe that the Colors sticky could be moved to the Color reference subforum as an individual thread, like the red, blue, etc are now, but then closed. I know some of the information in that color sticky is now also placed in the individual color reference threads and is a little redundant. But, it is still valuable and I would never want to lose it.
2.) Authentication stickies. Do we truly need a separate BlueFly sticky? Couldn't it be merged into the general authentication thread?
3.)Bottega Veneta Collections and Bottega Veneta in Action stickies. Both of these stickies are for us to publish pictures of our own bags. Is there any reason these should not be merged? Perhaps a new thread titled "Bottega Veneta Collections: Still Life and In Action" could be created and both merged in there?
4.) The other stickies are unrelated and can stand alone.
NEXT:
What we want:
D. BV Shopping reference subforum (the fourth subforum)?
Earlier last month we talked about having a Shopping subforum like Hermes or Balenciaga has. Please take a look at these two forums to see how they are set up. What do you envision would go in this Shopping subforum?
This are the threads that I envision:
1.Authenticate this Bottega Veneta (moved from the sticky area)
2.BV Boutique Reference - Locations and SAs
3.BV Outlets - Current Selection
4.BV on eBay - Good and Bad Experiences
5.List of Reputable Stores and E-tailers Carrying BV
6.BV Special Deals and Finds
7.How to Spot a Fake BV and the Hall of Shame
8.Care and Maintenance of your BV
We could merge some existing threads into some of these above threads such as the Splurge thread in to a Deals and Finds thread. And merge the Woodbury outlet thread into a general Outlets thread.
Please, please, please think about our forum set-up and comment. Thanks!
I asked Swanky Mama of Three (our lovely mod) if she could make a sticky out of the BV outlets thread. She answered me and asked if we realized we had 9 stickies already? Sheesh, she is absolutely right. We don't want to have too many stickies, because people will skip right over them.
Which leads me to this thread...can we talk about streamlining, consolidation and organization of our forum. I want us to review what we have and then what we want. Please make suggestions.
FIRST:
Right now we have 3 Subforums:
A. Shop BV at NAP - which is just a link to NAP. I am not sure how that one got it started or if it is something related to their sponsorship of tPF...any ideas? Vlad? Megs?
B. Color Reference library
...Color threads
C. Style Reference Library
...Style threads
9 stickies
Individual threads
The first thing to address it the amount of stickies.
1.) I believe that the Colors sticky could be moved to the Color reference subforum as an individual thread, like the red, blue, etc are now, but then closed. I know some of the information in that color sticky is now also placed in the individual color reference threads and is a little redundant. But, it is still valuable and I would never want to lose it.
2.) Authentication stickies. Do we truly need a separate BlueFly sticky? Couldn't it be merged into the general authentication thread?
3.)Bottega Veneta Collections and Bottega Veneta in Action stickies. Both of these stickies are for us to publish pictures of our own bags. Is there any reason these should not be merged? Perhaps a new thread titled "Bottega Veneta Collections: Still Life and In Action" could be created and both merged in there?
4.) The other stickies are unrelated and can stand alone.
NEXT:
What we want:
D. BV Shopping reference subforum (the fourth subforum)?
Earlier last month we talked about having a Shopping subforum like Hermes or Balenciaga has. Please take a look at these two forums to see how they are set up. What do you envision would go in this Shopping subforum?
This are the threads that I envision:
1.Authenticate this Bottega Veneta (moved from the sticky area)
2.BV Boutique Reference - Locations and SAs
3.BV Outlets - Current Selection
4.BV on eBay - Good and Bad Experiences
5.List of Reputable Stores and E-tailers Carrying BV
6.BV Special Deals and Finds
7.How to Spot a Fake BV and the Hall of Shame
8.Care and Maintenance of your BV
We could merge some existing threads into some of these above threads such as the Splurge thread in to a Deals and Finds thread. And merge the Woodbury outlet thread into a general Outlets thread.
Please, please, please think about our forum set-up and comment. Thanks!