Using Springpad for CT Management

I'm the type of scrapper that love creative teams and have joined the CT of quite a few fantastic designer. I've been looking for a convenient task/to-do program to be able to organize and manage my CT duties easily and effectively. After trying out a few programs, I found that I like Springpad the best.

Here is my workflow/organization:

When I request and download a new kit I will create a new task with the following information.

For the title of the task I will usually put the Designer's Name - Title of Kit - Release Date.
The due date I usually put 1 week after I download and not the release date. There are several reasons for this. First of all, most designers usually request the layout to be completed at least 1 week after the download date. They prefer the layout to be completed before the release date of course, but sometimes they will also finish the kit late so the typically rule is 1 week after the download date. Second of all, there are other duties to be completed after the layout's been completed such as uploading to galleries and enabling which occur after the release date. I don't really want to create separate task for those two different duties with separate due dates. It's just too much work so I basically just create 1 task for each kit. I use the tag system to determine which tasks I've completed and which tasks I still have to complete.

So when I create the new task I will also tag it with the following tags: create layout, upload to galleries, enable, and the name of the designer. Once I've completed a task I will delete the tag.

Here are examples of my tags. When I click on create layout, it will show the 5 layouts that I still have to complete layout for.

After I finish the layout, I will delete the "create layout" tag so when I click on create layout, it won't show up again.

Similarly, after I upload the layout to galleries, I will delete the "upload to galleries" tag; and after I've enabled, I will delete the "Enable" tag.

So the completed duty's task will only have the designer's name left. I will the check the task and mark it as completed. When I click on the designer's tag I will know how many layouts I've created for the designer.














Another feature I like about Springpad is its "attachment" feature. You can attach photo, link, note, video, and even file in the task. I normally attach the link to the new kit's thread in the designer's forum and also attach the photo of the completed layout.

There are tons of other features that I've not really used yet such as its webclipper, which is similar to Pinterest, and also notes for taking notes.

Also, I use android phone and springpad is also available for android phone so it's really convenient for me.

Facebook Page for Scrapbooking Stuff

As my scrapbooking friends and activities increase, I found that posting layouts and promoting kits on my personal page could be a bit not really useful. First of all, to my knowledge, zero of my friends and families scrap. It's really not that popular yet in Indonesia. So even though they think the layouts are beautiful and stuff, they're really not that interested in reading posts about scrapbooking. Secondly it gets a bit confusing mixing up the personal/friend posts with the scrapbooking posts.

Luckily, facebook has improved its group and page and now there are a lot of cool features for my scrapbooking purposes.

How to create a page?

You can create a page by going to the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php.
Simply choose the category that fits your page the best. I chose "Artist, Band or Public Figure" and "Artist". Click next and just follow the step by step guide and fill in some basic information for the page.

Some things especially to take note of is that you can assign your own username to get a shorter facebook page URL: http://www.facebook.com/(Your username)/. The username doesn't have to be the same as your facebook fan page title. To set it up go to "edit page" and choose the left "basic information" tab. If you haven't assigned a username yet you should be able to do so on the third line "username" part.

Here are some features that I love.

Use Facebook As

I love this feature where I can choose to use facebook as my personal page or the fan page. If I choose to use as "Angelclaud's ArtRoom" then my posts will post under that username and will be visible to only fans who "like" my page.

However, keep in mind that when using the fan page, there are some features that are not available such as sharing in groups, messaging friends, etc.

Separate "Likes" Pages

The "like" pages for the personal page and fan page are different. So I can "like" all my favorite scrapbooking and designers pages under "Angelclaud's ArtRoom" and when I click on the facebook home button it will display the news feeds from those pages.

This is the news feed of my fan page which shows only the news of the pages that I've "like" and doesn't show my personal friends and families' news.

How I use the Fan Page for CT Duties

I create a photo album for each of the designers or stores I CT for.

I will then upload the layouts I created to each designer's album. I normally include the following information: title of layout, name of kit and designer, link to the kit. In the album info I also includes the link to the designers' stores.

Share Posts

I will also share the post to related Scrapbooking groups. This could be done only in the personal page mode, so remember to change back to your personal page and not the fan page.

Exclusive Freebies

A great way to invite more people to join the page is of course by hosting challenges and giving out freebies. Depending on your designers, I ask permission from my designers to make freebies (quickpage, wordart, cluster frames, etc.) and using this free facebook applications: http://apps.tradablebits.com/ create an exclusive for fans page.

I find that with the fan page it's much easier to connect with fellow scrapbookers, enjoy their layouts, comments on layouts, or chat regarding scrapbook related matters this way. It's always a great way to promote the designers I CT for. Anyway, hope you find the post useful.

My facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Angelclaud.ArtRoom