Throwback Thursday - Week One

Good Morning, Prosers, and welcome to our very first Throwback Thursday Blog series. Each week we will share with you all of the highlights from the past week on Prose, and behind the scenes snippets too.

The idea for this blog came from a direct message from @another_proser, who suggested we highlight some of the best comments from your posts and share them with you all. The thought behind this was to help the people who struggle with leaving comments and feedback, by providing glowing examples. We feel that receiving comments and crucial feedback really helps us to fine-tune our craft, along with them being nice to read. We would love to see everyone commenting more, and that’s us included. The more comments the better!

If you have ever sent us a direct message or an email with feedback, you can be assured we always share this feedback at team meetings, or through the communication system we use, and we discuss the feedback thoroughly. Sometimes the idea communicated is a great one, but with our future goals in mind, it does not fit the bigger Prose picture, however, some ideas fit with our goals and aspirations for, and we then flesh out the idea to bring a fuller initiative that fits our brand.

This is what happened with @another_prosers idea. We discussed it as a team, and wondered how we could broaden this to bring you guys a weekly feature blog that isn’t repetitive, is informative, and above all, fun to read.

From that feedback came the idea that we would bring you a round up, a throwback if you will, of the weeks’ activity and deliver it to you guys in the form of a post right here.

What we would like to ask of you, our Prosers, is a tag. If you receive awesome comments, that you feel should be highlighted as a fine example of feedback, please tag us. We will share them with the community, and tag the author of the comment. (You can all thank Remmy, for the superb idea!)

This past week (and a little bit extra) has seen some great steps forward for us as a company. We have launched our community portal, which is our way of being able to share greater transparency with users, and also to be able to get some of you to play a bigger role in community leadership. (More on that in the coming weeks.)

Within this Portal, we have also shared our brand-spanking-new Prose Charter, which is a post that outlines our promises to you. If you haven’t read it already, go and check it out!

Yesterday we set up eight new Portals for you all to enjoy:

Music and Rap

Dreams

Health

Crime

Haiku

Tanka

Comedy

History

Fill them up with your words at your leisure.

If you have any suggestions for a Portal that you would like to see, contact us via email, or direct message, and we will see what we can do!

As some of you are aware, we have team members in the US and the UK, and this week, Paul, our blog-writing, social-media-loving, book-sniffing, colleague, has been working remotely from sunnier-than-Britain, Spain. Which, makes us extremely envious as it has been so cold! But, Paul has been writing lots of blog pieces for us all to enjoy, so we will let him off this time!

This past week saw another $100 won and another hundred bucks offered for the Prose Challenge of the Week. We know we’ve said this before, but the quality of Prose that you guys are ever-sharing is getting better and better, and we are STOKED. Not only that, but interaction is at an all time high too!

@IsabellaM1125 released her new poetry collection “White Lies in Blue Ink” recently, so please join us in congratulating Isabella on this achievement! If you have an achievement you’d like to share, email or send us a direct message, we want to celebrate with, and support you!

Lastly, but by no means leastly, we would like to welcome @paintingskies to the partner program. Sam has been a valued member of the Prose community, with words that astound us beyond belief, therefore, it’s with great pleasure, that now she’s 18, we can accept her partner application and congratulate her on this achievement.

That’s all for this week, fellow readers and writers.

Stay tuned for more Prose shenanigans next week!

- The Prose Team

P.S We have just launched a new challenge where you can win $25 for giving us feedback. Just head over to https://theprose.com/challenge/2620.