Spread Thunderbird Frequently Asked Questions
Welcome to Spread Thunderbird!
We are a community of passionate Thunderbird users and fans from around the World joining together with the common goals of increasing awareness and adoption of Mozilla Thunderbird to those who are not aware that Thunderbird provides the tools necessary to empower them to take full control of their communication needs in a much more secure, efficient, and organized way than their current system provides.
We invite you to join us to participate and contribute to our grassroots marketing efforts that continues the Mozilla tradition of promoting choice and innovation in a welcoming and open environment.
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Affiliates Program
- What is Thunderbird?
- What is the purpose of this site?
- How do I join the community?
- Who runs Spread Thunderbird?
- Who do I contact with feedback about the site?
Mozilla Thunderbird is the free, award winning email client used by more than 10 million individuals, businesses, and organizations Worldwide. It offers unsurpassed security and privacy features helping you to keep your data and personal identity and information safe which is extremely important considering that identity theft is the fastest growing crime on or off line.
While Thunderbird provides many great features such as intelligent junk filters and spam blocking, message tagging and search, easy options to subscribe to newsgroups and RSS feeds, it also allows for installing add-ons including many of your favorites that you use with Firefox including Adblock Plus, FoxyTunes and hundreds of others.
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Get Thunderbird
As a non-profit organization that offers its products for free, the Mozilla Foundation does not have the same luxury of a large operational budget that other commercial software companies do so it relies on contributions from volunteers to develop, promote, and support its products.
Spread Thunderbird was created to provide a venue for Mozilla Thunderbird advocates where they can contribute to brainstorming marketing campaigns and get Thunderbird promotional tools and resources.
Becoming a member of Spread Thunderbird (or STb) is easy. Select the "Create new account" link in the User Login section at the top left of this page or click on "Join STb Now!" below. Shortly after filling out and submitting the User account registration form (just 3 short fields) you will receive an email containing a password granting you immediate access to your new STb account where you can start enjoying all of the benefits of membership. Select My account > Edit in your user control block (top left, visible only when logged in) to change your password and personalize your profile.
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The core team behind STb consists of:
Rafael Ebron
Jamey Boje
Paul Booker
Ken Saunders
Philippe M. Chiasson
Please use the Suggestions and Comments forum to report bugs or provide general feedback about SpreadThunderbird.com.
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Community Participation
How can I participate and contribute to Spread Thunderbird?
In addition to providing you with the opportunity to get involved in official Thunderbird marketing projects established by Mozilla Messaging, Spread Thunderbird offers several different ways for you join in on community initiated promotional campaigns and we encourage you to start your own.
- Forums:
- Blogs:
- Image Galleries:
- Comments:
The Spread Thunderbird forums are our primary means of collaboration on Thunderbird marketing ideas and projects. It is there where we all meet up to brainstorm on the most effective and innovative ways to increase awareness and adoption of Mozilla Thunderbird.
Feel free to add your input to an existing forum topic or start your own.
Blogs are most commonly used for the posting of new and up to date content that is usually specific to a single topic or item. Upon joining Spread Thunderbird you are provided with your own blog that we encourage you to use but please keep the content related to things pertaining to Mozilla Thunderbird and/or Mozilla Messaging or email and communications in general.
Use good judgment when posting and remember that Spread Thunderbird has members of all ages and cultures and inappropriate or offensive content (profanity, pornography, racism, etc) will not be tolerated and are grounds for being banned.
To post to your blog, select Create content (from your user control panel) then Blog entry.
The image galleries contain some really cool Thunderbird graphics submitted by STb community members including promotional buttons and banners, wallpapers, screenshots and more.
You can upload your own Thunderbird artwork by selecting Create content > Image. Please choose an appropriate gallery for the graphic(s) that are you submitting and keep the content related to Thunderbird or Mozilla Messaging.
Also be sure to view Mozilla's Thunderbird Visual Identity Guidelines and recognize that any materials uploaded to this site may be re-posted and spread around the Internet by anyone so providing a friendly Creative Commons license (or other) for any original materials isn't a bad idea.
When you are logged into Spread Thunderbird you can provide feedback and comment on blog posts, forum topics, and gallery images.
Please keep comments friendly, productive, relevant, and follow Spread Thunderbird's content submission guidelines.
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Spreading Thunderbird
What can I do to spread Thunderbird?
One of the easiest ways to spread Thunderbird is to place a Thunderbird download link on your web site or blog, or in your email or profile signature.
If you're a member of Spread Thunderbird then you're automatically enrolled in our affiliates program. We'll provide you with your own unique affiliate download URL for you to use to earn points.
Points allows you to keep track of your Thunderbird referrals and earn bragging rights as a top affiliate.
You will receive one point each time that someone clicks on your Thunderbird download link.
Your point totals are displayed in the right hand column of every page under the Top Affiliates section which is updated daily. Spread Thunderbird members with the most Thunderbird download referrals get listed in the Top 5 Affiliates section (viewable on all pages) and also on the Top Affiliates page.
Cheating is traceable and any member(s) caught abusing the affiliate program may face losing all of their points and being banned from the site.
Visit the Affiliates Home page to grab some Thunderbird promotional graphics and start earning points today.
Also be sure to check out how to add a Thunderbird Affiliate button or signature to Blogger, LiveJournal, MySpace, Typepad, Wordpress, Yahoo! Mail, MSN Mail, and Thunderbird.
Other ways of spreading Thunderbird.
- Grab some cool Thunderbird conversation starters from The Mozilla Store (International store).
- Display Mozilla Thunderbird wallpapers on your monitor
- Post Thunderbird content (reviews and product features, cool add-ons, news stories, etc) on your web site or blog.
- Create and print up Thunderbird flyers (we'll provide some soon) and post them on your school's or community's bulletin board.
- Simply tell a friend or a family member about Thunderbird. Word of mouth is still one of the most effective means of advertising anything especially when it comes from a trusted source.
What ideas do you have for spreading the word about Thunderbird?
We'd love to hear them.
The Spread Thunderbird FAQ page is still being written and will be a comprehensive resource when finished. Please feel free to use the forums for any questions that you may have that are not yet covered on this page.
We're glad to have you join us and we look forward to working with you to promote and advance Mozilla's mission of making the Internet as open and accessible as it can possibly be for all.
STb Team
