BARNRAISING #13: Holiday Cookies! and How To Barnraising: Holiday Cookie How Tos!
—a general Christmas Cookie Barnraising, which contains 65 tasks, OPEN
TO ANYONE!
Prizes will go out to the three users who build the most pages: $M35
for 1st place; $M20 for 2nd place; $M10 for 3rd place!!!
—a "How To" Barnraising, which contains 35 tasks, ONLY OPEN TO THE
"HOW TO" TEAM!
Prizes will go out to the three users who build the most pages: $M35
for 1st place; $M20 for 2nd place; $M10 for 3rd place!!!
This particular Barnraising is unique, because it features only
cookies—and each cookie will have three pages:
a page about the cookie
a page about recipes for the cookie
and a How To to Make the Cookie page
All three of these pages should be linked together as "Related Mahalo
Pages." This means that you will have two related pages to link to
right from the start!
To participate, just claim tasks labeled "BARNRAISING #13: Christmas
Cookies" under the general Open Tasks tab on Mahalo Tasks:
http://www.mahalo.com/tasks/
Or, if you're on the "How To" team, claim tasks labeled "Holiday
Cookie Barnraising" in the Open How To Tasks
Here are some good pages to refer to, while building your pages:
How Mahalo Tasks Works
How to Build a Mahalo Page
How to Build a How To Page
Remember, you'll become the manager of all the pages you build—which
means you'll make 50% (in Mahalo dollars) of all the AdSense revenue
that comes to your page! So make your pages super informative. (To
learn more, go to the Mahalo Page Management Guide.)
I'll be the Food & Drink Vertical manager, and will be happy to answer any questions you have about either Barnraising.
Good luck!! :)
Susan
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One additional point, @lon said pages with vertical mangers will pay 40% to the page manager not 50%.
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Whereas the how to page will provide a recipe, the recipe page provides information ABOUT recipes-- it doesn't include a recipe in the guide note. It discusses what you need to know about recipes for the cookie, some basic facts (major ingredients, cooking method,etc) and a section on common recipe variations. The recipes themselves are in the links on the page. The links should be curated-- with good pages pinned to the top and unhelpful ones deleted. Each link should have an abstract, which can help give the user information-- and helps you get more text on the page.
I hope this makes it clearer!
The are still About pages and Recipe pages to claim.
I've had few approved.. I'm not sure the other two pages are done but Soft Sugar Cookies and Double Chocolate Chip Cookies as the example of how the pages work together.
Good luck to everyone who participates!
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M$http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html
In a nutshell, a "formula" - the bare list of ingredients and the assembly procedure - is not copyright-able, but "signifigant literary expression" that might be a part of it is. And regardless of this, any sufficiently entrenched company with a legal budget may make noises if it's obvious someone used "their" recipie.
Now, in baking, you can't simply change recipe around and have it work unless you're experienced enough to know what you're doing, so you'll have to find other ways to put it "in your own words".
So, that's some food for thought. I may jump on some of these because I love cooking and baking but I've always been hesitant to do cooking how-tos because the recipes I use most, from places like Cook's Illustrated someone spent days or weeks in a test kitchen getting a recipe just right and I would feel guilty lifting it straight from them, copyright or no.
Anyone want to respond with their thoughts on finding and working with "public domain" recipes?
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The "About" and "Recipe" pages don't include recipes in the text, so there's no issue with those pages. The recipes in how tos should not be "lifted directly from a single site", but incorporate the best aspects of several recipes from different sites-- the same way all how tos are written.
It is a good idea to put your own or your family's recipes in the how-tos. Internet recipes are not always reliable too. But if you want to tweak online recipes, basic knowledge is a must to make the recipe in the how to section works. (e.g you must know the difference between flour and rice flour). I've got a funny experience when I was at high school. I exchanged flour with rice flour because I ran out of flour and the result was hilarious: a giant cookies instead of a cake.
I have recipe review at my blog where I try new recipe and give review about them.
Right, lidyax: it takes knowledge that not everyone has. Baking recipes are especially tricky to mess with since small changes can make them fail. It also takes skill and practice to look at a recipe and figure out without making it whether it's likely to fail as well.
For people who want to learn this there are good resources. Cook's Illustrated magazine and it's companion TV show America's Test Kitchen (PBS, Saturday mornings, check your local listings) are both excelent; they are very science minded, go through a lot of testing and do very detailed write-ups of the process. Alton Brown and Shirley Corriher's books are good sources as well. And just as important is a lot of practice.
I hadn't thought about 3 different types like that. Super!
I was just thinking earlier today how great it would be if we had some how to barnraisings and regular barnraisings going at the same time that complimented each other well... and then you have this all ready to go!
It's like you read my mind but improved it. =D
my 2 cents
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M$Anyways, when I do, hope you'll give me your feedback, how it's (page) made. By the way, Congrats, I had seen the list of the November payout, you're great.
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The task you did on Almond Cookie Recipes included some great information. I'm looking forward to watching you build out the page by curating links, adding abstracts, and organizing the link sections.
Thanks a lot. I have to say it is exciting, hope to do some more, and I need to learn a lot more on how to build my page.
Two of the four pages you've done so far are on the first page of Google already- and one is at the top of page 2! Way to go, Nina!
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