[Davis Democrats Community List] More about DDC original social media content.

[G Richard Yamagata]

Greetings Everyone,

I forgot to mention an important part of the DDC original content on 
Bluesky, X/Twitter and on Facebook.

Before I start on that, I want to report on our followers.  On Bluesky 
with all of the help of our significant followers, we blew past 38,400 
on Saturday!  We at this moment have 38,457 Followers.  On X/Twitter we 
have 6,888 Followers.  The big topic on social media is the insanity 
with the Lake Ontario renaming by Trump.  Canada said they were going to 
retaliate by renaming the Canadian Geese to Donald Ducks. Trump at 1AM 
EST in the morning on Saturday could not sleep and created a video that 
was entitled Donald Ducks Defend Lake America!  It had ranks of Goose 
Stepping Donald Ducks sporting his blonde toupees carrying AR rifles and 
firing them in the air to the music of Hawaii Five-O.  He posted it on 
Truth Social. Mapquest said that it would not change the name of Lake 
Ontario, but Google Maps has.  So there is a cry going out for all Blue 
people to boycott and un-install Google Maps.  This is where we are at...

The reason for this e-mail is to tell you about Dr Frank Maurer of Quail 
Ridge Wilderness Conservancy.  He writes prose poetry about his life 
experiences and topics that interest him.  His web site of poems and 
thoughts can be found at www.quailridgelt.org/poems.htm 
<https://quailridgelt.org/poems.htm> He currently has 889 poems at the 
site and adds another 20+ per month.

To attract followers, you need to create interesting and captivating 
posts.  Dr Frank Maurer has aided me by writing new poems and making his 
vast library of poems available to me.  We started out with a simple 
post with Marjorie Taylor Greene.  People on social media were 
commenting that she looked like the specimen in the Neanderthal exhibit 
at the German Museum of Natural History, so I ran Marjorie's picture 
with the Neanderthal model in the exhibit.  I post the poems with 
illustrations or photos on Facebook, Bluesky and X/Twitter.  On Facebook 
I have 6000 friends and followers because I was working with a podcast 
music program in the Adirondack Mountains.  The post garnered 290 views 
and so posting poems became a regular thing.

Then everything changed with the ICE murder of Renee Good.  I posted Dr 
Maurer's poem about the Demise of Mother-Poet and Facebook took Dr 
Maurer's poem down.  I tried to find out why and Facebook told me that 
they took the poem down because they were afraid for my life.  I told 
Facebook that I would take all responsibility for whatever happened to 
me and asked them to open up the post for people to see.  I went in and 
saw that the poem had struck a chord with my audience of country-western 
music fans.  They hated the poem and sentiment was running 5 to 1 that 
it was a justified shoot and that Renee Good had tried to run the 
officer down.  The views were 26,000 then 30,000 and then 52,000 views 
with 1600 emoji reactions and 2400 comments.  We had a hit on our 
hands.  The poem was equally successful on Bluesky and X/Twitter.  So, 
we thought that this was like lightening, the odds of this happening 
again were slim to none.

Alex Pretti was killed and a poem about him garnered over 9000 views.  
So we were chugging along and suddenly, again, Facebook took Dr Maurer's 
poem down about the Pink Back Pack campaign by the World Cup Iranian 
Soccer Team. The soccer team would bring in 168 pink back packs at each 
game they played, holding them up to bring attention to the 168 girls 
who were killed by a misled US missile that hit the girls school in 
Iran.  I once again told Facebook I would take full responsibility for 
whatever come what may and we were at 126,000 views, then 158,000 views 
with 9800 emoji reactions, 1000 shares, 1100 reposting of the poem on 
Facebook pages. Lightening had struck twice.  Eventually we reached 
168,000 views.  The popularity of this poem was significant on Bluesky 
and X/Twitter.  Whenever I logged into Bluesky, I would see the poem 
reposted by another account.  We were in the stream of consciousness on 
Bluesky.

So, lightening had struck twice and I had become jaded as Dr Maurer's 
poems were getting 10,000 views per poem post.  We even figured out what 
was the right time of the night to post the poems to reach the largest 
audience.  Our next big hit was The Ubiquitous Tick.  Dr Maurer wrote 
about dealing with Ticks while hiking in the outdoors, but I ran the 
poem with a picture of a tick with a Trump face.  We eventually received 
78,000 views with 4600 emoji reactions, 300 comments and 884 shares on 
other Facebook pages.  I posted the poem on Nextdoor and it was removed 
because it was deemed too political.  But, on Bluesky and X/Twitter it 
was quite popular.

So, we are now in a cold spell in August where the poems are getting 200 
to 300 views on Facebook, which before the Renee Good poem, we were 
extremely happy about receiving. Surprising on Nextdoor, Dr Maurer's 
non-political poems are getting over 2000 views each in August.  I post 
over there that you can purchase Dr Maurer's books of Poems and Thoughts 
at the Avid Reader Book Store on Second Street in Davis.  There are now 
16 volumes of Poem and Thoughts.

If you want to see other 10,000 view poems, you can search for Frank 
Maurer on Bluesky or X/Twitter or you can log into my Facebook page at 
https://www.facebook.com/koi.yamagata.7 and scroll through the posts.  
You can view and find other original material posts of videos, some 
provided by Luba Schmid and music videos from other sources.  You can 
see the newest Dr Frank Maurer poem that should reach 10,000 views, a 
poem about our dictators comment on if 250 days at sea is too long for 
sailors.  His cold. unfeeling reply, "Not nearly long enough."

My thanks to all that help the DDC social media in its quest for fresh 
new material to post so people will want to follow us and see our 
posts.  I greatly appreciate the help.  Of course any DDC member can 
help by logging on Facebook, Bluesky or X/Twitter and viewing the DDC 
posts and hitting the like/emoji button and reposting the post or 
commenting.  Every little bit helps the algorithm.

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G Richard Yamagata  PhD
CEO/President VME Inc.http://www.vme.net/
http://vme.net/bcards/bio.html
Phone: 530-VIV-VMEI or 530-848-8634

G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Advisory Board,
Communications Director on the Board of the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc,
Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Directors - Davis Progressive Business Exchange.

For public service to the Progressive Business Exchange of Davis,
Recipient of the 2015 Service Award.

For public service to the citizens of Yolo County,
Recipient of the 2013 Yolo County Concilio Board of Directors Award

For public service to the Democratic Party of Yolo County,
Recipient of the 2007 Weir-Willamson Award

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