One of the ways we promote ourselves is giving physical copies to all the major offices and media center in the school, that way students can look through them when they pass by and the people working those areas can help promote our new issue. We also send out an email to the entire school with an e-link to where we publish our online issue of Inklings on Issuu.com. Previously, we would also post information on our website directing people to where they can read, but that isn't currently something available to us. 

          Since we are a student newspaper we try as much as possible to include student opinions from within our school. As a means of doing this we have opinion segments like "In Their View," "What do you think?," and "Speak Up" to allow students within our school to voice their opinions. This is something I find really helps people get excited about our paper because it is really cool when you find out you've been published in a real paper that others will see and read about.

          As part of student involvement we also often do polls. In one of our most recent issues we had a story about Social Media. For this story I created a poll requesting information like what their top social media platforms were, the kinds of effects they feel social media has on teens, and what in their own lives is affected by social media.

Link to Social Media Poll