From forum to blog or someone over 40 ...
Hello, dear comrades!
This is my first (I hope not the last topic in Habré). A topic is a question by which I can make the right decision for myself. And maybe someone else would benefit from it.
So. I love thoroughness, so a little bit of history ...
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... It all started with the fact that my girlfriend Dasha and I realized my insane dream: we took a car (together) from Moscow all the way to Bergen (west of Norway). Our autotravel came out just mega-rich in impressions and events that happened to us! We did it, yeahhh! Then I started a blog on WordPress and described there in several volumes (work on 50-60 pages of text only) our adventures, richly “spiced up” the description with unusual beauty photos of Scandinavian nature and so on. I got a great mass (by the standards of my humble blog) a lot of enthusiasm reviews, and then I got excited about the idea of banging up a resource — a community of autotourists, where dear like-minded people could find all the information they were interested in on autotravel, post reports and just chat.
I took CMS LiveStreet 0.3 , twisted and turned (as far as I had enough skills and abilities) and put my idea into practice - I created the Autotourists Community .
I began to actively attract visitors, both with the help of search engine promotion, and with the help of the group I created on Vkontakte (which is no secret? I want to monetize the resource in the future). Gradually began to gain some audience. Someone even began to lay out their reports, to which I am extremely happy. Still would!
But here I began to notice that many users of my habra-like resource are often lost in its use; they can’t figure out how to insert a picture or video, then they write the record in drafts instead of publishing it. In short, they sometimes admit blunders that seem ridiculous to us, and a stupor to them. This is understandable: the theme of "autotourism" implies that the majority of visitors are already mature enough. As I can judge, 60-70 percent of my audience is people over 40. So they don’t understand some elementary things for us, active users of everything and everything in the internet, things like this: “tags” (for them it’s ), "Cat", "collective blog", etc., etc.
But if someone doesn’t have a relationship with a resource, then he might think that the problem is in the resource, not in him, and run away and / or not return to it.
It begs immediately: “how about you, boy, are you dealing with help and usability?”. Answer: I have not yet delivered myself in an exclusive design with a “clear” arrangement of buttons, and no sophistication on usability; The help tried, however, to write exhaustively (and, admittedly, he gave his small result).
Here I would like to ask: wasn’t anyone on their projects the task of “transferring” users from already familiar to all (who are older than Pavel Volya) forums for blogs, habra-like software statues? Are there any tips & trics, such as, for example, more than “modest” in their skills, the 57-year-old Internet user to teach, translate and addicted to something unusual for him?
I am glad in advance of informative comments and I ask you not to kick, if something is written not in the local spirit - this is my first post here. Thank.
This is my first (I hope not the last topic in Habré). A topic is a question by which I can make the right decision for myself. And maybe someone else would benefit from it.
So. I love thoroughness, so a little bit of history ...
')
... It all started with the fact that my girlfriend Dasha and I realized my insane dream: we took a car (together) from Moscow all the way to Bergen (west of Norway). Our autotravel came out just mega-rich in impressions and events that happened to us! We did it, yeahhh! Then I started a blog on WordPress and described there in several volumes (work on 50-60 pages of text only) our adventures, richly “spiced up” the description with unusual beauty photos of Scandinavian nature and so on. I got a great mass (by the standards of my humble blog) a lot of enthusiasm reviews, and then I got excited about the idea of banging up a resource — a community of autotourists, where dear like-minded people could find all the information they were interested in on autotravel, post reports and just chat.
I took CMS LiveStreet 0.3 , twisted and turned (as far as I had enough skills and abilities) and put my idea into practice - I created the Autotourists Community .
I began to actively attract visitors, both with the help of search engine promotion, and with the help of the group I created on Vkontakte (which is no secret? I want to monetize the resource in the future). Gradually began to gain some audience. Someone even began to lay out their reports, to which I am extremely happy. Still would!
But here I began to notice that many users of my habra-like resource are often lost in its use; they can’t figure out how to insert a picture or video, then they write the record in drafts instead of publishing it. In short, they sometimes admit blunders that seem ridiculous to us, and a stupor to them. This is understandable: the theme of "autotourism" implies that the majority of visitors are already mature enough. As I can judge, 60-70 percent of my audience is people over 40. So they don’t understand some elementary things for us, active users of everything and everything in the internet, things like this: “tags” (for them it’s ), "Cat", "collective blog", etc., etc.
But if someone doesn’t have a relationship with a resource, then he might think that the problem is in the resource, not in him, and run away and / or not return to it.
It begs immediately: “how about you, boy, are you dealing with help and usability?”. Answer: I have not yet delivered myself in an exclusive design with a “clear” arrangement of buttons, and no sophistication on usability; The help tried, however, to write exhaustively (and, admittedly, he gave his small result).
Here I would like to ask: wasn’t anyone on their projects the task of “transferring” users from already familiar to all (who are older than Pavel Volya) forums for blogs, habra-like software statues? Are there any tips & trics, such as, for example, more than “modest” in their skills, the 57-year-old Internet user to teach, translate and addicted to something unusual for him?
I am glad in advance of informative comments and I ask you not to kick, if something is written not in the local spirit - this is my first post here. Thank.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/69449/
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