February 13th (Friday) - MangoLassi Day!
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Chicken and egg, I think. Can't get traffic without content and can't get content without traffic. Why would anyone post here? If you're looking for a place to ask your question you want a place that looks active and inviting with active SME's. Most forum's get a leg up because they leverage a product, Spiceworks, early PowerShell, etc. something ML lacks.
It's going to be a really tough road.
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@Martin9700 said:
Getting Microsoft and MSP's to come visit once is pretty cool, but there's almost no content here for those people. There's ZERO Enterprise level content from a Microsoft basis. Frankly I get a bit of a anti-Microsoft vibe here. How do you plan on getting these people to do more then a single visit, look at a few posts and never come back?
I wonder (honestly wonder) how much people come and read existing content versus only reading the current content (top 20 topics or whatever.) Searching turns up old ones, but I think that people visiting the site will mostly look at current discussions.
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We ARE hoping to get some vendors involved. Two of which, StorageCraft and AetherStore, are Windows only so having them participating would help a lot just because every discussion with them will be Windows centric.
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@Martin9700 said:
Chicken and egg, I think. Can't get traffic without content and can't get content without traffic. Why would anyone post here? If you're looking for a place to ask your question you want a place that looks active and inviting with active SME's. Most forum's get a leg up because they leverage a product, Spiceworks, early PowerShell, etc. something ML lacks.
It's going to be a really tough road.
It is, a tough road indeed. That's a known problem. However that is also a downfall of other communities - stop using the product or don't like the product or the product goes away and the community goes away too. Being neutral makes it SO much harder to attract community members BUT makes (we think) there be a much better chance for continuous, regular growth that just lasts.
But boy is it hard. No question there.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I wonder (honestly wonder) how much people come and read existing content versus only reading the current content (top 20 topics or whatever.) Searching turns up old ones, but I think that people visiting the site will mostly look at current discussions.
Very tough road, agreed. A community like PowerShell.org is not a vendor based platform (they don't sell anything) but centered around a new technology. Of course, when that technology is replaced the need for the community will go away then too. It's also had some powerful personalities behind it that helped establish it.
ML doesn't have that, and by staying agnostic there's no reason a Google search would ever pull anything up. The lack of any content doesn't help (if you have nothing to trigger a successful search... well... you get it). Content is a fickle thing, and sometimes it just drives a reason to visit and it's a one time thing. I get over 600+ visits a day on my blog (which I think is pretty good considering I do very little self promotion) and almost all of it is Google hits on 4 or 5 articles that people are interested in.
So how do you get people to visit in the first place? Content. Even if it's fleeting the hope is that SOME of that traffic might create an account and stick around, until you hit that amazing turnover point. Might want to consider adding a blogging component and letting a few of the community SME's post an article or two to try and drive up hits and maybe begin to build the perception that this is a place to seek answers.
Just thoughts....
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Articles are always welcome. I'm not sure how a blogging component would work, more technically than anything. There is not a blogging engine in the platform so that would require some thought. Articles, though, can easily be posted and then discussions be had on them, that would be great.
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This is a travel day for me. So I won't be able to get on a computer... Which sucks this would have been fun to participate in. Good luck hope everything works as expected.
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@coliver said:
This is a travel day for me. So I won't be able to get on a computer... Which sucks this would have been fun to participate in. Good luck hope everything works as expected.
Oh that really sucks. Maybe you can do some posting from the road? I am actually struggling to have it not be a travel day for me too. I will likely, or hopefully at least, just be arriving in Texas the night before if all goes well.
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That really sucks, @coliver, bad timing
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
This is a travel day for me. So I won't be able to get on a computer... Which sucks this would have been fun to participate in. Good luck hope everything works as expected.
Oh that really sucks. Maybe you can do some posting from the road? I am actually struggling to have it not be a travel day for me too. I will likely, or hopefully at least, just be arriving in Texas the night before if all goes well.
I will try and jump in if I can, I will be on the road for ~10 hours that day with maybe two 5-10 minute stops.
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Ugh, where are you headed?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Ugh, where are you headed?
Back to NY. I'm down in NC for the week installing a new phone server and a new camera system. Which reminds me I need to get in touch with @Minion-Queen.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Ugh, where are you headed?
Back to NY. I'm down in NC for the week installing a new phone server and a new camera system. Which reminds me I need to get in touch with @Minion-Queen.
Here if you need me
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oh you KNOW your boy is going to be here
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Ugh, where are you headed?
Back to NY. I'm down in NC for the week installing a new phone server and a new camera system. Which reminds me I need to get in touch with @Minion-Queen.
Ah, returning to the snow, I see.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Ugh, where are you headed?
Back to NY. I'm down in NC for the week installing a new phone server and a new camera system. Which reminds me I need to get in touch with @Minion-Queen.
Ah, returning to the snow, I see.
Wouldn't have it any other way.
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@PackMatt73 said:
oh you KNOW your boy is going to be here
Awesome. It's looking like we will have a good turn out.
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I will do my best to be participating. Sounds like fun.
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I'll be around as much as I can and work permits.
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I spoke to the NodeBB developers last night and they are totally down with the whole "ML Day" idea and hope to be online with us here too. So maybe we can orchestrate some kind of "meet the devs" kind of thing so that people can ask them questions, talk about features that they want, what direction they would like to see the community take, etc. It will also give them a chance to see the community hopefully under record load so that they can be learning from it as well. We are a very busy single site.
