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anthony
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MyPTSD is at a point nowadays of self-sustainment in relation to continuous contributions, responses to member content and overall discussions. What that simply means, is that forum is doing exactly what its supposed to be doing, which is a fully self-contained, self-supporting community of global members.
We've had some staff changes over the past months, some gone, some new... and to be perfectly honest I think we currently near have the best selection of staff the forum has possibly ever had, as a collective group. We all learn from another, improve ourselves, improve our responses, and try to manage the community in the most harmonious way possible.
We've made changes to legal and rules, simple refinements that are showing positive outcomes with overall member happiness. Happy members means the forum is working within the right balance ratios.
I've been running significant advertising campaigns with Google over the past two months, basically which needed to be done in order to find what works, what doesn't, from a data viewpoint for turning those paid visitors into community members. I've been refining this already on the fly with all the statistical data I get from the forum, and slowly the results are improving. Nothing worse than paying for something where the person just bounces off again. Advertising campaigns are slow work, and there is still work to be done.
Once I have the balance about right, I will then adjust the campaign for this forum to only run a handful of days a month, tuned to the days that provide the best results, along with the specific audience to be captured.
I have started working on the upgrade for this forum which I hope to roll out in a week or two. Like I said in that relevant announcement, some things will go, some new things will appear, some improvements will occur to existing features. Nothing radical, nothing major, primarily bug fixes, refinements and improving things for usability and server performance, which means user performance. The faster a page loads for you on your device, across the broadest spectrum of devices, the happier you are. That's the end game for my work when improving the site.
The next major area that will be worked upon later this year / into next year, is a therapist directory. I will tailor a global press release to all psychiatrists, psychologists, and anyone who provides trauma therapy focused to PTSD and its surrounding issues, allowing them to submit themselves / their practice for a free listing here. This will be categorised by country, state and then city. Again, the listings will be free. This is more a forward thinking strategy for a two fold effect, firstly that members have a directory they can sift through and hopefully find someone in their area / even recommend a listing for their area, and second that when trauma therapist is aware of the site, are freely advertising upon the site within a confined therapist directory, they may be more likely to then refer their clients to the site as an interim between therapy sessions. Which face it, this is exactly what this sites purpose is... a stop gap for support when you have no therapy or are in-between sessions / therapists.
I'm not exactly sure how I will do that area yet... thus it is still in the theoretical planning stages only. Once I have the plan, the construction and methods in place, then a press release will go out globally, leaving the ball in their court as to whether they want free advertising for their practice / self.
Managing the forum overall is a constant effort to streamline the site and remove as much 'noise' as possible from members and guests, and I think we're in the 90% range for achieving that.
I think that is all of it from the forefront of my mind as it stands now. I may have forgotten something... time will tell.
We've had some staff changes over the past months, some gone, some new... and to be perfectly honest I think we currently near have the best selection of staff the forum has possibly ever had, as a collective group. We all learn from another, improve ourselves, improve our responses, and try to manage the community in the most harmonious way possible.
We've made changes to legal and rules, simple refinements that are showing positive outcomes with overall member happiness. Happy members means the forum is working within the right balance ratios.
I've been running significant advertising campaigns with Google over the past two months, basically which needed to be done in order to find what works, what doesn't, from a data viewpoint for turning those paid visitors into community members. I've been refining this already on the fly with all the statistical data I get from the forum, and slowly the results are improving. Nothing worse than paying for something where the person just bounces off again. Advertising campaigns are slow work, and there is still work to be done.
Once I have the balance about right, I will then adjust the campaign for this forum to only run a handful of days a month, tuned to the days that provide the best results, along with the specific audience to be captured.
I have started working on the upgrade for this forum which I hope to roll out in a week or two. Like I said in that relevant announcement, some things will go, some new things will appear, some improvements will occur to existing features. Nothing radical, nothing major, primarily bug fixes, refinements and improving things for usability and server performance, which means user performance. The faster a page loads for you on your device, across the broadest spectrum of devices, the happier you are. That's the end game for my work when improving the site.
The next major area that will be worked upon later this year / into next year, is a therapist directory. I will tailor a global press release to all psychiatrists, psychologists, and anyone who provides trauma therapy focused to PTSD and its surrounding issues, allowing them to submit themselves / their practice for a free listing here. This will be categorised by country, state and then city. Again, the listings will be free. This is more a forward thinking strategy for a two fold effect, firstly that members have a directory they can sift through and hopefully find someone in their area / even recommend a listing for their area, and second that when trauma therapist is aware of the site, are freely advertising upon the site within a confined therapist directory, they may be more likely to then refer their clients to the site as an interim between therapy sessions. Which face it, this is exactly what this sites purpose is... a stop gap for support when you have no therapy or are in-between sessions / therapists.
I'm not exactly sure how I will do that area yet... thus it is still in the theoretical planning stages only. Once I have the plan, the construction and methods in place, then a press release will go out globally, leaving the ball in their court as to whether they want free advertising for their practice / self.
Managing the forum overall is a constant effort to streamline the site and remove as much 'noise' as possible from members and guests, and I think we're in the 90% range for achieving that.
I think that is all of it from the forefront of my mind as it stands now. I may have forgotten something... time will tell.
