RE: On Bringing New Audiences | Saturday 20 September 2025
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Very, very nice! I actually read this a couple days ago and didn't have time to respond. The real world can keep me busier than I like at times. Congratulations on the impeding retirement, that's quite an accomplishment!
Waterman makes great products, I own a couple myself although I don't use them much anymore. Like most people my handwriting has skills have gone downhill thanks to keyboarding and voice recognition. But you are correct, it makes you slow down and think more clearly when you write things out. I often find keyboarding that my fingers get ahead of the brain... Must be dementia setting in!
Those tree projects are admirable and I hope it helps attract more people for content. There are a lot of us here for the crypto side, but it would be nice to have some new creators with new content! It's always a challenge to onboard new folks, starting here is very hard because you don't earn much at the start. If I can help out in any way feel free to ask!
It's more about attracting consumers - people who enjoy content but don't necessarily want to do more than comment (or just read). They could invest, maybe the price of a paperback book once a month, and earn through consuming/curating. Most of us don't write for external audience, we're only talking to each other.
That would involve changing writing styles to be more non specific which is very doable. We do tend to write toward a Hive specific audience, I do agree. The content would have to fit into those three categories, which are broad enough to gain an audience. The trick will be getting to that external audience, that sounds like a fun challenge!
The trick my be getting enough creators focusing out side of Hive, as some posts may not earn as well with the run of the mill Hive community. I could contribute with lifestyle medicine, I've just found when I've done more medical related posts they are pretty much ignored. Which is why I haven't gone back to those in some time!
Yeah, I guess more non Hive-specific 😍
The arty ones are for me anyway, if anyone reads them that would be a bonus 😂
But the over60health I think there might be an audience for and I can see myself going back to being a softsoap outreach worker as my friend called me years ago.
But it's all an experiment, so we'll see.
I'm going to have to have a read of your old posts now!
Thank you for the support, appreciated!
I did scroll back in your profile looking for medical posts but it must have been a long time ago! What sorts of things were you writing about?
I tried a couple of subject, but not on a technical medical side, more personal. I could definitely write up some things about subjects that would interest older readers. The sad part is I'm one of them now too... I like your idea, and I think sharing some material that's easily understandable to an outside audience is not only a good idea, but a great one. I'll be glad to help out and see how I do. I'm more established now in Hive so I may get more support this time around with a change in focus on some posts!
Cool. I'm working on the tagging architecture so that it should end up a useful, searchable repository. I'm thinking I might look at using the curation tool as a search tool on the blog, because you can have more than one variable. It's a while since I followed that up, so I need to check the latest state of play.
Keep me updated, I'll start brainstorming some topics and writing them down!
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