After visiting Solve the Issues, I searched around to see how much content was on the site. I was disappointed to see there was not much. The purpose of the site is basically the creators wanted to involve the general public in a discussion about current issues and
problems. The creators post questions relating to current issues and have comment box available for anyone to write their input, opinions, and solutions. I understand that the creators of this site want to form an online community, and I am not sure they chose the right tool. For a discussion forum, maybe an online group or networking site would work better than just a regular website.
There are only seven
questions for people to respond to on this site and of these questions only three
have likes and/or comments. It looks as if the site
hasn’t had visitors since the beginning of August, this is when comments were posted. Questions that were posted during the middle/end of August have no responses in the comments section. Along with the comments section, the site also has Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter buttons to connect to people. These are all good ideas to reach a bigger audience, however I am not sure about the Pinterest button, is the audience on pinterest going to be interested in these types of questions?
I checked them out on Twitter and saw that they are only following 25 people. I am not well informed about Twitter, but I have the general idea that if someone wants more followers they (1) need to follow a good amount of other accounts and (2) tweet informative interesting things. The Solve twitter only had 30-some tweets. Also, I noticed that they stopped
tweeting in the beginning of September.
To me, it does not look like the creators of this site
tried very hard to reach many people and create an online community. I think they have a good idea to start with, I like that they
want anyone and everyone to give their opinions, get involved, and try to create some solutions to our current problems. I am just not sure they went about it the right way.
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