Project “BigBlueBall Revival”

Last week I wrote a blog post about reviving BigBlueBall. If you read that post, I share my Google Analytics data going back to our peak in 2006, when we routinely had over half a million pageviews a month.

A lot has changed since back then, but I still think there is something to be shared here at BigBlueBall, and I’m committed to carving out four hours a week to see what I can do.

I’m not 100% sure where this is going, but my goal is to see if I can turn that curve back around. When I shared the blog post, it was interesting that I got responses on the blog itself, but even more on LinkedIn and Facebook. One of the recurring questions was “will it still be about instant messaging?”

This much I can say for sure: it won’t be about instant messaging. It’s just not something I’m passionate about, and frankly while there are new-ish IM clients out there (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc.) it’s not worthy of a lot of time and attention. At least, not MY time and attention.

So to start with, I’ve taken the thousands and THOUSANDS of old forum discussions and moved them under a new Archive category. They are still there for a little organic Google juice (whatever that’s worth today), and for nostalgic trips down Memory Lane. But I don’t expect any new activity there.

That leaves the forums with four categories focused on topics where we are all looking to improve:

• Health
• Home
• Learning
• Wealth – Probably going to rename this to Money.

There’s a fifth forum called “Community” (you’re looking at it) for general discussion that doesn’t fit any of the other categories.

Any questions? Any suggestions or feedback? Lemme know!