We’re always looking for ways to add value to your Membership experience, not only with the video we produce, but with the relationships and discussions we facilitate among Members here at BillWhittle.com.
Today, we unveil a new Bill Whittle Forums feature for Members-only. It’s a blank slate that we expect our Members will help to shape in the coming days. Please use the Suggest New Forums forum as ideas occur.
We’ve also consolidated some items in the top menu, so that the new Connect button has submenus for our Blog, Recent Comments, Forums, Member Directory, and your own content creation page.
In case you missed it, last week we opened the site up to make it more friendly to soon-to-be Members, so you can send them here, instead of just YouTube, to see our videos. We’ve also added social media sharing links under each post.
We have more new features to come in the very near future.
Please let us know as you have questions, either here in the comment section, by email, or via the Submit Bug/Idea link under FAQ in the menu above.
4 replies on “Connect More with New Bill Whittle Member Forums Feature”
this is an excellent addition to the site! It’s been clear ever since TSL had a running live comments feed that members were bursting at the seams to be in better contact with other members. Now new members can introduce themselves and be welcomed, members can talk about their own lives, their work, their challenges, and any number of other things, and they don’t have to go through the blog post creation process to do so. I hope this forum helps “bw.com” thrive!
How is the use of forums intended to differ from the member blog? Isn’t this what you got rid of on the last version of the site due to low participation?
Yes, RG, we did try it before and there have been persistent requests for it since then, mostly from people who didn’t even notice it the first time around. We’ll continue to experiment with ways to connect this community. Comment sections are specific to videos or posts. Blog items tend to be news-cycle reliant. Forums allow for broader issue exploration, as well as more personal interaction, unmoored from the daily news. Like everything else here, it’s value is completely Member-dependent. Thanks for the questions.
Wait. The last iteration had forums? I did not know this. Dayum.