Vox Tip: Sharing Vox with the People who Matter to You
With Vox, you can easily make and maintain connections. That's one of the things that we continue to hear people mention as something they love about Vox, and a lot of you are bringing friends and family to Vox for that reason.
Maybe some of you can relate to our friend Suzie who has been posting about her upcoming trip to London. She's never been there before, but she has a couple of friends and an aunt who travel there regularly. As she posts about places she'd like to visit, she gets a lot of tips from fellow Vox members, but she wanted to write a few private posts to get feedback from her aunt and friends about specific itinerary points that she didn't want to share with the world. She knew that if they joined Vox, she could add them to her neighborhood and mark them as friend and/or family to discuss the more personal aspects of her big trip with them.
Once she told them about Vox, one of Suzie's friends immediately signed up but her friend Aaron and her aunt didn't seem very interested. Her aunt finally joined because she saw that Vox is a nice way to keep in touch. That just left Aaron who hadn't joined Vox. He didn't really know what a blog is, but he was fairly sure he didn't want one. Suzie was convinced that he'd enjoy it if he'd just give it a try.
One suggestion that we gave to Suzie is that sending a person an invite through Vox makes the process a little simpler for them. When you invite someone, they just have to click a link in an email to start registration. When they register, they're automatically added to your neighborhood and are given the option to add you to their neighborhood.
Even though anyone can sign up for Vox, inviting someone will also let you add a personal note to tell the person that joining Vox doesn't mean they have to blog (but hopefully they will!) Joining Vox gives them the chance to comment on your blog and if you add them to friends and/or family, they can see any private content that you may want to share. That personal invitation finally worked with Aaron, and once he saw how much fun Suzie was having with her blog, he went from just commenting to blogging his own DVD reviews and photos of travels.
Are you still asking "How can I get my friends and family to join Vox?" Check out Joining Vox in our knowledge base for some ideas.
We bet our fellow Voxers have some great thoughts on introducing Vox to other people, so let's help each other out. How have you gotten your friends and family members to sign up for Vox? Do you have any tips to share with us?
--Vox Help team
Comments
I just switched over the weekend from livejournal to vox.com. I sent an e-mail to all my readers and to my community from livejournal, and I wrote a detailed post explaining why I made the switch. Yet, I strongly suspect that very few of the approx. 50 people I notified will bother with setting up an account merely to have the ability to comment.
For my own amusement, I'm going to call these people "cloggers" - people who would like to comment on what others say, but who aren't interested in maintaining their own space. Not quite lurkers, not quite bloggers - somewhere in between. They need their own account structure that creates less perceived performance anxiety and yet allows them to be an active part of the community, too.
David
www.lakenorman.vox.com