The beginning of rethinking it.

I had originally intended to make a military family support forum when I purchased IPB. It was a "lot of time and in the end lack of interest" sort of thing that happened so I went ahead and created something else using it.

Here in the future I plan to attempt it once again.

I know one of the first things to do, in a way, is check out your competition. See what would make your site stand out from all the rest.

Now I've been to a few and a lot of them focus on content more then people and current goings on. Now I'm not talking a site like Military.com or GoArmy.com (terrible forum btw) but I'm talking just a place to make a community.

Now my innate problems is that a lot of people, I don't think, frequent forums and those that do want A LOT of activity to start off with. I also see a problem with help content.

As the wife of an Army member I can really only help with those in the Army but my goal is not to help support Army members/family only, my goal is to help anyone in a military family.

So my question is how would you build a more family site with the content that would be needed for a site that might need more but not so bluntly?

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I think the first step would be to find people in a similar situation who could help you out and provide different views on people's questions etc.

Maybe you could have some form of a blog or diary where people can share and comment easily on their experiences etc.