Maybe it's just hubski traffic in general. I enjoy posting these (even though I should get better at doing it every day...) and I usually get one or two shares, but I am surprised I haven't seen other people using the tag or commenting very often.
What do you guys think?
I'm not surprised other people don't use the tag often - it's generally something one has to seek out and actively decide to share with others. They pop up on my feed once in a while, but they're the kind of content you read and think, "Huh, cool," and then just move on to something else. Sometimes there just isn't much discussion about it to be had.
I can see what you're saying, but I'm still surprised most people don't share it or even comment on the events being discussed. Maybe I'm the only one who finds the events worth talking about; perhaps I should select better events. A couple of the posts have garnered lots of discussion: I suppose those two were hot-button issues, and they were almost a year ago.
Yeah, it's ine if those things that is hit or miss. Perhaps a "this week in history" would be a more interesting post... You could tailor the headline, for example: Tolkien is born, Sputnick and FDR's Four Freedoms That would be neat.
I should try that. That is a lot more work than my morning coffee reading being linked here. Maybe I'm lazy?
I actually love #tih but haven't caught it on my news feed for a while now. Big well-known days sometimes, but its the lesser known events that really make it interesting imo. How do you usually go about finding your daily history? I might help you out and start posting.
That's good to hear! Make sure you're using #TodayInHistory and not #TIH: I was advised to abandon the latter because it wasn't descriptive enough. I have tons of sites. Most major news outlets have a 'Today in History' or 'This Day in History' subsection, and there are sites dedicated specifically to daily history. I usually boil it down to a wikipedia article and post that. Here's a brief list: - http://www.todayinliterature.com/ - http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_anniversaries - http://www.on-this-day.com/ - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/today-in-history/index.html?SITE=AP - http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory - http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/today-history-36352392 And some subreddits, if you're a dirty redditor: /r/TodayInHistory, /r/100YearsAgo, /r/200YearsAgo, and lots more on the sidebars of those subs. I usually just snag the first thing that makes me go 'Huh, interesting' and post the wikipedia article about it. If the wikipedia article isn't great, I post the reporting source.
Just stumbled upon this as well: https://100yearsagotoday.wordpress.com/
Using https://hubski.com/global (global link, top right) is helpful for finding new tags. And glad you found #TodayInHistory! Welcome aboard!