One way I saw success was through receiving contact from the other side of the country. A woman back east sent me her story about signing and I was able to share that along with a video on my page. That was when I felt like my page might actually be making a difference.
I had some goals set at the beginning of the semester including posting tutorials once a week. I ended up not posting that many tutorials and I definitely think my page suffered from that. I became worried about balancing original content with the many links I wanted to share and never quite reached that balance I had wanted.
I did learn that posts involving personal stories or something about me, myself, were a lot more successful. The last post I did was a video taken of me and my mom. I was signing a little bit and we were showing how my mom had learned a few signs herself. That post received a lot of positive feedback and was viewed way more than the posts prior to it.
In discussing my goals, I did talk to some of the students in the ASL classes here at Dixie, but I did not get any follow through from them in regards to sending content to the page. I thought that would be a big source for my posts, but it turned out to be extremely disappointing. My last goal was to have a contest involving likes in order to win some ASL gear. I planted the seeds by sharing some of this gear and the Etsy pages I planned to order it from on the page. When it received disappointing feedback I decided it would be illogical to continue with the contest idea.
Overall, I'm happy I created this page because I know it broke up the negative news feeds that many of us encounter every day. My page would have been more successful had I stopped second guessing myself and posted more often.
