The challenges

So here we are , you now know the ethos of why I started dentinaltubules.com In 4 years we have faced many many challenges , here are I simply list some of our challenges and how it has been a challenge at times. I believe my biggest challenge happened in January this year and continues to remain the challenge - the development of the new site. A little about that in another post. First... The largest challenge for any website is to get a community together and then continue with the momentum to keep them going. The challenge of getting nearly 14000 tubulites signed up , the challenge of getting contributors to write articles, the challenge of getting people to comment .... was not easy. This was especially difficult because the entire website was free. No one paid and no one was paid. Sponsorship just about helped it run. However in the true spirit of education, I wanted to ensure we all kept learning. Hence the challenge of staying up half the night - all night sometimes - emailing, pursuing, pushing contributors to keep contributing. It was not easy and still isn't . However this challenge brought about the true spirit of what the site was about "Share, learn and connect" - and this was the first thing we put in as the strap line for the new site We must all share - so we can all learn together - and through this process we connect . In effect dentinaltubules became educational social media. We are connecting via education. However running this massive platform on a solely sponsor basis was becoming a challenge ... and in addition, the growth of the web and technological advances meant that dentinaltubules.com had to grow...and in January 2013 we launched the "genius" - the new version 2 of dentinaltubules.com So far dentinaltubules version 2 has become the real challenge, it is fun , it is vibrant , and excellent. In the next phase , we talk about the challenges of version 2 and where I see it going....