Bushwalk Australia has grown from our community at Bushwalk.com. Each edition has been and will continue to be published in PDF and ePub to make it easy to read and enjoy the flow of the articles. However, there are a few downsides to this format, including being hard to share single articles with people and sharing on social media. We have found ourselves digging through our back catalogue to find older articles we wanted to read again or share with others. It is a bit clunky.
After trying a few solutions we have gone for a fairly basic blog approach. We have created http://magazine.bushwalk.com/, to help our community dig deeper in the archive. In many ways it is simply another blog, and you can enjoy the articles in any order and share them with your friends.
A key part of the motivation for this is that we have found that each edition is very popular and people are downloading it at an ever increasing rate, but we notice the back catalogue is not been used very much. People want to access the content, but it is just too hard. The new website hopefully solves this problem. One thing we have not solved yet, but hopefully will later this year, is to make a really nice slideshow to showcase the amazing images from each of the photo competitions.
Anyway, check out the website, share some articles with friends you think will be interested and let us know what can be improved.
Happy Walking.Matt
Bushwalk
