I'm currently enrolled in a class about Hive at my university, and this week we have been assigned to assess another post on Hive. Most of the content I post on here is related to either recipes, travel, or photography, so I wanted to review a post that combined those as much as possible.
I recently found @trangbaby 's post about a coffee shop she visited for the first time, and it was almost the perfect combination of my interests! Today I'll be reviewing her post and specifically examining what I think she did well.
Here's the link to the original post: @trangbaby/cong-coffee-the-old-spirit
She began her post by telling about her week and why she found herself at the shop. This is one of my favorite parts of posting - I just love how personal posts become! She did a great job of keeping her introduction brief and engaging.
She then went on to tell the story of Vietnamese coffee culture and this shop super well. I'm not at all familiar with the place she went, but she painted a very cohesive picture for me.
She added a ton of beautiful photos of all the little details, too. This coffee shop is clearly unlike most of the ones I'm used to. Instead of being trendy, this place tells the history of its city, and she did a great job of capturing that for us in her photos.
She also gave us some insight into coffee flavors and variations where she's from. I now know more about flavors and tastes of my favorite drink in different parts of the world - how cool! I think one of the most important parts of cross-cultural posts is to give the reader more of an understanding of such a different place. I've never been to Vietnam, but I understand this little sliver of their culture because of how well she introduced it to me!
She wrapped up her post with a great call to action - if you're ever in the area, be sure to check this shop out. She even made me want to travel all the way to Vietnam to check it out.
She also posted in an appropriate community and has some standards graphics at the end of her post pointing the reader to her other ones. I really like how well both of these practices brands her entire page, and I can tell engagement is quite high throughout her entire feed.
All in all, she did a great job of keeping all of her content straightforward and exciting. She combined a lot of different topics into her post, and she did it so well! I'm excited to use some of the strategies she did on my posts in the future.