AskBob® is a Phenomenal Success Story for the Online Aviation Maintenance Community
October 20, 2009, Brisbane, Calif., -- The new AskBob® online community (www.askbob.aero), a unique forum connecting aviation maintenance professionals and the aviation industry, celebrates its one year anniversary this month with phenomenal growth that reached over 46,000 unique page views in September from over 11,000 visitors.
AskBob has strong participation from aviation maintenance experts, industry partners and members. AskBob has a wide variety of members from experienced professionals who actively post information, to members who participate in the discussions, to those who just come in and see what’s going on in the industry. "We appreciate all the members’ contributions and are pleased to offer this free information distribution platform to the community and the industry" said Rich Marino, President at ATP and AskBob. "The combination of the members input with community experts and partners provides a broad source of information."
The sites’ Forums, Employment Board, Polls and Parts Procurement tools are among the top destinations. Besides these feature sites, members have their own blog space, and access to post on the Events Calendar and Photo Gallery. "The weird aircraft section of the Photo Gallery is one of my favorites," said Bob Jones, Managing Editor for AskBob. In addition to all the online users AskBob is featured in the NavigatorV® tech publication software platform from ATP making the AskBob resources a click away on over 14,000 mechanics’ desktops.
"The whole idea behind the site is that there is a wealth of experts out there. Most businesses have a person everyone goes to for answers. We wanted to create an easy communication channel for all the AskBob's, AskMike's and AskSusan's in aircraft maintenance." explained Mr. Marino. “We believe that the AskBob online community provides benefits for not only maintenance professionals, but for the industry as a whole because if its unique ability to connect a large community of maintenance professionals and industry professionals.”
NBAA 2009 will see the launch of the sites newest resource; the Aircraft Maintenance Supplier Directory. The idea for a Supplier Directory came from a discussion in the “Who does it?” and “Who sells it?” Forum topics. The Supplier Directory is a central location for companies to promote their products and services providing one more resource for the maintenance provider.
AskBob is an online aviation maintenance community created by ATP to serve aviation maintenance professionals. The AskBob aviation maintenance community can be found at www.AskBob.aero and can be viewed through ATP’s NavigatorV® software platform. It can also be followed on two Twitter feeds - @AskBob_aero and @AMT_Jobs and on the AskBob Facebook page and multiple LinkedIn groups. "Our expansion into Social Media has been an exciting endeavor and provides an additional way for the aircraft maintenance community to connect." said Bob Jones, Managing Editor for AskBob.