About AMAs
Some of you may have noticed that we've not done AMAs ("Ask me Anything" interviews) for a few weeks. I'd been meaning to discuss why.
Short answer: they're a lot of work and I wasn't seeing a whole lot of upside out of it, for the guest, for the Community, and for myself.
But I wanted to check with others on that. So, questions:
1. Are you interested in AMAs with various platform and site options?
2. Was the existing format working for you?
3. What might make for better outreach and publicity?
4. What alternative formats (say: pre-submitted questions) would be better?
The original idea had emerged from "hey, we're a sizeable bunch", might make a useful audience. Delivery seemed to fall short of that.
In particular, trying to engage between sites and G+ Communities seems to be quite difficult.
Some of you may have noticed that we've not done AMAs ("Ask me Anything" interviews) for a few weeks. I'd been meaning to discuss why.
Short answer: they're a lot of work and I wasn't seeing a whole lot of upside out of it, for the guest, for the Community, and for myself.
But I wanted to check with others on that. So, questions:
1. Are you interested in AMAs with various platform and site options?
2. Was the existing format working for you?
3. What might make for better outreach and publicity?
4. What alternative formats (say: pre-submitted questions) would be better?
The original idea had emerged from "hey, we're a sizeable bunch", might make a useful audience. Delivery seemed to fall short of that.
In particular, trying to engage between sites and G+ Communities seems to be quite difficult.
I followed all of them since they really were helpful! Hope they continue as formerly.
ReplyDeleteI prefer to read an edited text after the event - so I am not your target audience.
ReplyDeleteI think a sort of request for comments approach might be easier for all parties involved.
ReplyDeleteUse a list of basic questions that apply for all platforms in general, and give the audience a week or a few days to ask specific questions in the comments of that topic. Then either compile a separate document from those questions and send it to the platform's spokesperson or team in question, or send them a link to the discussion topic (or both) and have them answer it at their leisure within a week or a few days time.
That way users and AMAers don't need to be online at the same time (as that doesn't quite seem to work with our audience size), and the interviewee doesn't even need to create a G+ profile just to answer questions.
As an added benefit, it makes it easier to reuse questions.