Updated Plexodus Schedule Recommendations
Given today's announcement that the G+ shutdown will happen on April 2, 2019, and not at the end of the month, time is even more critical. I've revisited and revised my planning schedule, already truncated from its initial target five months further out. This is what I come up with.
Communications and information sharing is key. Talk to your Circles and Communities. You should have been doing this long ago. Time to consider long-shot or risky alternatives is long gone. Find something basic and proven that works now.
Back up your data if you plan on keeping it.
Post and collect forwarding addresses and information.
February
* Provide updated status, plans, goals.
* No later than now declare new platform(s) live alpha.
* Publicise new location(s).
* Direct Google+ members to new services.
* Select material for import.
* Perform necessary edits and modifications.
* Import and assess data.
* Provide breadcrumbs, hashtags, and other discovery beacons.
* Update your and community members' contact information.
March
* Provide updated status, plans, goals.
* No later than 1 March declare new platform(s) live beta.
* Publicise new location(s).
* Direct Google+ members to new services.
* Deprecate Google+ services.
* No later than 15 March declare new platform(s) live primary.
* Direct Google+ members to new services.
* Disable comments on G+ posts, disable posts on G+ communities.
* Import and assess data.
* Continue content edits and modifications as needed.
* Update your and community members' contact information.
April
* 2 April: Public Google+ shutdown date.
* Provide updated status, plans, goals.
* Publicise new location(s)
* Directly contact missing members, reach out through members.
* Provide breadcrumbs, hashtags, and other discovery beacons.
* Update your and community members' contact information.
May
* Provide updated status, plans, goals.
* Direct Google+ members to new services.
* Provide breadcrumbs, hashtags, and other discovery beacons.
* Disable updates to Google+ services if possible (e.g., no comments, no posts).
* Directly contact missing members, reach out through members.
* Publicise new location(s).
* Assess content integrity.
* Assess community integrity.
* Address content / community as necessary.
* Rebuild
We, you, have 61 days.
Given today's announcement that the G+ shutdown will happen on April 2, 2019, and not at the end of the month, time is even more critical. I've revisited and revised my planning schedule, already truncated from its initial target five months further out. This is what I come up with.
Communications and information sharing is key. Talk to your Circles and Communities. You should have been doing this long ago. Time to consider long-shot or risky alternatives is long gone. Find something basic and proven that works now.
Back up your data if you plan on keeping it.
Post and collect forwarding addresses and information.
February
* Provide updated status, plans, goals.
* No later than now declare new platform(s) live alpha.
* Publicise new location(s).
* Direct Google+ members to new services.
* Select material for import.
* Perform necessary edits and modifications.
* Import and assess data.
* Provide breadcrumbs, hashtags, and other discovery beacons.
* Update your and community members' contact information.
March
* Provide updated status, plans, goals.
* No later than 1 March declare new platform(s) live beta.
* Publicise new location(s).
* Direct Google+ members to new services.
* Deprecate Google+ services.
* No later than 15 March declare new platform(s) live primary.
* Direct Google+ members to new services.
* Disable comments on G+ posts, disable posts on G+ communities.
* Import and assess data.
* Continue content edits and modifications as needed.
* Update your and community members' contact information.
April
* 2 April: Public Google+ shutdown date.
* Provide updated status, plans, goals.
* Publicise new location(s)
* Directly contact missing members, reach out through members.
* Provide breadcrumbs, hashtags, and other discovery beacons.
* Update your and community members' contact information.
May
* Provide updated status, plans, goals.
* Direct Google+ members to new services.
* Provide breadcrumbs, hashtags, and other discovery beacons.
* Disable updates to Google+ services if possible (e.g., no comments, no posts).
* Directly contact missing members, reach out through members.
* Publicise new location(s).
* Assess content integrity.
* Assess community integrity.
* Address content / community as necessary.
* Rebuild
We, you, have 61 days.
Are you on mewe? I searched and didnt find anything. I have Pluspora going but its a bit cloistered.
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ReplyDeleteChristof Harper judging by Edward Morbius trip report and general stance towards MeWe, I highly doubt he's on it still. :)
ReplyDeleteChristof Harper If I was ever on MeWe, I definitely wasn't feeling like myself.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I've already done most of this (though I'll be redoing the Takeout part, for reasons many others have mentioned). My most significant-to-me communities are already reforming elsewhere, some of them on multiple sites. Reminding myself daily that it's the people, not the platform, that matter to me.
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