Can anyone think of good places to link EA Hub from now that it’s been revamped? I’m worried that people will forget about it in a few weeks once this post falls off the EA Forum homepage.
One strategy: Brainstorm use cases, then figure out where people are currently going for those use cases, then put links to the EA Hub in those places with an explanation of how EA Hub solves the use case. For example (rot13′d so you can think of your own before being primed by mine), one possible use case is crbcyr zrrgvat sryybj RNf juvyr geniryvat. Fb jr pbhyq qebc n yvax gb gur RN Uho va gur RN Pbhpufhesvat Snprobbx tebhc qrfpevcgvba naq fhttrfg gung crbcyr svaq ybpny tebhcf be fraq crefbany zrffntrf gb ybpny RNf vaivgvat gurz sbe pbssrr juvyr geniryvat. (Nffhzvat gung’f pbafvqrerq na npprcgnoyr hfr bs gur crefbany zrffntr srngher—V qba’g frr jul vg jbhyqa’g or gubhtu.)
I agree that we need some engagement loop/clear use case to keep this going. Could we host the annual survey on the hub? Or base some of the responses on the hub index? That could both lead more people to visit and register on the hub and also reduce the effort to fill the survey. It might also help us collect more accurate information in some aspects, for example with reference to membership numbers.
Could we host the annual survey on the hub? Or base some of the responses on the hub index? That could both lead more people to visit and register on the hub and also reduce the effort to fill the survey
Historically it has flowed the opposite direction—the Survey has been an exceptional way to get people to populate data on the Hub.
Thanks for raising this! We’re very interested in learning about the features you find exceptionally attractive in this sense. We use this to help us keep track of such ideas: https://feedback.eahub.org/. There’s also a roadmap here that represents a few of our best guesses: https://eahub.org/about/.
I think what will get people using the platform is if it offer some useful feature that isn’t available on minimal effort groups (like facebook). For example, once EA platforms is set up I can envision that drawing people in on its own and engaging.
I quite like your idea and i’d even be down for a “open to meeting/hosting” button or something like that. one reservation I would have is that how professional/work oriented the Hub wants to be, and whether reaching out to people for more social reasons might be better left to social platform like facebook.
Congratulations on the launch!
Can anyone think of good places to link EA Hub from now that it’s been revamped? I’m worried that people will forget about it in a few weeks once this post falls off the EA Forum homepage.
One strategy: Brainstorm use cases, then figure out where people are currently going for those use cases, then put links to the EA Hub in those places with an explanation of how EA Hub solves the use case. For example (rot13′d so you can think of your own before being primed by mine), one possible use case is crbcyr zrrgvat sryybj RNf juvyr geniryvat. Fb jr pbhyq qebc n yvax gb gur RN Uho va gur RN Pbhpufhesvat Snprobbx tebhc qrfpevcgvba naq fhttrfg gung crbcyr svaq ybpny tebhcf be fraq crefbany zrffntrf gb ybpny RNf vaivgvat gurz sbe pbssrr juvyr geniryvat. (Nffhzvat gung’f pbafvqrerq na npprcgnoyr hfr bs gur crefbany zrffntr srngher—V qba’g frr jul vg jbhyqa’g or gubhtu.)
I agree that we need some engagement loop/clear use case to keep this going. Could we host the annual survey on the hub? Or base some of the responses on the hub index? That could both lead more people to visit and register on the hub and also reduce the effort to fill the survey. It might also help us collect more accurate information in some aspects, for example with reference to membership numbers.
Historically it has flowed the opposite direction—the Survey has been an exceptional way to get people to populate data on the Hub.
Thanks for raising this! We’re very interested in learning about the features you find exceptionally attractive in this sense. We use this to help us keep track of such ideas: https://feedback.eahub.org/. There’s also a roadmap here that represents a few of our best guesses: https://eahub.org/about/.
I think what will get people using the platform is if it offer some useful feature that isn’t available on minimal effort groups (like facebook). For example, once EA platforms is set up I can envision that drawing people in on its own and engaging.
I quite like your idea and i’d even be down for a “open to meeting/hosting” button or something like that. one reservation I would have is that how professional/work oriented the Hub wants to be, and whether reaching out to people for more social reasons might be better left to social platform like facebook.