My guess is, but I could be wrong, EA forum content is often just difficult to share with a broader audience as it’s usually not the target audience? And even when it’s ideas worth sharing with a broader audience, it may still be filled with EA jargon /​ way of speaking that’s difficult to follow for a lot of people. I am saying this assuming most people’s followers aren’t EAs but friends, colleagues and family. Even within EA, people are focused on different cause areas and many may not priorize reading stuff outside their cause area. I am not saying all of this is bad, I haven’t thought that through, but it does make sense to me. It’s similar to academic papers in a way, you generally wouldn’t share those on your social media platforms. But you do send them to people you think could be interested, just like how in EA I feel like posts are shared in messages with each other all the time.
I do think encouraging to share and add a picture can help and is a good idea!
Nice — I like the way you described this, and I broadly agree. It’s possible that it’s more effective for the Forum Team to be doing a lot of the work to share on external sites (like via our Twitter account) so that others can contribute by lower-effort actions like retweeting, liking, and commenting (as opposed to us trying to get individual readers to share content more).
My guess is, but I could be wrong, EA forum content is often just difficult to share with a broader audience as it’s usually not the target audience? And even when it’s ideas worth sharing with a broader audience, it may still be filled with EA jargon /​ way of speaking that’s difficult to follow for a lot of people. I am saying this assuming most people’s followers aren’t EAs but friends, colleagues and family. Even within EA, people are focused on different cause areas and many may not priorize reading stuff outside their cause area. I am not saying all of this is bad, I haven’t thought that through, but it does make sense to me. It’s similar to academic papers in a way, you generally wouldn’t share those on your social media platforms. But you do send them to people you think could be interested, just like how in EA I feel like posts are shared in messages with each other all the time.
I do think encouraging to share and add a picture can help and is a good idea!
Nice — I like the way you described this, and I broadly agree. It’s possible that it’s more effective for the Forum Team to be doing a lot of the work to share on external sites (like via our Twitter account) so that others can contribute by lower-effort actions like retweeting, liking, and commenting (as opposed to us trying to get individual readers to share content more).