Our first member challenge.
Each member try and personally invite at least one new person to the community.
But let's make this a targeted invitation. Not just Commodore users or fans, but people that are doing, or wanting to do, the kind of things this community was made for. People that will both benefit from and contribute to collaborative projects that will move the hobby forward by solving existing roadblocks to progress. Whether those roadblocks are technical or a matter of lack of information or similar information based solutions.
This would at least have to be someone with some casual interest in vintage computers and specifically Commodore machines - and I have to admit that I don't know many people like that in the G+ realm. Although there might be someone I know with both Commodore 8-bit experience and she's also very well versed with community management and promotion - she's the co-founder (together with me and a few other people) of that science & astronomy community I mentioned earlier and I'll ask her if she wants to join.
ReplyDeleteThey definitely don't have to already be on Google Plus. In fact I had people currently active on other communities but not here in mind.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about different groups of people to recruit...
ReplyDelete1) People who have Commodore hardware, know how to use it and are looking to help others or just seek inspiration or ideas.
2) People who still have a Commodore computer, but haven't used it for a while and are looking for (competent!) help and information to get it going again.
3) People who don't have the hardware anymore, but are interested to recreate it with the help of emulation or new used hardware.
Maybe I've missed something in this approach, but this is something to think about.