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How can we get our weekly chats to become popular?
As most of you know we have two weekly chats scheduled each week.
Sundays at 11:00 am eastern Thursdays at 9:00 pm eastern
But few members ever attend these chats and I'm wondering if anyone has any new ideas on how to get them to be more of a success. Years ago we would have at least 10 people in the chat room every Thursday night and these casual chat sessions were a big attraction. What has changed? What can we do to make them more exciting and appealing?
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I would love to join a chat but I am not up at 11 am, and Thursday is date night, and that is inviolate for any reason that does not involve medical care or a police report....
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Actually, Thursday night is usually a good time for me. I was in the chat room about 15 minutes two weeks ago. No one else showed up. Last week I was stuck at work but I am planning to be there this Thursday.
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. . . But few members ever attend these chats and I'm wondering if anyone has any new ideas on how to get them to be more of a success. Years ago we would have at least 10 people in the chat room every Thursday night and these casual chat sessions were a big attraction. What has changed? What can we do to make them more exciting and appealing?
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Have the chats be about certain topics. Like Sunday's chat could be about Healthcare and what we think. Or structured member debates, which means we'd have to find something we disagree on then get one person to speak for each side. A quick brainstormed thread of Chat Topics could fill up the agenda for a month or more.
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I presume those times are Eastern American? Which time zone? How about a quick conversion for those of us not in the US of A? Australia has 3 time zones plus complications with different states starting 'daylight saving' at different times, plus local anomalies in twin towns on the borders.
For instance, at the top of this page it tells me the time is 'Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:27 am', but thanks to our (redundant, pathetic, incompetent - pick your own adjective) state government it's actually 8.27am. Give me a time and I'll be there. I think a set topic or debating point sounds good too. Something to get our teeth into.
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I missed Thursday's cause I was too busy bawling my eyes out watching Disney/Pixar's Up. Seriously, 11 minutes in I was in tears and it just kept happening. I had to watch a different Disney movie to make me feel better from watching a Disney movie. Oh, the irony.
I even had the chat written on my daily to-do list. Sadly, emotional movies got in the way.
I don't know how to make it more popular. If I knew how to make things popular I'd probably be selling them and be very rich. Alas, I am not. And here we are. Sorry. No help from me.
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Have the chats be about certain topics. Like Sunday's chat could be about Healthcare and what we think. Or structured member debates, which means we'd have to find something we disagree on then get one person to speak for each side. A quick brainstormed thread of Chat Topics could fill up the agenda for a month or more.
Explain in detail how to implement your idea please.
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I like the pre determined topic for the chats, it would act as an ice breaker. Of course, the conversation may stray from this topic, but it would give people a jumping off point. The topic is bound to spin off in different directions. I'm thinking about the chat we had with the author, can't remember his name, sorry. The conversation was wild, fast and furious and spun out in so many directions, there was no lack of conversation, and it was a lot of fun.
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When I ask for specifics on how to implement that suggestion what I'm asking for is an idea of you you envision such a system working. Who comes up with the topics? Where are they announced? Who does the announcing? Who hosts the chats? Do we keep chat transcripts?
I am already a bit overwhelmed with my administrative duties on BookTalk.org. The idea of hosting weekly chats is not appealing to me. I cannot afford the time commitment. But I'm open to helping other people host the chats. We could create a forum or banner on top of the forums advertising the subject of the chats. Something. But I cannot handle the added workload personally.
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We start a thread with a brainstormed list of hot topics, then pull from that list each session. Perhaps only do this on the more popular day. Have a person volunteer each week to be the chat leader, to get the discussion rolling. Which day is usually better for chat? I'm almost never around a computer during chat times, so I'm not familiar. Whichever is busier I'll volunteer for this week to see if the idea works.
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pick your own adjective) state government it's actually 8.27am. Give me a time and I'll be there. I think a set topic or debating point sounds good too. Something to get our teeth into.
