BuildingYourCrowd

Building Your Crowd
Jon Davey & Mark Longbottom explore what you need to do to build your crowd Tuesday's 4:45PM UK time
   9 years ago
#buildingyourcrowdBuilding Your CrowdCrowd funding requires two things a crowd & generosity of spirit. We explore how you attract a crowd
Jonathan L Davey
I'm hosting these on minimal promotion because I so busy face to face to make that happen... perhaps we move into special guest zone...
Emily Allen
I think it could be really beneficial to project leaders. I wanted to join today to see what is it all about
Jonathan L Davey
How about we shift the time next week to lunchtime... you co-host with me... we chat to someone who has successfully run a project for 30 mins... 30 mins answer questions from patch leaders/
Emily Allen
Sounds good to me! Perhaps this time is difficult for people with leaving work etc
Emily Allen
There are a few people I would like to invite to join the discussion as I think they could benefit from it
Jonathan L Davey
I guess my head was thinking it brings in folk from USA... but we're only interest UK at this time anyway ;)
John Furrier
the key to crowdchat is having the user log in here then it sends updates out on the hashtag
Jonathan L Davey
Great... let's talk real time Thursday PM?
Emily Allen
Thursday 22nd? What time?
Emily Allen
Simon is up in Birmingham Thursday
Emily Allen
Simon may want to be involved? Shall I speak to him about timings. Friday I am not in the office
Jonathan L Davey
@furrier Mark was saying it kept booting him out... email him and find out... he wants to be a fan ;)
Jonathan L Davey
cool... if we pencil in for 3pm... that should fit with getting stuff done AM
Emily Allen
Ok I will email Simon now and see what he says. He may have left by then but I will definitely be around for 3pm
Crowd Captain
Emily feel free to spread the word around
Jonathan L Davey
Has anyone got any burning questions around building your crowd they'd like to share?
Jerry Overton
i'd like to start organizing virtual meetups. anyone know of best practices to get me started?
Jonathan L Davey
what's the topic jerry?
Jerry Overton
big data and data science
Jonathan L Davey
i know IBM are using crowdchat to engage audiences... and I have suggested to a friend in that space he should try it...
Jonathan L Davey
John F may have a crib sheet for that?
Jerry Overton
or maybe links to old events. i could follow conversations and pick up tips from there.
Jonathan L Davey
It starts small... you invite a couple of friends to talk big data... a few more join in the following week... it grows as you drill down on the detail...
Jonathan L Davey
search the home page of crowdchat for "big data" and I would imagine a ton of stuff will pop up...
Crowd Captain
IBM has been very successful as is CSC using CrowdChat
John Furrier
@JerryAOverton check out the new search feature we pushed on Monday
John Furrier
we added search for all chats
Jonathan L Davey
Even when things don't go quite to plan and you need to find a plan B, that Plan B can be thought through on CrowdChat... great place to hang out for an hour or so ;)
Jonathan L Davey
The event we hosted back in September, were we had 6/7 guest hosts helped drive the traffic... that and we banged the drum about it for 2 weeks before hand...
Emily Allen
Well I have just posted on Birms patch about it, maybe I can do some Tweets/Facebook posts, get the word out
Crowd Captain
What do you think about how to promote the crowd chats? IBM uses images and their contact list to drive more engagement. One is their inner circle of influencers
Crowd Engagement
Driving the audience to the crowdchat url is very important to maximize the engagement
Birmingham Crowdfund
We can use CrowdPatch website, as well as the Twitter and Facebook pages to promote the details of crowd chats
Jonathan L Davey
@CrowdEngagement totally but they have to hear you, be interested, be available & turn up...
Jonathan L Davey
we'll use this to talk to our inner circle next week, see how that flows...
Jonathan L Davey
John F... Mark says the ability to add more than 140 characters is messing with his flow on a mobile... fine if we're all on pcs... thoughts?
Crowd Captain
I will check what is happening on mobile
Jonathan L Davey
Nice one captain... do tweet @marklongbottom_ your findings...
John Furrier
I have no problem on mobile iOS
Jonathan L Davey
Must work perfect then ;)
Jonathan L Davey
Next job... school PTA meeting at 6:30PM to present crowd funding... now schools have a crowd that just wanna chat ;)
Birmingham Crowdfund
We need to start speaking to schools in Birmingham about crowdfunding too!
Jonathan L Davey
I've got just the cat ;)
Jonathan L Davey
Message in from Mark... @wholovesyarbaby love to be they but #crowdchat on a phone is a total #fail sorry... John F what can we do about that... he struggled last week as well...
John Furrier
the mobile version is web responsive and should be working
Jonathan L Davey
Emily you and Crowd Patch are here because of me... John Furrier owns the site... Jerry is looking to the world of big data... Mark has rained off...
Jonathan L Davey
We had 10, said hello, we now have 7... that's how you build a crowd ;)