6-week series introduction
“We Wanna Go Where Everybody Knows Your Name” 🎵
April's @buzzparty weekend in Hamburg was spectacular, thanks to @tibfox, et al. It gave me the boost I needed to refocus my Hive content ideas and restart my posting habits that were disrupted this past quarter while I shopped for another country to live, one in the UK, much better suited to my creative goals.
I'm giving a lot of thought to designing a sustainable content architecture that will withstand the winds of change. The best way I can explain what it feels like to me when I start to falter in my content creation is that I have “a glitch in my matrix”. My psyche has a default setting wherein I go quiet, stop posting, then slow my curating which inevitably leads to stopping that, too. I go rather numb, replacing the excitement of sharing my creative efforts on Hive with one of the less desirable stages, like “back to square one”, “the momentum wash-out” or perhaps the more familiar, “sh*% outta luck.”
Perhaps you have experienced this, too? The recent Buzz Party helped me notice something wonderful and surprising, just by hanging around Hivians in real time. I found that the longer they’ve been on Hive, the longer they are likely to stay on Hive and be part of its story. Having live convos with them brings you into the Hive story, too. You don't have to wait until you are a big fish!
Similarly, as I’ve been building the #CreativeWorkHr (CWH) community for going on three years, I notice that the more that I am around this nutty creative crew online every day, the less judgmental I become about my performance or lack thereof on Hive. Like a cool cup of water, that feels a helluva lot better than being in the quiet stuck place, sucking my thumb, shaming myself for being a bum. My smart mental health move is to get there, take a shy chance, and listen.
So, I welcome you to this, my introduction of the six-part series dedicated to the Power of Live Hive Community Interactions. I will discuss how rewarding it is to pair real-time human activities into your Hive experience. We are a social network, but we are, oh, so much more than digital pen pals! We are the heart of Hive’s readers, writers and idealists who need our fresh sets of eyes and need us to take our turns, too, trying things on the chain. This grows the body of work that makes up the Hive community content at large.
Together we are all building Hive and we all are making our marks through a myriad of roles. Some of us are just figuring out what’s going on, some are on the analytic side of things, some on the creative, but just about everyone plays in more than one sandbox. What I want to highlight in this series is the varieties of community who here. Some are the live shows of Hive, the inspiring workrooms, the special occasions, the celebrations, the casual Hive Meetups co-hosted with my buddy @steevc, the ongoing Buzz Parties and, the annual Hivefest that strengthen our overall Community both on and off chain.
So why am I making a point of this? Because I believe the secret to moving through where you are now in your Hive journey and where you see yourself going is to find places that you enjoy where the people “get it” and “get you”. But that’s not the only reason...
"You wanna go where people know,
People are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows your name.”
—Lyrics from “Cheers” theme by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo
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Hey, Alessandra!
It was awesome to meet you in Hamburg and to have a nice chat IRL! It is different when we are talking face to face than behind the keyboard, but after every real-life meetup, it becomes easier... Probably because we are expecting the next meetup by imagining Hivians in our heads... 😃
This is a great observation! I can confirm that your assumption is true! The thing is in attracting other people that are like ourselves, and luckily, we have plenty of them on HIVE... I can say that I found a couple of new Hivians in Hamburg (wink-wink, nudge-nudge 😃) that I have added to my "collection"... As that "friend collection" grows, it is harder and harder to "quit" HIVE!!!
I'm happy to hear that you will re-activate your HIVE engagement and spread more posts around! 🙂
You are so right, about picturing our friends with us on our next IRL HIVE adventure.
Let’s get bus seats next to each other on one of our group outings in Split, Croatia 🇭🇷 at hivefe.st 9. So much to chat about!!
Until then, see ya when I see ya at #PYPT. 🥰
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Actually meeting people can be scary to start with, but it gets easier. I was so nervous at my first big 'fest', but people made me very welcome. They really did know my name :)
It was amazing to have you in Hamburg :) My brain can relate to your brain as I also needed the boost of buzzparty to get posting personal content again. Now step by step it becomes natural again. I love how live events can boost our creativity and enthusiasm about something - in this case Hive and content creation. People tend to forget that we need these interactions to grow and get confident in who we are or better who we want to be. Great article and I am looking forward for the next 5!
Thankie for the kind encouragement. We were friends before we ever met IRL.
I hope if you go off on another crazy idea to host @buzzparty Hamburg again, you’ll add me to the team. My German is shite, but I can help with events. 🥰
Thank you for the offer :) I think the chances are high that we can make another one next year buuuut it wouldn't be in Hamburg again. But sure let's team up for it!
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STOPBeing around people that know, understand and encourage you will help you go far and well in life. I see Hive as a family and you know one don't just abandon family, so I've come to stay and together we will make it grow.
I wholeheartedly agree!! 👍🥰