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RE: What I’ve learned my first week - or so - of Audacious March
@outrayjust - I love the clarity and readiness for the the task at hand. I wish you all the success.
I love the following extracted from you post, I am of the same opinion.
It truly seems to have become a microcosm of the fiat currency world. And the art world. And well...the world world. On virtually every level.
I am also curious as to why you have set the following goal?
- I will follow at least 10 new people per day
Thanks, @rlt47. Following people puts them in my feed. It allows me to keep track of their work, engage, and reward them when they do great work. Right now I’m attempting to create more connection and community. I also need more followers for that...so the obvious choice is to follow people and form those things. I’ve also started unfollowing people who do not seem to click with me.
Hi @outrayjust - thank you for your response.
Yeah, I've just purged my 'following people' too! I was also on a similar strategy to increase this section by a certain quota per day but it created the wrong pressure. Now I'm only going add people when I've developed the correct connection and that may take weeks or even months...
So, my new strategy is to keep my 'following people' small and then just manual keep tabs on it. The feed system has three problems, I find - A lot of my contacts are in different time zones so I miss there feeds any way. Secondly, if you are following any of the reblogging bots, then it trashes your feeds with lots of low quality content. Thirdly, I find I waste a lot of time scanning the feed for posts of those that I'm following (it' a 24 hour job, lol) - instead I systematically work through my short list over a week.
I skip right over the feed and find fresh content and people to follow in hot and trending sections.
You are welcome to check out the blog of @ainie.kashif, she runs a 'topic of the week' in a post called 'hello! hello! group' where we discuss topics to educate ourselves and newbies. It's a fun and supportive environment. We are trying to establish an online community.