Yesterday I hosted HiveChat on Twitter. For anyone that doesn't know about HiveChat it's a weekly event held each Tuesday on Twitter where the community answers questions from that weeks host about HIVE. It's usually hosted Tuesday at 12 PM GMT but the host can choose to change the time based on their timezone or needs. I hosted mine at 12 EST / 4 GMT If you want to learn more about HIVE, interact with the community and meet some fellow community members I strongly recommend checking out a HiveChat. Here's a query link for Twitter. To see what it's all about. If you're on Twitter I hope you decide to join us in the future.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23HiveChat&src=typed_query
I'm on Twitter all the time and I'm used to talking on there so it was a natural fit for me. I have to admit I was a little nervous about it though. What if nobody showed up? What if my questions sucked? What if my crypto friends outside of Hive hated all the Hive "noise" (for lack of a better word) in my feed? All these questions swirled around my mind the closer I came to the date!
Thanks to @traciyork for this awesome animation.
I was asked a few weeks ago to host and as the week of the big day approached I started getting more and more anxious / borderline nervous wreck! I had helped @hiro-hive do the HiveChat HiveTips promotion a couple weeks earlier and seen what a bang up job he did. The following week I sat in on @jongolson HiveChat. They both had fantastic graphic cards, asked great questions and did a great job communicating with both the Hive Community and Crypto Twitter. In my opinion these were tough acts to follow! Kudos to both of you if you're reading this!
So as my week to host drew near I was getting kind of nervous. I haven't done graphics in a really long time. For this reason my hard drive and clip art is in a really sorry unorganized state. I really didn't even know where to start with my graphics cards.
About 5 days before the event, like magic, everything came together with the help of so many Hive community members. I had just finished writing out all the questions I wanted to ask the community and I was nervously getting ready to start my graphics. I was actually having a little anxiety thinking they weren't going to come out professional looking. @stellabelle DM'd me on Twitter and offered to make the question cards for me. Thank you soooo much if you're reading this. I loved the way they came out and you have no idea how much I appreciated the help. I also need to shout out to @doze who did the background in the graphics! Thank you! Here's one of the question cards she made.
Thanks to @steevc for helping me come up with this question and also for showing up on Twitter and supporting the event with some fantastic answers to the questions.
As the day arrived I was all set. I felt I had decent questions, the graphics looked great, and I decided to do some Hive Tips and Splinterlands card give aways selecting some of my favorite answers to the questions.
I woke up transferred some Hive into my account from @ionomy then went to use the HiveTips extension on Twitter to discover it was down! This was the first problem I had.
Not being able to use HiveTips I decided to tell people to post their Hive username in the question answer but it still got confusing. This post is about my experience hosting HiveChat so as a warning to future hosters, come up with an organized system for distributing tips. Filtering through all the answers after the fact was confusing and finally I decided to just select a handful of users that answered several questions with thoughtful replies and give them a few HIVE each. My original plan was to distribute 50 hive in one or two Hive tips for good answers and give away a few @splinterlands or @risingstargame cards to anyone that mentioned those games.
Congratulations to @joetunex and @coolguy123 for winning the Splinterlands cards. Nobody had mentioned RisingStar in comments. It's a really fun game to check out though!
Tips were rewarded to @pixiepost, @coolguy123, @steevc, @macchiata, @rickardoh and @chasmic-cosm. I'm also waiting for a few others to post their Hive usernames to Twitter.
IMHO that part of the HiveChat for me was a disaster. I've done several giveaways on Twitter and felt I really flubbed this one. Granted, HiveTips went down to some API issues with Twitter. I run CryptoNewsBot on Twitter and I no how fickle they can be with their rules and API keys.
The second problem was 100% my fault. Because I rescheduled HiveChat for 12pm EST / 4pm GMT I decided to send a reminder message using NewsCrypoBot to #HiveChat on Twitter to remind anyone that may not know about the time change. I got confused when programming the bot in my Raspberry Pi and the Tweets would have been sent an hour late. I happened to wake up though and checked shortly after the regularly scheduled time so I did manage to get a message out telling people it was rescheduled.
So by the time I got started I was a nervous wreck. As the time approached I got my graphics cards with the questions all set and organized. I had my questions written out in my text editor to copy and paste into each Tweet. I sat by my computer diligently waiting for 12 pm EST to arrive. At high noon I announced on Twitter HiveChat had begun and what can I say, the Hive Community is just an incredible group of human beings!
People began answering questions. Conversations started. A few people from outside HiveTwitter joined in learning about our wonderful community. D.buzz represented their app, I believe Splinterlands crew answered a few questions. The Hive community rose to the occasion and not only made me feel incredibly comfortable but did an incredible job educating Crypto Twitter about our wonderful community.
I don't know what else to say. It was a magickal experience for me. I made a couple new friends, met some great people and got to know a lot more of the fantastic people that make up the Hive Community. Ten minutes into it all my nervousness was gone and it was just a fun Twitter chat, discussing one of my favorite crypto projects HIVE.
I've mentioned a few people in the post but I'd also like to thank @jeanlucsr and @nathanmars... They both do a lot to represent the Hive community and promote our platform. They both represented and had some great answers to my questions.
If you're on Twitter you also want to follow these accounts to keep up to date on Twitter promotions and also share content of fellow community members. That's really what HiveChat is about, spreading awareness to people outside our community. The best way to do that is to share our fellow community members work on other platforms outside of Hive. This is how we grow!
https://twitter.com/HivePeople
https://twitter.com/HiveBlogShare
I don't know what else to say about this. Even after the rocky start this was such an enjoyable experience. I loved seeing and meeting so many new faces in the Hive Community. Thank you to everyone who helped out and made this possible. Many thanks to anyone I may have missed too. A lot of people, some I barely knew, really helped make this a successful event in my opinion and I hope everyone elses.
If you joined in the conversation, thank you so much for your support and making me feel welcome! I loved meeting all of you and had a terrific time. I was actually up till around 9 that evening replying to some comments. It was a lot of work but worth every second! Thank you! If I didn't reply to your comment, please don't feel slighted there were just so many! I'll probably go through some tonight and see how many I missed! Thanks again, love you all!