Or people who have commit privileges to popular newspapers could write articles like “10 things LW taught me”.
That draws the wrong people.
When doing Quantified Self community building we found in in Germany that while we were featured plenty in mainstream media, the interesting people who came to our meetups hadn’t heard of us over that channel.
We learned that it doesn’t make sense to hold QS meetups in German in Berlin, because everybody who’s interesting speaks English but not everybody who’s interesting speaks German.
You don’t want the people who take popular newspapers seriously.
That draws the wrong people.
When doing Quantified Self community building we found in in Germany that while we were featured plenty in mainstream media, the interesting people who came to our meetups hadn’t heard of us over that channel. We learned that it doesn’t make sense to hold QS meetups in German in Berlin, because everybody who’s interesting speaks English but not everybody who’s interesting speaks German.
You don’t want the people who take popular newspapers seriously.