This is really helpful for a meta-perspective, thank you! Let me answer the questions by turn.
First, some statistics. We’ve had increasing success over time with the engagement for our posts. For example, this latest post got 104 hits on the website on Monday, which was the highest one-day hit for our content (the previous highest was 76). We’ve had quite a bit of success with promoting our content through other channels, for example the Richard Dawkins Foundation promoted our content and it got a lot of “Likes” and reshares. Our 38-minute video of a workshop we did has over 600 views, and over 4,600 minutes watched.
Second, intentions to revise our blog style and content in general. We are right now gathering feedback for some revision in the style of our blog posts, including by talking to our target audience, both folks who read our blog posts for a while and also ones who did not. The engagement with Less Wrong is also intended to help us gain feedback in order to optimize our content. The main feedback we got so far is to make our content less hyperlinked, more specific and concrete, more visually appealing, and actually more self-helpy, to present ourselves as science-based self-improvement providers. We also got a lot of feedback that we should make short videos, and we intend to work on that as well, although that’s a harder task due to us lacking appropriate equipment and software.
Regarding promoting the organization on LW: we’re doing that for Less Wrongers who are not familiar with us or what we do. We don’t want to fall under the curse of knowledge :-) Perhaps there can be a better way of doing so—any suggestions would be welcomed. Also, any other ideas for how to engage better with the LW community would be great.
We are also in talks with the Secular Student Alliance, the American Ethical Union, the Unitarian Universalist Humanist Association, the American Humanist Association, and other organizations to promote our rationality-oriented content through their channels. In fact, we will be appearing on the American Humanist Association’s popular podcast, The Humanist Hour, tomorrow. We are also collaborating to produce resources for local affiliates of these national organizations to use as a means of promoting rationality.
So that’s where we are so far. Any suggestions on how to optimize our approach would be great.
This is really helpful for a meta-perspective, thank you! Let me answer the questions by turn.
First, some statistics. We’ve had increasing success over time with the engagement for our posts. For example, this latest post got 104 hits on the website on Monday, which was the highest one-day hit for our content (the previous highest was 76). We’ve had quite a bit of success with promoting our content through other channels, for example the Richard Dawkins Foundation promoted our content and it got a lot of “Likes” and reshares. Our 38-minute video of a workshop we did has over 600 views, and over 4,600 minutes watched.
Second, intentions to revise our blog style and content in general. We are right now gathering feedback for some revision in the style of our blog posts, including by talking to our target audience, both folks who read our blog posts for a while and also ones who did not. The engagement with Less Wrong is also intended to help us gain feedback in order to optimize our content. The main feedback we got so far is to make our content less hyperlinked, more specific and concrete, more visually appealing, and actually more self-helpy, to present ourselves as science-based self-improvement providers. We also got a lot of feedback that we should make short videos, and we intend to work on that as well, although that’s a harder task due to us lacking appropriate equipment and software.
Regarding promoting the organization on LW: we’re doing that for Less Wrongers who are not familiar with us or what we do. We don’t want to fall under the curse of knowledge :-) Perhaps there can be a better way of doing so—any suggestions would be welcomed. Also, any other ideas for how to engage better with the LW community would be great.
We are also in talks with the Secular Student Alliance, the American Ethical Union, the Unitarian Universalist Humanist Association, the American Humanist Association, and other organizations to promote our rationality-oriented content through their channels. In fact, we will be appearing on the American Humanist Association’s popular podcast, The Humanist Hour, tomorrow. We are also collaborating to produce resources for local affiliates of these national organizations to use as a means of promoting rationality.
So that’s where we are so far. Any suggestions on how to optimize our approach would be great.