Fandom Snowflake 2019 #4: Say Hello
Jan. 4th, 2019 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptComment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them.
Which has some extra-good timing, given that we're only a couple weeks out from Tumblr and Facebook making decisions that make good business sense (the people providing the money are more important than the people providing the content) even if they are the sorts of things that destroy a community and often remove the thing that was so appealing to the people who provide the money.
Without content, platforms are pretty useless. Without users, social-media sites have less reach. And it's difficult to find a place that is firmly committed to letting you be the person that you are, in all your aspects, fully, to explore the things that you are interested in to the fullest extent the law allows. Because that kind of place has to refuse advertisers and hope that it can get enough members to keep the site operating. Dreamwidth is managing it so far, even if it means it's not the most up-to-trendy kind of site.
So, given that it's about saying hello to new people (and older ones, too), here's what I'm proposing: In a lot of professional development circles, there's usually a conference service called "resume review" or "interview prep". The idea is to help people who are looking for new connections to get practice and advice on how to arrange their documents and cover letters so that people looking to hire them will put them past the first few screenings, and to give them practice in a low-stress environment at answering the kinds of questions that interviewing committees will want to know about them, to see if they have the skills and temperament to do well at the job, and to see if they're interested enough in working at the company to hire them.
I'm proposing that for this post, I want to do reviews / prep to someone's introduction posts or their "Hi, I'm appearing in your comments for the first time, here's a little about me so that you know we are going to squee about the same things" comments. Or other introductory forms that someone might want to use in their communities around. Because sometimes what we would like is another pair (or several) of eyes on our works to help make sure that the thing contains everything we want to say and that it's appealing and attractive to others that might be browsing.
So, it's not a friending thing, per se, because there's no form to fill out. But if people make friends with each other and get new connections, I'm going to grin and say "Hee. My ulterior purpose has been achieved. Go me."
Which has some extra-good timing, given that we're only a couple weeks out from Tumblr and Facebook making decisions that make good business sense (the people providing the money are more important than the people providing the content) even if they are the sorts of things that destroy a community and often remove the thing that was so appealing to the people who provide the money.
Without content, platforms are pretty useless. Without users, social-media sites have less reach. And it's difficult to find a place that is firmly committed to letting you be the person that you are, in all your aspects, fully, to explore the things that you are interested in to the fullest extent the law allows. Because that kind of place has to refuse advertisers and hope that it can get enough members to keep the site operating. Dreamwidth is managing it so far, even if it means it's not the most up-to-trendy kind of site.
So, given that it's about saying hello to new people (and older ones, too), here's what I'm proposing: In a lot of professional development circles, there's usually a conference service called "resume review" or "interview prep". The idea is to help people who are looking for new connections to get practice and advice on how to arrange their documents and cover letters so that people looking to hire them will put them past the first few screenings, and to give them practice in a low-stress environment at answering the kinds of questions that interviewing committees will want to know about them, to see if they have the skills and temperament to do well at the job, and to see if they're interested enough in working at the company to hire them.
I'm proposing that for this post, I want to do reviews / prep to someone's introduction posts or their "Hi, I'm appearing in your comments for the first time, here's a little about me so that you know we are going to squee about the same things" comments. Or other introductory forms that someone might want to use in their communities around. Because sometimes what we would like is another pair (or several) of eyes on our works to help make sure that the thing contains everything we want to say and that it's appealing and attractive to others that might be browsing.
So, it's not a friending thing, per se, because there's no form to fill out. But if people make friends with each other and get new connections, I'm going to grin and say "Hee. My ulterior purpose has been achieved. Go me."
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Date: 2019-01-04 05:22 pm (UTC)Hee hee - good goal! :D
I'm going to do a length introductory post at some point (waiting on a new profile layout from someone, and once I get it, I will do the post at same time) so if you're still offering at that time, do you mind me coming back to you to ask you to check it over?
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Date: 2019-01-04 09:45 pm (UTC)I'm also taking this post as a reminder that *making* introductory comments at all is a good habit to get into. So... hi. I'm pretty sure I'm appearing in your comments for the first time.
Some things about me:
* I'm an Earth Systems scholar with a strong interest in sustainable agriculture and resilient infrastructure.
* I live in Boston and am on the peripheries of the local poly and Burner communities.
* I like theater style LARP a lot, which I have mostly done at Intercon.
* My daughter was born in 2015 and I'm only just now beginning to reemerge socially.
* I struggle a lot with how to balance the value I place on pluralism with the value I place on social justice and anti-oppression.
* I generally post on Dreamwidth between 1 and 4 times per week, sometimes more, usually access-locked.
If you are interested in connecting (whether or not you know who I am), feel free to send me a message.
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Date: 2019-01-06 02:24 am (UTC)Profiles and intro posts are always works in progress. If you're not sure what you want to say, that's great. Sometimes a good place to start with those is "what would I want to know from someone if I were looking at their journals/profiles?"