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A Substack is a book’s best friend: An interview with Luke Burgis

read • 10456 implied HN points • 28 Apr 23
💼 Business Marketing Engagement Authors Collaborations
  1. A Substack can be a powerful tool for writers to engage with readers and promote their books.
  2. Substack allows for direct connection with committed readers and can significantly impact book sales.
  3. Starting a Substack can help writers build a community, get feedback, and continue engaging with readers even after the publication of a book.

The Work of Being Mid

Oliver Bateman Does the Work • 235 implied HN points • 30 Jan 24
🎭️ Culture Social media Engagement Trolling Digital Communication Viral Content
  1. In social media, using terms like 'mid' is a powerful way to engage audiences and spark conversation.
  2. Challenging people's preferences by calling something 'mid' can create personalized interactions and provoke reactions.
  3. Provocative social media tactics like 'mid' posts blur the line between criticism and trolling, garner engagement, and maintain relevance.

Long Take: Growing financial engagement with messaging in Coinbase Wallet, Venmo, and the super apps

The Fintech Blueprint • 904 implied HN points • 18 Jul 23
💼 Business Finance Technology Engagement Commerce Messaging
  1. The intersection of finance and technology has led to innovative ways of mixing attention, commerce, and finance.
  2. Financial services are evolving beyond just being transactional machines to increase user engagement and improve customer retention.
  3. Developing a persistent digital identity for users and emphasizing interoperability and privacy are crucial in the evolving world of Web3.

Forming Habits To Improve Retention

Growth Croissant • 707 implied HN points • 08 Jun 23
💼 Business Retention Product Management Health & Wellness Engagement User Experience
  1. Encouraging healthy habits through features like competitions, goal setting, and streaks can improve user retention.
  2. Popular apps like Strava and Headspace use habit-forming features such as challenges and streaks to retain users.
  3. Habit-forming features must be deeply ingrained in the product to have a meaningful impact on user experience and retention.

Comment Décider ?

Venture Prose • 738 implied HN points • 22 Jan 23
💼 Business Leadership Framework Engagement
  1. To make decisions effectively, leadership, a decision-making framework, and team engagement are crucial.
  2. Leadership entails setting direction, rhythm, and ensuring alignment with the company's vision and mission.
  3. Utilizing a decision-making framework involves considering the level of information, potential impact, execution intensity, and reversibility of decisions.

The New Attention Economy

Litverse • 339 implied HN points • 05 Dec 22
🕹 Technology Gaming Engagement Attention Economy Content creation Digital Experiences
  1. The attention economy values depth over delirium, where engagement is meaningful and users seek what truly captures their attention in a world of digital distractions.
  2. Gamification, common in digital experiences, works by offering rewards and notifications to keep users engaged, but as it becomes ubiquitous, users are becoming desensitized to its effects.
  3. Products like Elden Ring and Substack focus on providing deep engagement, free from constant notifications and gamified distractions, offering users the opportunity to truly immerse themselves in the experience.

The Unbundling of Twitter

ceonyc • 137 implied HN points • 20 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Social media Networking Platforms Engagement
  1. Consider the shift towards posting on platforms that are more specialized for specific topics or verticals.
  2. Analyzing the engagement on different social media platforms can provide insights on audience relevance and interaction.
  3. Reflect on how the trend of unbundling services, like seen with Craigslist, could impact the microblogging and newsfeed landscape.

Why Mastodon?

Digital Epidemiology • 19 implied HN points • 04 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Social media Open Source Decentralization User Experience Engagement
  1. Mastodon is like Twitter but open source and decentralized, making it the future of social media.
  2. Mastodon's open-source nature allows for enormous creativity with various apps and user experiences.
  3. Being decentralized, Mastodon offers users choice, control, and a niche platform with a more engaging and pleasant tone compared to mainstream social media.

Checked Out

Some Unpleasant Arithmetic • 5 implied HN points • 25 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Social media Verification Celebrities Engagement Communication
  1. Twitter drama over blue check verification sparked controversies among celebrities and users.
  2. Celebrities face trade-offs between engaging with a large audience and avoiding risks to their reputation on social media platforms.
  3. Challenges arise when the system allows anyone to be verified, potentially mixing important figures with undesirable individuals.

Guide: Cultivating trust in your developer ecosystem (Part 2) 

Developer GTM – by Calyx Consulting • 19 implied HN points • 15 Apr 21
🕹 Technology Development Community Engagement Feedback Events
  1. Cultivating trust in a developer ecosystem involves providing access to knowledge, people, and relationships.
  2. Important strategies include public roadmap sharing, clear communication of updates, and offering early access to new features.
  3. Building face-to-face relationships through developer advisory boards, office hours, and helping developers get usage is crucial for long-term trust.

Engaging security and triage

Identity Revive • 0 implied HN points • 17 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Security Cybersecurity Engagement
  1. Engaging with business and IT for cyber security is crucial regardless of the team size - from large to small teams.
  2. Having a structured way to receive requests and engage with cyber security can help manage workload and prioritize tasks effectively.
  3. Implementing a questionnaire or form for cyber security engagement can streamline information collection, increase awareness of policies, and save time.

How to shift your brand's power from your products to your community

Bold & Open • 0 implied HN points • 24 Mar 24
💼 Business Branding Marketing Community Engagement
  1. Align your organization's brand with your community by focusing on your tribe's identity, goals, and values, instead of trying to fit them into your preconceived brand image.
  2. Create meaningful brand touchpoints that reflect your overall brand essence. Keep these touchpoints simple and few to provide consistent and impactful experiences for your community.
  3. Measure your brand's success through the Brand Commitment Scale, assessing levels of customer satisfaction, delight, engagement, and empowerment. Prioritize building long-term relationships with members over short-term revenues.

Join me on Notes

Exploring Tools for Thought • 0 implied HN points • 15 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Social media Connections Engagement
  1. The post invites readers to join the author on Notes, a new space on Substack for sharing various content like links, quotes, and photos.
  2. Readers can automatically see the author's notes by heading to substack.com/notes or finding the Notes tab in the Substack app.
  3. The author encourages readers to share their own notes and hopes for an interactive space where everyone can engage with thoughts, ideas, and quotes.