The topic for #DigiBlogChat on Tuesday, October 19th is Data Strategies with topic and questions by @LazBlazter. 

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Here are the questions:

Q1. When it comes to running your business, do you know what data you need to make good decisions?

Q2. Would you describe your current situation as planned or ad hoc, i.e. you simply do things?

Q3. Have you considered creating a data strategy and if so what did you start with?

Q4. What 5 kinds of data do you believe you need to have to hand? For example, customer feedback, product availability, pricing, sales, wages.

Q5. Where would / could you begin to establish a data strategy?

Q6. What software applications are you using to manage / mine your data?

Q7. Can you share any data mining techniques that you have used and their benefits?

Q8. How often do  you use data and what do you do if you don’t have a use case?

Q9. Are you applying data quality checks to your data and the analytics you do?

Q10. Is data aggregation a risk or an opportunity, what do you think?

Q1. If your friend had a tip jar, would you be more inclined to leave a little something? Why or why not? 

Q2. What is the best way to ask people to follow your friend on social media?

Q3. How often do you engage with what your creative friends post? 

Q4. What are some easy ways to give your creative friends some business?

Q5. What are some free ways to support your creative friends? 

Q6. Tell us about a time you went the extra mile to support a friend!

Q7. What advice do you have for your creative friend about approaching opportunities for collections, exhibitions, or galleries?

Q8. When have you told a family member or friend who’s not on social media about a creative friend’s business?

Q9. What are some of your own creative outlets? Post pictures!

Q10. What have we left off this list of ways to support your creative friends?

Q1. What are your top tips to gain new followers?!

Q2. Understanding your audience is key! Can you identify your target audience’s demographics?

Q3. How do you find accounts that fall within your target audience based on interests and demographics?

Q4. Tweeting often is an important component to increase your following! How often are you posting?

Q5. What are some popular topics that typically gets your target audience engaged?

Q6. Interaction with others is crucial. What steps do you take to connect with your target audience?

Q7. How do you find new hashtags to use in your tweets?

Q8. What actions do you take to stay authentic from other accounts and stand out?

Q9. Please share some advice on creating an inviting profile that will intrigue other users!

Q10. How do you promote your accounts and draw in other users beyond the platforms?

1. Are you using Instagram to share photos or videos? Which format is your favorite and why? #digiblogchat
2. Do you use Instagram for fun, or do you promote products or services or your business? #digiblogchat
3. When you see a long caption, do you skip over it or at least scan it to see what it’s about? #digiblogchat
4. Do you ever use location tags, hashtags, or tag people or businesses? #digiblogchat
5. What’s your end goal for using Instagram? Connecting with friends? Getting more followers or conversions? #digiblogchat
6. Have you ever thought about blogging, but didn’t know where to start? #digiblogchat
7. Do you enjoy seeing comments on your Insta posts, and do you usually respond to the people who comment? #digiblogchat
8. Are you a geek who enjoys knowing where your followers come from and when they’re the most active? #digiblogchat
9. Which media type is your favorite on Instagram? Posts, Stories, Reels or another? #digiblogchat
10. What’s the most fun experience you’ve had on Instagram? #digiblogchat

1. What do we mean by eLearning? What has your experience been?
2. What has changed in learning via the internet during the past 5-6 years?
3. For better or for worse, we’re all learning online. How much of eLearning has been a result of innovation? How much has been a result of necessity?
4. For those of you who’ve been students, which classes have you taken? For instance, have you used Udemy? Coursera? EdEx? Harvard? Google?
5. Which technology have you really enjoyed? For instance… Zoom? What could be improved?
6. There are thousands of free courses offered online. Which have you taken advantage of and why? How did you decide to take those courses?
7. For those of you teaching online, what has been your experience in creating online courses?
8. How does online learning become an equalizer—helping us to improve or close the gap between different groups of people? (For example seniors, differently abled, or people without access to traditional resources.)
9. How might eLearning actually reinforce existing divides?
10. In an ideal world, where could eLearning take us in the future? Where would we like it to take us?

The topic for #DigiBlogChat on Tuesday, August 24th is Introvert or Extrovert and has WFH affected your personality? with @FinolaSloyanPR! Join us on Twitter each Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. PDT for #DigiBlogChat. My partner for these chats is @LazBlazter. If you need to know how to participate, click here: How to Join #DigiBlogChat.

1. Do you consider yourself an Introvert or an Extrovert and has #WFH affected or altered your personality type?

2. Introversion implies shyness and extroversion, gregariousness. Has WFH suited the former and perhaps allowed the introvert to shine in situations it may not have had the opportunity to, in the past?

3. A natural extrovert mixes well in any social situation, is outgoing and looks for social interaction. Typically, they are the person holding court in a social setting. How has this translated into an online setting on Teams, Zoom or Other?

4. Do you agree with introverts being described as shy? Why or why not?

5. One of the regulars in #DigiBlogChat said, straight up, “I’m an extrovert and WFH is so much better than trying to work in a noisy and disruptive office. And due to being an extrovert, a lot of the noise and disruption was from me!” Do you miss the buzz of the office?

6. Changes have been noticed in the demeanor of the extrovert in the time they have had to WFH. How, in your opinion, has it affected the extrovert’s personality and attitude?

7. Getting time back has been one of the big positives, if not the biggest, of having to WFH. In this time, what have you learned about your personality and have there been any surprises?

8. Can we be both introverted and extroverted? You may feel that you’re mostly introverted in nature because you prefer to be alone or in small groups, however you ‘can’ feel energized when you’re with the right crowd at the right time. Is this you?

9. Introvert or Extrovert, neither is right or wrong. Knowing our tendencies can help us to be more accepting when others don’t have the same responses to our own, do you agree?

10. Finally ….. have the last 18 months made us more self-aware or will we revert to type when we return to the office?

The topic for #DigiBlogChat on Tuesday, August 17th is The Innovation Journey. This is a collaboration with JohnWLewis of #Innochat! Join us on Twitter each Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. PDT for #DigiBlogChat. My partner for these chats is @LazBlazter. If you need to know how to participate, click here: How to Join #DigiBlogChat.

Background description

Innovation means different things to different people.

Let’s assume that innovation means improvements that involve step changes, that is: discontinuous improvement. This applies to the ways that we operate and to the products that we use. It involves how we behave in the presence of novel products and processes and how we initiate and contribute to the development and deployment of those novel products and processes.

We all learn and develop our views over time. And we all follow different routes.

This is about the route that you and other people take in the field of innovation: where you are, where you started from, how you got here, where you think you will end up, how you think you will get there, and what is next step.

Innovation is (arguably) the area which is least well managed of all areas of the activities of people and organizations.

These questions are about knowledge, understanding, and practise of innovation. This is about you (and your organization) and is about other people (in absolute terms and relative to you). And it’s about how this changes over time: past, present and future. While the journeys that we and others take follow many routes, they also have many similarities.

Here are the questions:

1. How important do you consider that innovation is to the achievement of your, or your organization’s, purpose … and why?

2. How different was your view of innovation in the past? Has its importance increased/decreased? Has its role changed or not?

3. Is your understanding of innovation still changing? In future, do expect to understand much more, or has your view stabilised?

4. Does the way that innovation is described by other people fit with your understanding (is it more or less important, are they ahead of or behind you on this journey)?

5. Do you think innovation has become more or less important over time (in the past)?

6. Do you think innovation will become more or less important in future?

7. Do you view innovation as something that we can ever manage effectively? Or do you think it will always be random and unpredictable?

8. Are you happy with the way that innovation is understood and managed? Or do you think that developments are needed? If so, what?

9. Do you think that innovation will ever be a routine aspect of how we behave or always be difficult?

10. Do you enjoy innovation? Or do you wish it would stop?!

The topic for #DigiBlogChat on Tuesday, August 10th is What not to do on social media! Join us on Twitter each Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. PDT for #DigiBlogChat. My partner for these chats is @LazBlazter. If you need to know how to participate, click here: How to Join #DigiBlogChat.

Here are the questions:

Q1. What’s one way to fail with social media passwords? 

Q2. When is a good time to send DMs on Twitter?

Q3. What are some big mistakes you’ve seen others make? 

Q4. Why is social media etiquette important? 

Q5. Why is it a good idea to steal images from others? 

Q6. When is it ok to automate all your posts? 

Q7. What’s a good number of hashtags? 

Q8. What good advice would you give to a rude person? 

Q9. What’s wrong with posting about yourself 24/7?

Q10. When is the absolute worst time to post?

The #DigiBlogChat topic for August 3, 2021 is Social Audio. Our special guest is Jennifer Navarette (@epodcaster).

Join us on Twitter each Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. PDT for #DigiBlogChat. My partner for these chats is @LazBlazter. If you need to know how to participate, click here: How to Join #DigiBlogChat.

Here are the questions: 

1. What is social audio and what makes it so special?
2. Is social audio something my business/nonprofit/cause/mission will benefit from using? Why or why not? 
3. What are some examples of how to use social audio for marketing? 
4. What are some best practices to get started with social audio?
5. Where can I find social audio platforms? (Twitter Spaces, Clubhouse, Spotify Greenroom, Fireside, Hotline and FB will soon be releasing Audio Rooms to the general public. Right now it has only been released to a small group of folks)
6. Who is or should be using social audio?
7. Is social audio like podcasting? Why or why not? 
8. Is there a way to record a social audio session. If so, how? 
9. How do I choose which social audio platform to use?
10. Join us for a Live Demo Mode Time (Optional) We will open up a #DigiBlogChat Twitter Space and invite everyone in to chat so you can experience it firsthand.