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Martina Pocchiari | The research about online communities and our Product Hunt launch
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As always after I stopped recording: we went to #people to hang out with our Discord community and ended up in a live-coding session with Martina and Taylor Swift.
Martina is very structured and super easy to chat about casual things, but when she speaks about her work - I don’t understand. I do understand the meanings of individual words but in my mind, they just don’t assemble into a narrative. At some point in the show, I even confessed and asked to talk in a simple language…
Then after the show, we had a fun exercise with Martina sharing her research results and asking for practical application options. I felt like a kid talking to an adult with Martina rephrasing my fragmented thoughts into a scientific language that I wouldn’t understand.
But I think, the more we hang out with Martina and her students in our Discord, the faster we’re able to develop a common lexicon and vocabulary.
Scientists are the new rock stars. You feel like that too, just never dared to tell anyone, right?
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Guest:
Martina Pocchiari is a PhD Candidate in Empirical Quantitative Marketing in the marketing group at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
Martina’s research projects
Martina’s LinkedIn
Hosts:
Community builders and digital content creators. Available for contract work.
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May 19, Wednesday, 16:00 CET livestream:
Calculating ROI and putting business numbers to a community - Nick Dijkstra - Co-Founder & Product at Port
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Upcoming episodes:
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The community for community builders - Alex Angel - Commsor
Online classes for making friends - Nina Iordanova and Niloo Ravaei - Good People
Running a Discord server for anime artists - Aigerim Aimova - Usagi Shop
Why Community Owner is not a Community Manager - Vincent Boon - Giants Technology
Using online events to build sustainable communities - Jana Boruta - HashiCorp
Developer communities and developer relations in 2021 - Alex Lakatos - Fidel API, Developer Avocados Weekly
Why businesses want to own communities in 2021 - Ashley Friedlein - Guild, Econsultancy
How to monetize community builders - Carmen Taubman - Unity, Community Coach
Soft confirmation from David Spinks - Cofounder of CMX, VP Community at Bevy
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