Here’s the Google Spreadsheet template. Make a copy to use.
Here’s me explaining how to use it:
Finally compiled the responses and some numbers from this experiment:
What was valuable?
Do differently?
#collision
The good thing about this experiment is that it’s made me much more conscious about pruning my email. July was a tough month for me. With the 2.0 launch of the DIY Strategy / Culture toolkits as well as the launch of my coaching workshops, I got a lot of email, and wasn’t able to zero out this month. On the upside, my April and May inboxes both shrunk substantially, and my June inbox went to zero.
#monthlyinboxzerominusone
I spent about two hours the past two days playing with Google Apps Script and researching the Trello API. I’ve got something basic that parses the spreadsheet. Now I need to create Trello cards.
I tried using this library, but the authorization code went into an infinite loop. I think the easier thing to do is to just hard code the authorization for now, at least to get this working. I can play with a more elegant solution later.
Likes:
Confusion:
#duendeclarity
Alexa’s team created a WhatsApp group for our #collision experiment. This, in itself, is a bit of an experiment; we’ll see if it encourages sharing / checkin accountability. Jake and Eric said hello on the group, but so far, no other pair other than Rob and me have shared a checkin takeaway.
I was inspired to try this experiment after reading this personal productivity article. For the most part, there was nothing new for me in this article, but I was intrigued by the section on tracking your biorhythms. I decided to basically try his experiment almost exactly — same frequency, same time period, same dimensions (i.e. Energy, Focus, Mood). The only difference is that I chose a five point scale rather than three. (I noticed he was using decimal points, which to me defeats the benefits of using a three point scale.)
A few things I’ve noticed after a few days of tracking:
#biorhythms
I published, “Invisibility Doesn’t Serve the Work,” on June 20, 2017. I simultaneously shared a copy of it on Medium and a link to it on LinkedIn.
On LinkedIn, I got 197 “views of post in the feed.” Previously, I had gotten 33 and 65 views of the full articles I had shared there. However, clicks are probably a better comparison, because the feed view only contains a few sentences and the link. According to Google Analytics, I got 7 clicks from LinkedIn.
Engagement-wise, my sharing received 4 likes and 0 comments (compared to 5 likes and 0 comments and 25 likes and 5 comments previously).
There were two views on Medium after the first day, but no reads. Then I asked Kate to click on Recommend. Since then, the post had 11 views, 5 reads, and 2 recommends (vs 2, 0, 0 and 2, 1, 0 previously).
In both cases, I shared in the morning, which may have had something to do with the engagement numbers.
#linkedinrepublishingvslinking #mediumcrickets
Reflections / Next Steps for Colearning:
Next time:
Thank Yous and Checkouts
#colearningretreat2
Just shared a link to my latest Faster Than 20 blog post on LinkedIn. Looking forward to tracking engagement with posting a link vs writing a LinkedIn article.
#linkedinrepublishingvslinking