Video hangouts and welcoming new arrivals
For in person conversations, there are the weekly online video chats. @trythis has been in many of the previous ones (do you still have some of that audio documentation?). When we did them in the past they were often meandering and could run on for ages, people dropping in and out. Kind of like a cafe. It can be really nice and a good way to get to know one another.
Something else we have tried is Video
- talk-to-me-about bubbles. People take a photo or video of themselves holding a speech bubble with containing their ER handle + * one sentence about what they are interested in ( videos here).
- skype interviews with more specific responses to questions e.g How are you making a living on the edge? (e.g. Elf's video here )
- more traditional short video interviews about people's life and work (videos here)
There are also older, pre-edgeryders experiments like this one
Maybe we can get a tradition going where people make videos and then post them in the arrivals group?
We already have a lot of videos from members lying around, so we could get in touch with them and invite them to get it started… what do you think @Shajara @Noemi @johncoate