How Should This Work? Help me figure it out

[Scott]

Hello! Thanks for joining this group.

As Monday March 9th approaches the question on my mind is how exactly this reading group will work. I've never done, nor seen an author do, something quite like this before. So here's what i have in mind, but feedback is welcome.

1. Each Monday morning I'll start a new discussion thread for the week (and the 2 or 3 chapters).
2. I'll offer my thoughts on what I read.
3. I'll gladly listen for thoughts from you folks.
4. I'll answer any questions that come up.
5. Perhaps every Wednesday I'll do a live Q&A to mix things up for the week.
6. I'll close the week by trying to summarize, or asking for a volunteer to do it.


Sound good? Better way to do this? Ideas welcome.

Cheers,

-Scott

[Lisa]

Scott, sounds like a plan. The only thing I suggest is that we do some sort of retrospective each week, noting what went well and one or two things that we want to do differently for the next week. It'll be an experiment to see how Goodreads can support that, and if it doesn't work, we can move to other tech.

[Scott]

Lisa: Retrospectives sound great. Are you volunteering to do the first one? :)

I looked around for which tech to use and GoodReads seemed the simplest. Although I do wish they had threaded conversations. Happy to move if we have a truly better alternative.

[Kevin]

The plan looks good. I guess the only issue with live Q&A could be if the group are spread out over different timezones.

FWIW, I'm based in the UK so am normally on GMT time.

I'm new to GoodReads so don't know if you have visibility of everyone's timezone or want to do a straw poll?

[Lisa]

I can probably do the first Retrospective. It would be at the end of this week, yes, so around 3/15?

[Scott]

Lisa: Sure - this is the first week so lets see how active things are here. There might not be that much conversation to summarize :)

[Scott]

So here's how this will work:

I'll create a new discussion for each chapter. You can post thoughts or ask questions there.

Chapter 1 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Chapter 2 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'm also going to set up a weekly livechat Q&A. Working on details for when/how and I'll post that soon.

[Scott]

My top gripe so far is goodreads doesn't have threaded comments - I'd much prefer to be able to visually see which replies are to which comments.

Looking around at other message board websites it seems none of them have this basic feature either. If anyone has a recommendation let me know.

[Kye]

Scott, Disqus works well for threaded discussions: https://disqus.com/