Fabulous @trostparadox, thank you for sharing these with me earlier today. I'd love to curate proofofblind posts and would drop in the odd submission myself. What a fabulous idea to bring students into the fold and encourage positive and constructive engagement and curation whilst providing much-needed exposure and support to new authors on the Hive.
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Things are starting out kinda slow on the content submissions side, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. My students are still working on getting processes in place so they can handle an influx of submissions.
In any event, it will be interesting to see how things play out.
That's understandable. It's a new "game" probably for all of them. And getting the underlying processes resolved upfront is the right thing to do. I don't know how many times I've seen fantastic ideas crash and burn in the work sphere because in the end, without standardised practices and processes holding up the fort, the actual implementation turned to chaos, with haphazard disjointed approaches being taken by all and sundry. It's best to take your time with these things and develop solid foundations upon which to build. As for content submission, it probably just needs some time to become more well known as a project. The more reblogs you can get the better. I will submit something soon, just have a few commitments already made that I need to keep too and I'll send something in. All the best, and I'll keep checking in each week :-)
This is actually why I advised my son, who aspires to be an entrepreneurial owner / manager of multiple businesses, that his ideal job out of college would be to work for a large company (i.e. thousands of employees) for about 5 years or so, and pay careful attention to their processes. You cannot scale a business without solid, robust processes -- no matter how good the product or service.
And, that's what he is doing. He's working for a software company with 10k+ employees. I have no doubt that he may someday be running his own business (or multiple businesses) with 10k+ employees.
Sound advice indeed! :-) He will get really good exposure to how easily things break down without having the right building blocks in place. He can only draw positives from that.