At the Advocate Hub we had educational sessions and challenges on all levels. I liked them and hope that something like this will come back.
These sessions have been interesting in many aspects:
as “heads up” for upcoming or brand new features
they provided some times a different view how to use features
they introduced tools
they did a great job to recap things you do not do on a day to day base
they taught best practice
they have been fun
I am unsure if I am alone with this thought, are there more of you who would like sort education session in this forum?
Hello Jamie,
there is no single answer, there have been various formats. The base concept was that almost everything was setup as challenge. But about the formats, there have been:
webinars, with a questionnaire at the end (depending on the level you may only could provide a good answer when you read further sources)
kind of “MDB university light”
reading some posts/blogs about brand new features and answering a questionnaire at the end
intro of new functions/features followed with a coding challenge (there have been may, most with stich)
intros to participate in private betas (advanced level)
@Jamie, if you like to find out the internals I may point you to @Ken_Alger, he was the last Moderator of the Hub. Francesca Krihely, initiated the Advocate Hub (Director, Groth Marketing) she might also can tell you more about the internals.
To all readers, would you like something like that? Since there is no polling, could you please leave a reply or a like to get this to some visibility - or non in case I am alone with my suggestion
@Doug_Duncan Access to some features (like creating polls) is based on Trust Levels. Established users gain access to more perks & abilities to help contribute to the community.
If you have access to build a poll, doing so should be possible both from a new thread and a thread comment.
Hello
since we are still a fairly small (beta)group and some may not know what to expect with the mentioned formats, I assume that a poll will not be very representative due to the few number of users.
Jennie mentioned, in an other thread, that she is open for ideas. Having this in mind I’d like to keep this thread open and gather your opinion.
Personally I’d vote for educational session in general, not caring about the format in a first step. In a second step, about the format: I like to have different sources as mentioned in the above list.
As Doug, I also like the idea of challenges.
tl;dr
Let’s get the stone rolling: any thoughts about to have or not to have educational sessions, maybe setup as challenges?
Love the brainstorming here. We’re also working on rolling out a new events management platform (very soon) and this will help us to facilitate virtual events (read: webinars) generated by the community. Still have some logistics to work out on that front, but keep an eye out for an announcement
Going forward, community-related announcements will appear in the Announcements category here, but we’ll also continue to do cross-publishing (i.e. on Twitter, the mongodb.com blog, etc.)
Yes, the Slack workspace will be retired in the next few weeks. The goal is to consolidate all community channels into this forum (Slack, Google Groups, etc.)
