I’m about to pull the trigger on this lifetime membership deal you guys offer, mostly for the community engagement but of course for all the exclusive learning content as well. However, I don’t have facebook (don’t want to make one) and I’m wondering how open to using Discord you guys (@CWC Crew) would be.
I think it’d be a great place for real-time community engagement, especially for this particular community (tech & computers). We made one for our Computer Science class and nearly everyone in the program has joined it after a few short months, not to mention what a help it was last semester for most of us.
I also think it would be a quick and easy way to allow people to join/get their foot in the door with a simple link to our community Discord channel in your videos which would enhance the Community growth, yielding a stronger network of support. Subsequently, you’d likely see an increase in course orders
I wouldn’t mind creating a full fledged Discord channel for the CWC Community, working with you guys to create it around your ideal structure.
What does everyone else think? Would you like to have a Discord channel?
I’ve thought about chat based communities such as Slack and Discord before but in the end, opted for non-real time because the team and I wouldn’t be able to support it properly.
It’s great for chatting and connecting with people for sure (I’m on a few servers myself for various games)
However for student support purposes, it’s hard to make sure that every single question gets addressed if we’re not online all the time.
I see you’ve sent me a few PMs so i’ll continue the convo with you there!
While you might not be able to field every question in the live Discord environment, I think that’s a universal inevitability, especially as the community grows - However, the idea is for the community to be able to grow, connect, and communicate among each other, ultimately providing that help (at a rate beyond the capability of staff members) by sharing cumulative community knowledge among the members efficiently and effectively. I see this happening on the forum already, although at a slightly slower pace.
Ultimately, the idea would be for you guys not to have to answer every single question, rather, to create an environment/community around Swift & Xcode where someone in the community is bound to have an answer to your question, which you can ask on a whim.
I understand you’ve tried it for some games, although, I’m not sure if you read my previous messages regarding the server a couple of friends and I made for our Computer Science program @ Gonzaga. We have over 100 members now who are all helping each other based on our varying experiences and perspectives.
I’m also part of a few other Discord servers for information & learning, not just gaming!
We could also, easily add in a stipulation/specification that this Discord server is a community managed platform for live entanglement (with perhaps a few volunteer mods; I’m happy to be one), but if people need an answer and aren’t pressed for time they can/should make a forum post.
Thanks a lot for even opening the dialogue about this with me!
I see you just responded to another message - sorry for dropping multiple messages around for you to reply to - I appreciate your time, Chris
