HiveChat Recap from my hosting of May 2nd 2023

Hello Hello Hivians

Last Tuesday on the evening of the 2nd of May I had the pleasure to host #HIVECHAT on Twitter.

I would love the chance to host it again at some point in the future.

This post then details the events leading up to the #hivechat and indeed during and afterwards. The post I hope will serve as a good guide for myself or anyone who is to host #hivechat in the future!

During a Talk Time with Tengo recap post I had asked @traciyork and @epodcaster whether they would like to appear on my show!

This was not the answer from @traciyork that I had bargained for!

But hey... that gives me an idea... maybe we could have a sort of Matilda Day some Tuesday? You could help her come up with five Hive Chat questions that you could tweet out on her behalf from your Twitter account, starting at 6pm UTC (2pm ET), then let Hive Twitter know that Jennifer & I will then be on your Ecency Discord show afterwards at 7pm UTC (3pm ET).

I had been asked by @traciyork to host #hivechat

I am one who generally does not say No to someone or something, I might not do something twice, but I will generally do it at least once.

Of course I said yes now then ...

HELP - What the fluff was #hivechat?

I had vague recollections of seeing the odd #hivechat tweet from @traciyork in the past on tweeter but in reality I had no clue what it was all about!

Traci being Mrs Efficient had set up a Discord chat for @epodcaster herself and myself the week before the #hivechat was due to take place.

It soon became apparent I had no fluffing clue what #hivechat really was!

Cue the go and check out this post that @traciyork wrote #HiveChat #3 - My Recap of the August 4th #Hive Chat on Twitter, hosted by me (@TraciYorkWriter)

Between that post and checking the profiles on twitter of Traci and @shadowspub who hosted #hivechat on April 4th (and later she would tell me that was her first #hivechat as host) and what was said in our wee chat the day before the #hivechat I finally knew what to do!

I had my questions sorted and @traciyork made this quite wicked banners! That was my announcement gif for Twitter!

Que fancy!

#HIVECHAT

#HiveChat is a weekly #Tweetchat about all things #Hive held on Twitter!

There is a different host every week, which means that there is a different time for the #HiveChat every week.

• The chat lasts an hour.
• There is a new tweet every ten minutes.
• There is an IceBreaker question followed by 5 questions
• Your respond with #HiveChat in all your tweets
• Start your tweet with the appropriate A1, A2 etc so people know what you are answering!

My Questions

With the aid of @traciyork I perfected my IceBreaker and five Questions and traci made some fancy visuals to add to the tweets!

Icebreaker

Introduce yourselves to Matilda & make her feel at home. #HiveChat

Question 1

Q1: What are some of your favourite Discord live chats related to Hive? #HiveChat

Question 2

Q2: How would you explain Hive to someone who is from an older generation or tech challenged? #HiveChat

Question 3

Q3: Would being a card/character in a Hive game make you more willing to play and/or spend Hive/HBD to play a Hive game? #HiveChat

Question 4

Q4: What regional (related to where you live/language you speak) communities do you participate in on Hive? #HiveChat

Question 5

Q5: What type of posts do you interact with that contain giveaways, or are there any that you will refuse to interact with? #HiveChat

My Tweets

The best advice you will get is to SCHEDULE YOUR TWEETS beforehand!

It is nigh on impossible to keep up answering thereplies let alone try to askanewquestion, so before #hivechat starts, get your tweets written, attach the images and schedule them.

Thank you @epodcaster for your perfect simple and consise instructions on how to schedule your tweets. They worked a treat!

Icebreaker

Icebreaker - My favourite answer

I felt quite chuffed when @jeanlucsr joined in the #hivechat as he hosted the first on July 21st 2020 and first coined the hashtag #hivechat, and had been absent for a while!
Thank you for joining in @jeanlucsr

Question 1

Question 1 - My favourite answer

Pimp Your Post Thursday PYPT hosted by @shadowspub as pointed out by @epodcaster hands down was the most popular answer. I was pleasantly surprised to see a fair few tweets mentioning my or is it Matilda's show Talk Time with Tengo😃

Question 2

Question 2 - My favourite answer

I loved this answer from @treefrognada as because Matilda picked her ears at the mention of shops and was wondering when the Gin would be available for her and @ravenmus1c in the @hive-shop 🤔

Question 3

Question 3 - My favourite answer

Matilda was chuffed when she saw the answer from @traciyork after all what lady does not like being congratulated or complimented! Of course, she did celebrate by pinching another tonic from me so that she could have another gin!

Question 4

Question 4 - My favourite answer

I loved this answer from @edwing357 because he really is everywhere and I sometimes see him in my show Talk Time with Tengo, but even though Spanish is his native language he still makes the effort to join in.
Gracias @edwing357

Question 5

Question 5 - My favourite answer

@combination is a fantastic project that runs The Weekly Hive Charity Giveaway! 50% of proceeds got to @papilloncharity
Thank you @drakernoise for what you do coordinating this!

Conclusions

I had tried to ask questions around topics/projects that I had either experience of or an interest in or both!

Both Traci and Jennifer were absolutely fantastic before and during #HiveChat, they answered all my questions and even preempted them at times. Plus I learnt how to schedule a tweet!

If you ever get offered the chance to host a #HiveChat, don't hesitate just ask When!

Thank you Traci and Jennifer for being awesome and for being great sports on Talk Time with Tengo that followed straight after #HiveChat!

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!

PS I have seen that today's #HiveChat is being hosted by another Ed @edsull at 10am EST! See you there!!!