Community Liaison Report #6

(1) Community Liaison Reports: Will be all text, no videos for now. Text is easier to edit after the fact, and view count went from about 400 to 150 when I started including more text below the video.

(2) Quirky Community Activity (10/27): About 1,700 active users yesterday, and about 6,500 active users this week.  About 80 new idea submissions added daily.

(3) Product Updates: Shower Station now shipping!  Flair made it out of Presale (See more in Thundernumber’s PreSales Report).

(3) Meeting with Shirley: We discussed how to reach members outside of the Forums to make more contact and get valuable feedback.  We are considering adding something (including polls) to the Weekly email blast.

(4) The Qmunity Hub: Because of the many channels for Quirky and Qmunity communication (blog, website info, questions@quirky,com, Get Satisfaction, Forum, Weekly Newsletter, phone contact, Twitter, Facebook), it seems like a centralized hub could be valuable.  For now, it will be this one Forum Thread (with its own URL, if possible). This dynamic Hub will be a work in progress, and will link to important areas of information around Quirky.com, including various…

(5) Wikithreads:  A lot of valuable information is shared within Forum threads.  However, it can be hard to find the nuggets if the thread gets very long.  Wikithreads are Forum threads where the thread itself is summarized in the first several comments, which are updated frequently with the relevant info being added to the thread, and from around Quirky.com (here is a recent example).

(6) What Happens after you Submit an Idea? This wikithread presents clarification about the steps a submission goes through before becoming a winner, and what is communicated along the way (an updated version of Copper’s own similar thread).

(7) Forum Happenings: (a) Should Quirky also include private submissions? (b) Thundernumber’s Brain-Blitzing, based on his successful experiment.

(8) Tech Report: (a) Quirky is not planning on adding an Oldest Sort to the evaluation process.  But it is the default sort on the  iPhone app, and you can sort by oldest yourself (Wunderlicht shows you how here). (b) Quirky is not planning to delay how quickly a submission can enter UC, but they’re “working on implementing a solution that will give you more time, and make the whole consideration process a lot more predictable.”

(9) Bandits: For all who committed during presale, you will get a $10 credit for each unit you ordered, which will be added to your account once the 2 week commitment period ends.  Remember, though, that for any preorders, price, qty and features subject to change during production process. Your credit card will not be charged when a commitment is placed.

(10) Newbie Links: (a) Learn about Quirky, (b) The Do’s and Don’t, (c) Getting Started, (d) Introduce Yourself, (e) JohnG’s Q-Tips.

Feel free to comment here, but to discuss this report further, please do so in the corresponding Forum Thread.

Thanks.  If you have any comments or questions not better suited for the thread above, please email me at matt@quirkyinc.com.