Create Your Rainbow: Issue 4 - Conducting Community Research

Happy weekend friends 💖 

Welcome to the second issue of "Create Your Rainbow," - a newsletter designed to help unleash your community creativity. 🌈

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My Letter To You

As the founder of Together, I am in the process of conducting a research study and wanted to share my approach with you.

This makes the whole process so simple literally anyone can do it!

To begin my research, I used the ChatGPT text box as if I were asking a friend for their opinion on how I would execute this task. I pretended I had never even heard of how to research because I wanted to see how far it would go and how granular it could get. Then, I organized the questions into user data, experience, and topics, so that respondents could quickly provide clear and concise answers.

To create the survey, I decided to use Google Forms. Including clear instructions for each section and question and any incentives I offered to complete the survey was essential.

Once the survey was live, I shared it with my target audience and was able to collect data to make informed updates before a wider distribution. It will be incredibly rewarding to have enough data to create a future research paper that will be a valuable resource for others.

If you're interested in replicating this process, here are some steps to follow:

1. Start by identifying the key research questions you want to answer. Chat with ChatGPT or another language model to gain insights and develop a list of specific and detailed questions.

2. Organize your questions into categories or sections that cover the topics you want to investigate.

3. Create a survey using a tool like Google Forms. Make sure to include clear instructions for each section and question and any incentives you may offer for completing the survey.

4. Share the survey with your target audience and collect the data. Consider promoting the survey through social media, email newsletters, or other channels to reach a wider audience.

5. Once you have collected enough data, analyze the results and use them to improve your product or service, make informed business decisions, or create a research paper.

Following these steps, you can easily create a comprehensive research study and obtain valuable insights into your target audience's preferences, needs, and opinions.

It is important to note that you must have high-level knowledge of the topic you want to research. These AI systems are to be used for gaining particular guidance, not doing all the work for you. You must be capable of editing things in or out based on your expertise. They are tools, not the solution to all your problems.

Over the life of this newsletter, you’ll be introduced to many concepts, frameworks, and foundations that guide me in web3 community-building efforts. You’ll also have access to some fascinating digital collectible experiments I have planned in the coming months.

Reflections

This week I had the pleasure of connecting with Emily Rose Dallara, a coach who specializes in helping overwhelmed executives in web 3 and tech to overcome imposter syndrome and build work-life balance. We had a wonderful coaching session, and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the experience.

There were a few moments last year when I know I should have sought out a coach to help me get through some things. I struggled with imposter syndrome and this creative rut that was only recently unblocked by some miracle.

I think it’s because I’ve been opening up to help more recently, and folks like Emily help us recognize these things.

If you are struggling or need guidance, don’t hesitate to seek it out!

Recommended Resources

Alea

Web3 Community Canvas by Alea. This entire thread is bookmark, billboard, website, tattoo-to-your-forehead worthy. Study it, live it, breathe it.

Manifold

Manifold, the popular NFT minting platform enabling creative sovereignty in web3, is at it again with a new feature for the burn mechanism. Read all about it in the tweet above!

PS. If you would like your project or art in this section, reply to this email with the subject “Recommendations,” and let’s chat! These are not sponsored recommendations, only products and people I believe in, so DYOR.

Together

Together is helping community professionals establish, validate, and verify their expertise to acquire new jobs with higher wages. We do this through expert-led training modules, certifications, and non-fungible credentials.

Check out our Twitter Spaces here.

We met for the second weekend on Saturday with our Council of Extraordinary Writers. This week we focused on combining ChatGPT and sudowrite to conduct world-building and creative storytelling.

It is incredible what a creative can do with the assistance of AI. The key thing to remember here is that the human is always the one with the creativity and editorial direction.

Below, you’ll find all the Twitter Spaces I’ve spoken in, along with transcripts and resources pinned to each one. And you can follow along with my journey here on Twitter.

Who Are You? Each Tuesday at 6 PM ET, I host a safe and welcoming 30-minute Twitter Space where folks can chat with me about their hobbies and interests outside of blockchain tech. This is great for those needing to practice speaking in public audio rooms.

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