Lonelygirl15

QtheC · Enthusiastic Fan Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 374

I have two ideas for how this community might help Clara to succeed with her thesis. Feel free to discuss these on this thread or add your own different ideas.

1. interview preparation - If Clara could let us know by posting a thread a couple of days ahead of time who she is planning to interview and possibly what she hopes to learn, we could add our advice and suggestions for questions and gather related background material to help her prepare for each interview. This will help Clara and possibly get some of our questions answered too. She told us a couple of days ago that she is planning to interview Joel Frady today, and we noted this, but have not really given her any organized assistance for that interview... (unless I missed it)

2. audience growth - One way Clara can justify her thesis work to her advisor is to show effort. For instance, just by sharing her interview videos with this community, she is improving the quality of the result by gaining access to more information, and communicating to a wider audience. We can further help Clara to succeed by bringing in additional viewers - the more who are watching and contributing to Clara's efforts, the more success she can claim in some sense. I know if I were her advisor, and she could show me that 500 people were reviewing and interacting with her work, that would be impressive, but 5000 would be more impressive.

So helping research and prepare questions for interviews, and inviting more viewers are two ideas... what do you think?

sparkybennett · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:07 am Post subject:

I think those are two good ideas and would provide some focus for us .

I think I am concerned with how we can best communicate to Clara without further irritating or confusing her.

There is a thread for introducing ourselves to Clara. that could be used as a sort of audience register...if every viewer made a post .. that may be hard though...how do you account for lurkers and such?
But it is a good idea.

It seems Clara doesn't enjoy reading the threads or being in chat. Do we think the best way to communicate with her is video?

If so our steps would be a thread for interview prep like
"Joel Frady interview" where we could gather all of our intelligence and research. then a spokesperson could concisely translate it to a video for Clara.

Does that sound like too much work?
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lg15panda · Casual Observer Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 95

Here's a suggestion I have:

We need a video log thread -- there are a lot of people making videos to help Clara (kellylen, GregGallows, etc.) and it would be really, really, REALLY helpful to have a stickied thread that would be updated with links to videos for Clara.

chershaytoute · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:45 am Post subject:

Someone start a thread of Videos for Clara, I'll get out the Super Glue... <madly rubbing hands together>
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JenniPowell · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: Re: Ideas for how to help Clara

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QtheC · Enthusiastic Fan Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 374

I'm not sure it is having much impact, but with regard to "audience growth" I am continuing to update a thread on unfiction.com "Maddison Atkins - Ch2 News" here http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20100

and I posted on the lonelygirl comments board drawing particular attention to the video interview of Maddison's father here: http://www.lonelygirl15.com/?p=293&play=1&more=1#comment-143010

For some reason, they seem to be slow getting the latest two videos posted, but when they appear, that might be a good time to draw attention to them again.

modelmotion · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject: 10 for 1

I think if each friend of Maddys can bring in 10 new viewers it would help greatly.

Danielle · Thor's Hammer Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 1248

i suggest, tough love.
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GregGallows · Casual Observer Joined: 29 May 2007 Posts: 115

chershaytoute · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:41 am Post subject:

Please remember to keep OOG comments to OOG discussion threads, folks! I'm going to do a wee bit of housekeeping a create a new thread for some discussion so Clara doesn't have to do any extra reading that she doesn't have to! (shame on y'all - we all know Clara's practically allergic to reading! Very Happy

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ApotheosisAZ · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:33 am Post subject: Re: Ideas for how to help Clara