Book Nerd Alliance
What's a book nerd?
Started by J.D. Lasica
Description: Here's what our book nerds group is all about. Ask us questions and wear your book nerdiness with pride!
We had a super-productive second meeting of the Book Nerd Alliance. Thank you to everyone who took time out from their day to join us.
If you’re new to the Alliance, we look to the Book Nerds for your ideas on books you’d like to add to the site (we’re at 160,000+ now with 100,000+ more coming soon), Lists or Groups or carousels we should be adding, pages that need editing, features you’d like us to add, etc. We hope some of you will join our Book Curators chan...
We had a super-productive second meeting of the Book Nerd Alliance. Thank you to everyone who took time out from their day to join us.
If you’re new to the Alliance, we look to the Book Nerds for your ideas on books you’d like to add to the site (we’re at 160,000+ now with 100,000+ more coming soon), Lists or Groups or carousels we should be adding, pages that need editing, features you’d like us to add, etc. We hope some of you will join our Book Curators channel on Slack. Contact me if you’d like to join.
Highlights from the call:
• If you’re liking any aspect of BingeBooks and want to help us spread the word, we’re looking for short one- or two-sentence testimonials so we can use your quote (and first name and last initial), mostly in social media. Just email kristen@bingebooks.com with a sentence or two of some aspect or feature of the site you enjoy or find useful. Thank you!
• We’ve launched Groups! Please log in on bingebooks.com and check out the new Groups feature in the top navigation. Please join a few public groups and introduce yourself or start a new Topic within a Group, or start a new Group if you have a few fellow book lovers who are looking for a place to discuss books!
• We’re looking at Feb. 23 or 24 to launch the BingeBooks Book Club in Groups. Each month we’ll have one speaker who will discuss her or his books, with a specific book spotlighted during the month so folks can read it in advance, and then spend a half hour or so in a live video chat with readers. More details to follow.
• JD invited all members of the Alliance to join our Slack group, where we have a private book-curators channel to discuss anything related to book curation, editing, the website, etc. Send an email to jd@bingebooks.com if you’d like to be invited into Slack.
• On Tuesday BingeBooks rolled out a new three-tab search feature on bingebooks.com. It still needs a lot of improvement (search is hard!) so if you spot any bugs, let us know and we’ll make sure we address those.
• We’re on track to open up BingeBooks to any author who wants an author page and wants to have their books on our site. Our best guess is early February. Stay tuned!
Thanks and see you next time! (Next meeting date will be announced in late January.) Questions? Ask away!
JD Lasica
Chief Book Nerd
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