Oddbean new post about login | logout Some of my learned lessons of my voluntary #growNostr job at the Nostr booth at @BitcoinAmsterdam. - Don't count too much on the organisation taking care of nice place with a booth. After the BTC Prague conference their idea was to setup a similar booth. As the Amsterdam conference was getting closer, this setup was already downgraded in certains ways. At the end we just had to deal with a table in the corner of the expo hall besides other companies. This doesn't make sense. There is a community area as well at the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference and to me it's still a big question mark why a grassroots project isn't placed there. So for next year it would be a very nice to have to bring our own booth to the conference. - So many people who don't know Nostr assume you're a company (because we were standing in the area with all the other companies). - Some people assumed Nostr is an NFT. - Some people assumed Nostr uses some blockchain technology. - The concept of there is no single point of truth or a consensus mechanism is sometimes quite hard to understand for some. - Search often doesn't work in clients we used to explain / onboard people. I guess many clients are running a background process indexing content. That content is not avaible immediately when you just downloaded a client. - Using a NFC card with your npub is really use to share it with someone else and start following (thx @Peter and @Constant showing this). There is a huge market opportunity here selling Nostr NFC powered merchandise. - At average it takes around 10-20 minutes to talk with just someone explaining all different Nostr stuff. - Many people already understand why we need Nostr and their questions were in general about how to do certain stuff as they already have a Nostr keypair. - Explaining my own story why I use Nostr seems to resonate. In this story / pitch I explain why Nostr is healthy and serving my digital wellbeing in a positive way. - Helping at the booth is one of the best ways to meet new people. - The livestream just worked, the wifi connection was really good! Thumbs up for that to the organisation! - When explaining Nostr, you often just see the click in someones mind when they just see how different the protocol works compared to other (legacy) platforms we're using. - People like stickers, almost our whole stack is gone now. - People really like @bitpopart his art and style. - We need informational flyers which people can take with them to home. - We need rollup banners. Especially when you just have a table availble you can use as a 'booth'. - We need more (free) Nostr merchandise. - When people see a free power outlet, they will ask you if they can use it to charge their phone. - I need to take notes of people's names who I helped onboarding so I can tag them later on. Tagging me was often a challenge for them (it's the same issue with search) when they took the effort to write an #introduction note. - Nostr needs to attent to a non-Bitcoin event / conference to gather feedback from other type of audiences. I'm curious what you all have learned from this expierence @Goosie @TomekK @Tanja @Arjen @Jeroen ✅ @Sync @Constant
💯 When people see a free power outlet, they will ask you if they can use it to charge their phone. 😂 I’ll post some suggestions and observations
Very disco. Now say it really fast ten times. 🤭
If you have any of these in the US please let me know. I’m interested in bringing my background in communicating important things under difficult circumstances (think fires, EMS, water damage emergencies). EVERY industry needs to be on nostr.
I passed by the booth, was confused and disappointed that it was so different/less present compared to the Prague setup, and continued on my way... 🫣
Great observations/notes 👍 Thank you for your time volunteering to educate! Do you think it would be helpful if I create a QR code that can be printed out on a flyer for people to scan to read this overview with resources that I wrote? https://d.nostr.build/XZv8D9J3w9IbxCuT.pdf
Yes, i do think that is a good idea; I actuall printed out some QR codes, but i forgot about them so they stayed in my backback😅. The pdf is great, but you can also print a qr code containing nostr:<yourNpub>, so they can easily get to your profile (or use NFC), and then you can post a list of accounts you think are usefull to get people bootstrapped. Good luck :)
1 thing irt the pdf; you talk about 'accounts', my personal suggestion would be 'Profile' instead of 'account'. In order to get some distinction from how platforms work. But its not the end of the world :)
Great point! I’ll change that. Thanks.
Haven't been there, but as someone that is new to all this, I agree with all points. Mostly, Nostr needs to be introduced to nonbitcoin places: high schools, universities, many other types of conferences with targeted educational promo material for each conference. Creating a mini book "Nostr for dummies" with easily understandable steps how to set up, how to use it with inspiring manifest "why nostr" and how can be used could do miracles.