Comments on: Starting a voluntary discussion group

By: Jeanne Boyarsky

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:45:13 +0000

In reply to Nagaraju. Sorry. It is a group internal to the company.

By: Nagaraju

Nagaraju — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:44:10 +0000

This is awesome ,i would like to attend to .please provide the information to connect to the conversations .

By: Jeanne Boyarsky

Jeanne Boyarsky — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:53:43 +0000

Thanks Kathy! If I had known all this 9 years ago, we would have had a different route to the group too :).

By: Kathy Sierra

Kathy Sierra — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:18:02 +0000

This is awesome. I did the same kind of thing when I was at Sun, starting also as a technical book club, but I made every mistake. If yo had written this post about, oh, 9 years ago, things would have gone better for me ; )

This is all excellent advice. One problem I had was that my expectations were based around my personal interest in certain topics, and was often a little disappointed if others did not Share My Enthusiasm For This Really Crucial Topic. Turned out they felt the same way about me with other topics… I needed to do a better job of recognizing that the group was diverse and had different passions and strengths. I did not work hard enough to see the ways in which everything discussed still fit perfectly within the goals/vision for the group.

Cheers and thanks for this post. (and I just saw the new book you helped with… Huge thanks for that too!)