Notes From Bushra's Challenge | When a Simple Task Creates Connection
I've been participating in Bushra Azhar's challenge, and something interesting happened.
One of our assignments was simple: Visit other builders' posts and vote on their community names.
Easy enough, right?
But I found myself doing more than voting.
I started getting curious about the people behind those names.
Who were they hoping to help?
Why had they chosen that direction?
What were they trying to create?
And conversations started happening.
One builder, Joseph Remington, even shared how he got a little carried away with the voting because he was enjoying discovering and encouraging other builders!
What an interesting observation.
The assignment was about choosing names.
But the experience was also creating connections.
Nobody had to announce a networking event.
We simply had a shared purpose, a reason to visit one another, and an easy way to begin a conversation.
It made me think about our SKOOLME Kinship lens.
Sometimes we work so hard to encourage engagement that we overlook something simpler:
Give people a meaningful reason to notice one another.
Not every connection needs a special event or an elaborate activity.
Sometimes it begins with a vote, a thoughtful question, or someone taking a moment to say, “I see what you're building.”
That's what I'm taking away from this part of Bushra's challenge.
It's something I'm thinking about as we design experiences here in Skoolology, too.
Just wondering...
What's one small thing that has helped people connect naturally inside your community?
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Notes From Bushra's Challenge | When a Simple Task Creates Connection
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