Since Sunday, I have received an overwhelming number of messages requesting we do it again.
I am down, under one condition, WE NEED TO HAVE WAY MORE THAN 100 PARTICIPANTS.
Here is how it will work this time:
To make sure we have plenty of time to collect our participants, and also to choose a day most of us will be off work, I have chosen to conduct this experiment on:
FRIDAY JULY 4TH AT 10:00AM PT (1:00PM ET)
Step 1 - Reply to this thread telling me you want to participate, and put your pin # in your message if it is not listed in your profile
Step 2 - Between now and the time of experiment, I will add you as a BB Messenger Friend. MAKE SURE TO REMEMBER ME, RYAN OKRANT. (You wouldn't believe how many people either denied my request or asked me who I was.)
Step 3 - On Friday July 4th at 10:00am Pacific time I will begin to invite people into the convo. (I'm not sure how long it will take to invite everyone, so be patient for your invite) Make sure you have the ability to respond to your alert when I invite you into the convo. Once invited, BE SURE to invite others that you know.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Set your profile to "Quiet" or Change your BB Messenger alert to "None", otherwise you will be in for quite an explosion.
Step 4 - Chat it up, the convo from last Sunday's experiment has been active ever since, even till now.
Step 5 - Come back to this thread sometime after to see the results.
NOTE: I will call it off if it's not looking considerably larger than last time.
THREAD UPDATES
APRIL 1ST 2008 - Already 28 people signed up in the first 24 hours. I know its early for predictions, but I think 100 will happen this time around.
MAY 31ST 2008 - I just added the first batch of participants, not surprisingly, 2 dozen of you had no idea who I was, or even just flat denied my request, if that was you, don't come asking me why you weren't invited on the 4th. If you didn't receive a BB friend request from me, please re-post to this thread telling me that. The following members did not list their pin and therefore were not added:
P.s I just wanted to add. Before inviting someone to the chat conversation make sure you view the participant list to make sure they are not all ready added. It will lock up your phone if more than one person adds you (trust me it happened to me)
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