Community Building with Twitch and Discord
On my lazy Thursday livestream last week (most Thursdays on my Twitch channel), I was joined by Binary Digit aka Liz to chat about the community her and her partner Keith have built around their respective Twitch channels. You can watch the lightly edited version on my YouTube channel or I'll embed it down below as well.
She described our conversation on her blog post as:
...to talk about building and maintaining a vibrant Twitch community. We delve into experiences of live streaming, discuss the challenges and rewards of managing a Discord community, and share practical tips for setting up a Twitch channel. We talk about the importance of alerts, emotes, and monetization options to enhance a streaming experience as well.
Nailed it. đŸ˜„
Why Livestream When I'm the Podcast Person?
For all the work I do editing client's podcasts, cleaning them up, making them sound better for their listeners—there's something about a conversation with an audience, even if it's just 1 person watching, that is fun to do. Plus I love getting an opportunity to play around with the tech involved in live streaming:
- Ecamm Live on the Mac makes it super easy to just open the app and click "go".
- Messing around and messing up in the Twitch or YouTube Studio dashboard.
- Throwing the finished version into Descript to do a light edit, get a rough transcript, and put together some highlight clips for YouTube Shorts / TikTok
I have to keep reminding myself that I'm doing this for fun, not for Professional Business Reasons. So while more better faster stronger gear and tech would be neat, it's not why. At least not yet.
The bonus has been that all the various fooling around with video editing and live streaming tech has paid off now that this is the year that every podcaster has decided they need a YouTube channel with a video version of their podcast. So in a way, it has been for Professional Business Reasons all along.
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