If you are reading this you are probably already thinking, ‘OMG’!

Actually, it’s not a horror story, yet. In fact, it’s been a wonderful experience and here’s why …

Background

I’m a marketing professional working in the Channel Partner and Alliance space across multiple ecosystems in hi-tech. My community includes senior professionals from the likes of Google, Salesforce, AWS, IBM … you get the picture.

I am a ‘newbie’ to this community, well, at least I thought I was until I met everyone else and then realised that apart from legends such as Mike Nevin, John McArdle, Barry Flaherty and the award-winning Jay McBay … most of my peers in this space have been here for less than the five years I have dedicated to the sector.

The need

I’m a ‘connector’. Or, as Malcolm Gladwell would say, a ‘maven’ (A maven (also mavin) is a trusted expert in a particular field, who seeks to pass timely and relevant knowledge on to others in the respective field), Wikipedia.

So I’m always looking for tools to help me help others. Why? It’s instinct. It’s what I do. It’s who I am.

But this isn’t about ‘me’, this is about ‘you’. Or more precisely, about ‘Clubhouse’.

The how

So, having totally ignored a conversation in my LinkedIn group some weeks ago about this ‘thing’ called ‘Clubhouse’, I went on to create my first Mighty Network account and was looking for a way to invite a specific group of my 15k plus LinkedIn connections, when I had a lightbulb moment and reached back out to Luca Benini who duly obliged by sending me my my all-important Clubhouse invitation.

I immediately signed up, connected my Twitter account and added my Instagram account, then dived into searching for others within my network to follow. Hardly surprisingly, there were very few. Approximately 120 clicks later, I then shared my miserly invitation allocation with 3 connections.

  1. My 22 year old godson who’s just graduated and starting his career in fintech
  2. My friend, marketing guru and all round top bloke, PR Smith
  3. Agent Provocateur, powerhouse and leading light in the Age of Human, Steve Cook

Next, I swapped my prearranged zoom call with Paul to my first ever Clubhouse conversation.

Not too unlike previously mentioned adolescent encounters, a few fumbles and misplaced clicks followed before we were both in the full swing of things.

It was easy!

Next

Immediately I saw the power of this incredible communication tool and embarked on setting up my first Clubhouse event.

  1. Click on the calendar symbol
  2. Create ‘my event’
  3. Confirmed date, time, theme and title
  4. Copied link to Google calendar and shared calendar link in The ICE PARTNER MIGHTY NETWORK
  5. At the allocated time, my iPhone alerted me to the opening of my room and I simply clicked on the link and waited only a matter of seconds before guests joined me
  6. Permissions granted for guests to come on stage and we were instantly engaging. Brilliant!

And there you have it. It was quick, uncomplicated and effortless. Long may it continue!

Now tell me, what was it like for you?