Re: Individual owner backgrounds and information
Reply #1 –
Darrell, when I was doing the profile pages, for those who put very little info, it was almost always about privacy, which I'm sure we all totally understand and respect. For example, when I sent out requests for personal pictures I could use on the site, I'd get about half the GMs to send pics right away. I'd wait a week or so, then send out a reminder. I'd get a couple more pics, and a few emails explaining they'd rather not, due to privacy. And I'd sometimes not get any responses, but those GMs were always very responsive in other items, so I chalked that up to privacy reasons as well.
The 20 questions thing had near 100% participation, so that was kinda cool. I just googled "ice breaker questions" and chose from there, then added baseball related questions (Did you play? What position? Favorite pro team? Favorite ballpark? etc). If I had to do it all over again, I'd shorten the number of questions and create 20x5 tables (maybe 2 or 3) with the GM names listed vertically along the left side, and 5 questions along the top horizontally, with GM responses in the squares, just so I could read all the answers on one page and compare them to other GMs. Maybe 5 baseball related questions, 5 family/work related questions (job, wife/kids, hobbies), and 5 "just for fun" questions (favorite food, actor, vacation spot).