So we talked Fannish Skills. What did we have to say?
1. So we gain a lot of skills from our fandoms and hobbies. What are ones that you, personally, use on the job to one extent or another?
- 90% – Computer knowledge
- 70% – Culture/Pop culture knowledge
- 60% – Writing/Fanfic/Review/Ranting
- 60% – Technical knowledge (setting up servers, hosting, etc.)
- 50% – Obscure stuff most people would never know
- 50% – Internet skills (setting up web pages, message boards, etc)
- 40% – Market/Business knowledge of geeky business
- 40% – Publishing (web, electronic, or physical)
- 30% – Art/Design/Graphics
- 30% – Creation/Making something
- 20% – Leadership/management of groups
- 10% – Video editing/creation
I realized a few of these were highly specialized (art, video), but still pretty interesting – especially that obscure stuff was rated so high. Maybe this is something to explore . . .
Also, someone had one additional skill "Explaining/translating technical jargon to understandable language" which makes sense.
Next up . . .
2. Which geek/fannish skills do you think "non-fans" and "non-geeks" value and understand the most?
- Technical knowledge (setting up servers, hosting, etc.) – Highly valued
- Internet skills (setting up web pages, message boards, etc) – Highly valued
- Culture/Pop culture knowledge – Valued
- Art/Design/Graphics – Valued
- Publishing (web, electronic, or physical) – Valued
- Video editing/creation – Valued
- Leadership/management of groups – Valued (but trending lower)
- Creation/Making something – "As Valued as Anything Else" but trending high
- Market/Business knowledge of geeky business- "As Valued as Anything Else" but trending high
- Writing/Fanfic/Review/Ranting – Some Value (we were rather split on this)
- Obscure stuff most people would never know – Some Value (yet, note above, we get a lot of use out of it)
There you go – so what do you think?