Nuggets Of Wisdom

Boy, the Nugget winners were busy this week! It took some fancy maneuvering, but I was able to track one of them down and get a brief interview. Once she caught her breath, frogdropping was only too happy to help spread the Nugget love! If you haven't already seen it, go read frogdropping's hub, and congratulate her on a hub well written!


Now here she is, in all of her dragon loving glory.

B.T.: Now that you've been around Hubpages for a while, what are your impressions of the community?

fd: I’ve been a member of HubPages around a month now but my impressions of the community are that it’s a bit like moving to a new town or area – and the neighbourhood is friendly. You know how it works: new people arrive, unsure what the local amenities are like, feeling a bit lost, uncertain of how or where they fit in. The new arrivals interact – ask for help and guidance, some even just stand up and shout ‘hey! I’m new here … hello!’ and hubbers respond. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from – or even what you you’ve come to HubPages for – the hubbers are a friendly group of people. I’d recommend anyone that reads this, that may be considering joining, to do just that.

B.T.: What did you think when you saw that your hub was in the running for genuine Nugget status?

fd: Truthfully? I thought that perhaps the Hub team were having little moment of madness! I mean – the hub that was chosen is about a Dragon – called Kevin. Hardly what I’d have expected to be seen in the running for a Hubnugget wannabe! I’d voted for Hubnuggets - previous to the week I was chosen. I hadn’t read anything quite as ridiculous as mine … . Initially – I thought it was a joke. When I realised it was genuine, I remember thinking “well … that just proves that writing’s very subjective. Individual tastes and all that’. In all, it was a lovely surprise.

B.T.: How did you promote your hub? Did you tell friends and family? Did you tweet it? Facebook it? Future Nuggeteers are dying to know!

fd: Hardly any. I don’t do Facebook, am notoriously useless with Twitter and my family isn’t aware that I write on HubPages. Then, a fellow Hubnugget wannabe – livewithrichard - read my chosen hub and left the following comment “My hub was nominated too this week but I voted for yours …” His comment made me decide that I’d rather become a Hubnugget due to internal voting. So – no mystery. No words of wisdom. No promotion. Sorry!

B.T.: Did you gain some new fans throughout the course of the voting, or after the newsletter arrived?

fd: I did gain some new fans that week but I truthfully don’t know if it was a direct consequence of being a Hubnugget or not. However – let’s face it, being a Hubnugget wannabe is a bit like being given free advertising. It was hardly going to be detrimental now, was it?! I’m pretty sure that some of those that joined my fan club did so due to the Hubnuggets exposure. In my opinion, being a wannabe can only be a positive!

B.T.: I've heard a couple of people say that the HubNugget contest is lame. How would you respond to that? Nicely, please. This is a family blog.

fd: First – having been a Hubnugget, I can say with honesty that the concept is far from lame. If there is anything that is lame about it, it’s the fact that many hubbers don’t participate. I’m unsure as to why. There’s simply thousands of hubbers on the site. I’m aware that there’s only a percentage that regularly interact around the site but it’s a lot more than a hundred or so. Hubnuggets is a great idea – and would work far better if more hubbers participated. It’s a leg-up for new hubbers. And that’s got to be a good thing.





You've got that right, frogdropping! We think that acknowledging and encouraging the talented newcomers is definitely a good thing. And the response from the winners, so far, has been overwhelmingly positive!





You must be anxious to get back to Kevin , so I'll jus shake your hand...uh...flipper, and congratulate you again! Now you had best be getting along. Kevin's looking pretty hungry. I sure hope he doesn't eat jackalopes!