Testers making rackets !

This week, almost every tester I know on Twitter is talking about rackets or making and sharing his own.

I wanted to take a moment to talk about this genious racket.com and how much I enjoyed its format and mostly the interaction between the testing community folks there.

What's a racket ?

• A racket is an audio message that you can create and share immediately without checking it before getting published "which makes it a bit scary at the beginning", the size should be less than 9 or 10 minutes.
• You have your personal dashboard with all rackets you published
• There is a Leaderboard where you can see top ranked rakets

• To start your first racket you need to have your first 10 followers

What could be useful for ?

• Making a racket gives you already the courage to speak in front of public
• It's a way to visualise and share your thoughts in audio format even if you are not familiar with writing blog posts
• It's a way of doing podcast in short format that could be less format
• It's a way to make conversations regarding any topic you want with more participants
• It's also a way to track your personal achievements or learnings or thoughts if you want to make them public and engage your community followers with you when you share them
• You can't comment with text to rackets, only audio messages are an option which is great way to interact with your audience

How can I find the testing folks and connect with them ?

It's really surprising to find such huge number of testers there!

I listen to more than 20 rackets in this week, all of them made by testers. Curious to know developers thoughts about it by the same occasion !

Personal Reflections

Although, I used to blog regularly by "writing text"via emnaayadi.com but I find this racket format is more exciting, it requires less time to write it and to listen to other folk's racket and it's even easier to engage in discussion rather than just comments.

Recently Luke Liu shared a linkedin post about different 5 levels of leveraging and I mentioned that we can add Level 6 to racketers !

Luke observation:

• Level 0 - don't really use LinkedIn at all and thought it's only useful for job seekers
• Level 1 - read interesting and useful post without any engagement
• Level 2 - engage into discussions about an interesting topic
• Level 3 - reshare post alongside own thoughts about the topic
• Level 4 - create original contents regularly
• Level 5 - produce something useful and helpful to others (ultimate goal)

Emna agreeing on that and adding

• Level 6 - take the challenge, be out of your comfort zone and interact with the community to learn from (racket could be an option to reach that level)

Another tester Rodi, find out about it and it seems like he enjoyed the format.

Connect with testers via rackets and my first two rackets :)

I challenge you my linkedin followers to start your own racket and tell us anything about your career that makes you what you are today.

Checkout this thread in the MOT Club about testers's rackets challenge, you can follow me via my racket ID = @emna__ayadi

I joined yesterday, and I created 2 rackets until now

Link to my racket #1: Cooking the best recipe via design patterns !

Link to my racket #2: Me in the world of Software Testing and Conferences! (I wrote about this topic a while ago How I started my public speaking adventure?)

I've been ranked #11 in racket dashboard !