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Your stories

Your stories is a short interview on a Hive profile: 7 questions, one at a time, typed or spoken, with up to 3 follow-ups from Buzz when an answer has more in it.

Buzz turns your answers into stories, opinions and phrases, and you check each one before anything is saved.

From then on Buzz may use what you kept as fact in the posts it writes for that Hive, because it comes from you.

Run the interview

  1. 1. Open your Hive profile and go to Your stories.

  2. 2. Press Start the interview, then Start.

  3. 3. Answer the question by typing, or press the mic and speak.

  4. 4. Press Next, or ⌘Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows), to go on. Skip leaves a question out.

  5. 5. After the last question, press Finish. Buzz reads your answers.

  6. 6. Look over what Buzz took from them and press the × on anything you don't want in your posts.

  7. 7. Press Save to your stories.

The interview opens over the whole window, one question at a time. Back returns to the question before with your answer kept. The Hive strength step Tell Buzz your stories opens the same interview.

The questions

A company Hive is asked about the company. A personal Hive is asked about you.

Company HivePersonal Hive
What does the company do, and who is it for?What do you do, and who do you do it for?
How did the company start?Why did you start?
Which customer win are you proudest of?Which customer do you still think about?
What do you do differently from others in your field?What does your industry get wrong?
What do customers believe before they find you?What gets you fired up?
How do customers describe you?Which phrases do people tease you for?
What would the company never say?What would you never say in a post?

Buzz asks a follow-up only after the questions about a story or an opinion, and only when your answer hints at more. An interview has at most 3, each on its own page after the answer it follows.

Speak your answers

Press the mic in the answer field and talk. Your browser turns the speech into text in the Hive's posting language, and each finished phrase lands in the field, where you can fix it before Next. No recording reaches Buzzmark.

A browser without speech recognition, such as Firefox, shows no mic, and you type instead. If the microphone is blocked, the field says so: allow it for this site in your browser's settings.

What gets saved

Your answers become your story bank, grouped as Stories, What you believe and Words you use. Buzz keeps your words and adds nothing of its own. What you'd never say joins Words to avoid on the same profile, so Buzz never writes it.

Nothing is saved until you press Save to your stories. Items are never edited, only removed: press the trash button beside one on the profile and press again to confirm. A bank holds up to 40 items. Talk to Buzz again runs another interview and adds to it.

Your stories count toward Hive strength: half the step for 1 to 3 items, all of it from 4.

Questions

Can I stop halfway?

Yes. Close the interview and your answers wait: Pick up where you left off brings them back, with Continue or Start over. Reloading the page starts over, because nothing is saved until the end.

Can I choose my own questions?

Not yet. Every interview asks the same 7, plus Buzz's follow-ups.

Will Buzz make up details around my stories?

No. When Buzz reads your answers it keeps your own names, numbers and details and adds none, and you check every item before it's saved.

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