Our power to connect and create
Are we selling short our power to create belonging and community? To connect people instead of isolating them? On crafting meaningful communications in a flood of words and images.
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Newsletter Nerd Club
The next Newsletter Nerd Club is on July 8th. Join us to build your thriving community of newsletter nerds. We'll also be centering this conversation around growth (both the how tos and the whys of it).
We're talking newsletters here folks + new jobs and events
Answers to four common questions about setting up and running email newsletters.
What do we want from AI? and 44 new jobs
Is it possible that Democrats have discovered relationship building? Plus: what we can learn from Danish Facebook group leaders.
32 types of newsletters
An email newsletter taxonomy.
Substack is not a strategy, a tactic or even a verb
Five things to think about before you say the word Substack. If you want to have a great newsletter, that is.
Paddle, paddle, paddle!
The case for creation of content, emotion and emotion. More than ever, the content people consume guides their emotions, actions and politics. It also guides donations, loyalty and activism.
Connection is the superpower we need now
Social platforms and our informational spaces are increasingly soulless and overwhelming. But nonprofits can't avoid engaging there. This is a call for connection as a goal, not communication.
Build things together: How to not drown in the seas of distrust
Social platforms no longer build for connection. We shouldn't do the same. How and why organizations can connect people, build together, and grow their power.
Power and impact and 32 new jobs
Teaching people about power and building solidarity with stories about our impact.
Teaching power
We've been so busy doing polling, testing messages and asking for approval that we forgot what power is, how to build it, how to teach people to use it.
From chaos to what, exactly?
Takeaways from the Job Searching: From Chaos to Calm session. And 61 or so new Future Community jobs.
The problem with strategy
Let's talk about strategy and why having one (or many) doesn't seem to help many organizations.
The dangerous politics of layoffs
Mass layoffs are designed to divide and isolate people. It's a dangerous time. Organizations can and must do more to support communities.