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Notes on Feednet: Newsletters Everywhere for Everything At All Times

Hello,  Have you ever suddenly realized how much you suck at taking your own advice?   A few days ago (or was it years?) I was talking to a volunteer comms person working with an organizing group 'pivoting to digital' in the new pandemic world.   The group felt like they should be running Facebook ads all the time but didn't know how much to spend on it or when/why to make them.  He was trying to get them to think more deeply about what they do and why they do it, then figure out the right digital tools for the job.  I told him he should troll them gently somehow: ask a volunteer, member, or staff person what they knew about the campaign the group wanted to run ads for and see if they even knew about the basic message of the campaign.  If that person had no idea about anything in the campaign (which seemed likely) he could use it to invite the group to re-evaluate their current workflow, beyond the new digital tools.  Ten minutes later, I was talking about my work right now: Chicago Minute Civics, Working 2050, and all of the other learning tools I'm working on.   "I want to do a better job of building them collaboratively, so I'm maybe going to run digital ads to promote submissions." I told him.   He stared at me.   "What?" I asked.  "That's cool... I just didn't know you were doing any of this at all..."   whoops.   So now that 5 Minute Speech Coach's final episode is out in the world, these emails are evolving.  I promised my friend, who is the world's most deceptively mild mannered Aries, that I would be judicious in my links, because she "truly detests newsletters... from the bottom of my heart. They are 0% convenient."   Here are three things I'm thinking about right now:  + Woebot, a weird CBT AI that is good maybe.   + Working 2050 has a new episode.  + I shaved my head, don't shave your head.

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