Why does your community need an email newsletter BLOG Why does your community need an email newsletter? People read email, and the clearer and better your email is, the more people will read it. How often should I email? Minimum? Once a week. Once a week? Won't I annoy people? If you email self-promotional bollox? Yes you will. If your email is something that is not relevant, weird, poorly written, hard to read, a rant or doesn't help people, and is confusing. Yes, definitely. What should you do then? Engaging people Write something that is for YOUR readers; send something useful. In
BLOG How to get your team to stop using endless email threads FOREVER We get it-- you like the idea of less email. Conversations can be concentrated within certain apps (whichever it might be--of course we like Trello ;)), but your team isn’t complying. The email threads continue. And continue. Ad nauseum. How do you get them to ADAPT, already? Fortunately there something truly simple you can do to make them stop the email nonsense forever. In our lifetime, the social skill of setting and maintaining boundaries has been all but lost. This isn’t done by enforcing
BLOG Loomio So I have been getting a bit of flack from people about my no-email post from earlier in the week. I want to explain my position in a little more detail. Tools I work with other people with are: loomio - for open collaborative decision making. Around forty of us make decisions in an open and transparent online environment. Trello / Asana / Basecamp This again is an open and transparent working environment where we can all share files, updates and ideas. In a deliciously short amount of time
