An online notebook
I sent out a newsletter this morning.
These daily notes are going well, I think, in that I am keeping up with them and it’s really helpful to keep a record of the good stuff I am coming across. But am definitely just posting links, and not really saying much else. I’ll try and fix that – unless, of course, people like the links, and don’t like my wittering.
Design for audiences or topics and tasks? – good stuff from the team in Bristol and always good to see the blogs I host being active!
I’ve started up a new email newsletter, called Digital Digest. If you would like to sign up, just visit digest.digital.
If you’d like to have a look at the sort of thing you’ll be receiving, the first issue is on the web for your viewing pleasure.
I hope you sign up, and find the content useful!
A quick note to say that this weekend I wrote up a newsletter for the first time since late 2014. I scheduled it to be published earlier today.
If you’d like to see what was in it, you can read the web version here.
If that whets your appetite, sign up to get it straight to your inbox here.
Issue 11 of my newsletter was sent out this morning.
You can read it on the web here to see what it’s like.
If you are already getting email alerts for this blog, don’t worry – the newsletter contains completely new content which doesn’t appear here.
If you’d like to sign up, you can do (for free!) at daveslist.io.
Here’s an idea for those wanting to get some engagement going within your organisation. Send some emails.
Actually, let’s be more specific. Send some really good emails.
People are inundated with email at work, and adding to the burden might sound counter-productive. How about sending an email that reduces the burden though?
Since I’ve been publishing daveslist, I’ve had some great feedback from people. Some of it has been commenting on the links I have shared, but most is just conversation, often responding to the brief introductory paragraph, which is often not particularly tech-related, but a brief note about what I’ve been up to.
It strikes me that email is great way to engage with people, when you get the tone and the content right, and it’s a lot easier for people to just hit ‘reply’ to provide a response, rather than visiting a blog post and filling in a comment form, say.
So how about you start an internal email newsletter within your organisation? Maybe do it weekly, on a Friday, and summarise the important stuff that has been going on that week that people really can’t afford to miss. You don’t even need to use a sophisticated newsletter delivery service like MailChimp – to get started just use the BCC field.
This could take the form of links to useful and relevant blog posts and news items online, or an intranet update that people may have missed.
Or, how about you use your email newsletter to curate the best and most important of all the other emails people may have received, and not quite got round to reading? In other words, saving people the bother of having to work out which are the emails they have to read.
Starting an email newsletter for your colleagues to opt-in to might be a great way to start getting your message across – why not give it a go?