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Starting off the year 2020 – My Three Words

As I came to work this morning, I began to think about how to start the New Year. Over the Christmas break, I did some listening/reading at Sean McCabe’s website on writing (It All Starts With Writing, podcast episodes 39, 139, 303). I would like to do more writing in 2020. I also listened to an Akimbo episode on “showing your work“. Harold Jarche (Seek-Sense-Share) and Dave Winer (Narrate Your Work) are other views on this topic.

Other thoughts that I had:

  • If you keep doing the same things, you will get the same results
  • Failing to plan means planning to fail

After this reflection, I think the three words I would like to guide my year (following Ron Chester’s example) is – Read Write Help.

 

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  • Andy Sylvester January 3, 2020

    Show notes for this episode – enjoy!

    Today’s topic – Importance of sharing what you know with others, and doing it from your own domain, but still being able to share with other social media

    Blogging – one way
    to do that

    Twitter – lots of
    people post on Twitter, but their posts disappear off the timeline
    and are pretty difficult to find again

    A Twitter user I
    follow posts excellent links and nuggets of information, but if I
    don’t blog about it or save a link to the post, it’s gone

    What do I have to
    share?

    Sacha Chua – No
    Excuses Blogging https://gumroad.com/l/no-excuses-blogging
    and https://sachachua.com/blog/
    (can also view presentation at Slideshow.com and can download PDF
    version there if you have a LinkedIn account)

    Sharing your
    learning

    Stephen Downes –
    How To Be Heard https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=2

    Setting up a RSS
    reader with your interests and use that flow of information to fuel
    your writing

    Sean McCabe – 62
    Topic Ideas
    https://seanwes.com/podcast/117-62-topic-ideas-so-you-never-run-out-of-things-to-write-about/

    Podcast, PDF linked
    from blog post

    Collection of
    prompts (work, passion, process, stories, news)

    Me – My post on
    writing in general (mentions Harold Jarche and Dave Winer narrating
    work)
    http://andysylvester.com/2020/01/02/starting-off-the-year-2020-my-three-words/

    Learning new things
    and sharing/helping others

    How to share with
    others from your site?

    Webmentions protocol
    and Bridgy Web service

    Webmentions – A
    way to respond to posts on other sites (post a reply/comment on your
    site, comment is broadcast to the other site (if it supports
    Webmention protocol)

    Chris Aldrich has a
    terrific explainer on webmentions
    (https://boffosocko.com/2018/07/19/webmentions-enabling-better-communication-on-the-internet-2/
    )

    Specification:
    https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/

    Editor Aaron Parecki
    has a tutorial on creating your first webmention
    (https://aaronparecki.com/2018/06/30/11/your-first-webmention
    )

    I have a early video
    on installing the Webmention plugin for WordPress
    http://andysylvester.com/2014/01/27/working-with-webmention-video/

    Bridgy
    https://brid.gy/ connects
    your web site to social media.
    Likes,
    retweets, mentions, cross-posting

    Supports
    Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Github, Mastadon

    https://brid.gy/about#webmentions
    from the About page,
    talks about being able to post to other social media sites using
    Webmention

    Examples

    Chris
    Aldrich presentation to his WordPress blog and reposted to Twitter
    https://boffosocko.com/tag/pressedconf20/

    Chris
    Aldrich replies on his site https://boffosocko.com/kind/reply/

    Call
    for questions from listeners on this episode

    Question
    for John Philpin

    How
    does the concept of cooperatives or worker-owned business fit into
    the People First framework? Is it something that could be applied
    across the economy, or is it better for certain types of industries?
    Would like to hear your thoughts on that topic, have included some
    recent links for context.

    Cleveland
    Model: How Evergreen Cooperatives Are Building Community Wealth

    https://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth

    The
    Preston Model: How Preston in the UK Takes Lessons from Cleveland

    https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/apr/11/preston-cleveland-model-lessons-recovery-rust-belt

    Mondragon
    Cooperatives

    https://www.theguardian.com/social-enterprise-network/2012/mar/12/cooperatives-spain-mondragon

    Looking
    at Mondragon Through a Critical Lens

    https://medium.com/fifty-by-fifty/mondragon-through-a-critical-lens-b29de8c6049