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Silvia Coco's avatar

Everything you write about brings so much value, and you write in such an easy to read, flowing way. Thank you for all the soul you pour over here in much more than 300 characters ❤️

I love these two tools - the drawing was so fun and will work so well for a workshop experience I’m building about letting go of perfection to feel creatively unstuck. I loved the sense of connection it gave to the other readers, and actually how expressive these window views were — makes me want to bring my laptop around the world hehe

Togetherletters looks like it’s not yet getting the love it deserves!! Such an amazing concept, I’d love to see it used more 💌 I’ve done some small experiments with snail mail, but it’s hard to keep it up long term and a bit too time intense when you share with more than 3-4 people — this digital collaborative newsletter is going to be my next step! I’m setting up a freelancers accountability group, with a monthly meeting, and this will be the perfect short & sweet way to keep up weekly :)

Thank you, thank you!

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Anamaria Dorgo's avatar

I definitively see this as a potential use case, Silvia. If you give it a go, do let us all here know how it went.

Thank you for the warm words. 💛

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The Odyssey's avatar

Oh how did I miss this experiment! Next time I hope, such a genius approach.

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Anamaria Dorgo's avatar

Oh, you would have loved it!

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Lud Toussaint's avatar

Love those experiments, really inspires me to think deeper on the limitless possibilities for connection on and offline!

It also reminded me of how the scientific community started to organise, with all letters being sent to one person instead of random friend scientist, and the beginning of the peer review process when said person wasn't able to judge if the science was worth publishing in the journal 🙂. https://blog.f1000.com/2020/01/31/a-brief-history-of-peer-review/#:~:text=The%20modern%20peer%20review%20process,competition%20for%20journal%20space%20occurred.

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Anamaria Dorgo's avatar

This is so interesting, I had no idea. Thanks for sharing the link, Lud!

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Maxine's avatar

What a genius experiment! Writing something and not waiting for likes or comments - that sounds so freeing. If you ever start a new group of this experiment, please count me in.

I particularly love the idea of using this for onboarding cohorts. I'm thinking how this could also be used with teachers, at the end of the week, sharing the highs and lows of their week - being able to read that they're not alone and to unload in such a safe space. Anyway, I'm obsessed with this experiment 😅 I'm curious how you coordinated it all - did you use a program that did it all automatically? or were you putting together the Sunday email yourself?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiments with us Anamaria !

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Anamaria Dorgo's avatar

Uhhh, fab idea with the highs and lows of the week!💡

I might start a new one, but I haven't yet decided. I will point you if I do.

As for the process, I create a survey to collect the emails of the 30 volunteers. Then I used TogetherLetters to create the group and invite everyone. You decide when the update email goes out, when the group letter goes out, and also how often this should happen (weekly, every two weeks, once x months, etc).

The platform does everything else for you; it's really cool!

https://www.togetherletters.com/

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Maxine's avatar

Ok - this platform has made me even more obsessed now! Wow the possibilities are endless. What a beautiful way to stay in touch with friends and family while living away from home! *runs away to make lists of all the different ways I will be using this*

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Stefy Bolaños's avatar

LOVE this (as always) 🙌

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