For example, you could email people, which works better in spaces like these where pretty much everyone exposes their email address. Engender the conversations you want, the appreciation for their work you value, and the reciprocal relationships that could help you all blossom together.
I like people who put their money where their mouth is.
Today I got an email from Imperfect. They noticed I linked one of their posts in my Junited page and asked me what I think of it.
This was the paragraph that really resonated with me:
Then again, creative expression leaks by nature. Embrace the hands-on and hands-off sharing of your work and others to places and people that you would have never expected. It doesn’t even have to be all that difficult either. Sparking connections, remixes, and more can be as easy as a single contextual comment. Imagine the exciting story you can tell after having done so.
I told them this is why I blog: to share and enable people to share their stuff with me.
Going back to their website to copy this, I read the paragraph quoted above. It’s agency-inducing. It made something click inside me: I make myself available but I don’t reach out. I say I search for “my” people but I expect them to notice and come to me. I don’t stay idle, of course. I put myself out there, link to their stuff, make myself available and approachable, but still… I wait. Months ago I wrote about a text-based community that I want to have: ‘This is not something that I might just land on. This type of community requires someone to build it from the ground up. “Somebody has to, and no one else will.”’
Somebody has to write that first email, and no one else will.
I like people who put their money where their mouth is.
Today I got an email from Imperfect. They noticed I linked one of their posts in my Junited page and asked me what I think of it.
This was the paragraph that really resonated with me:
I told them this is why I blog: to share and enable people to share their stuff with me.
Going back to their website to copy this, I read the paragraph quoted above. It’s agency-inducing. It made something click inside me: I make myself available but I don’t reach out. I say I search for “my” people but I expect them to notice and come to me. I don’t stay idle, of course. I put myself out there, link to their stuff, make myself available and approachable, but still… I wait. Months ago I wrote about a text-based community that I want to have: ‘This is not something that I might just land on. This type of community requires someone to build it from the ground up. “Somebody has to, and no one else will.”’
Somebody has to write that first email, and no one else will.