A talk by Viktor Grant

If You Cannot Reach Your Members, You Have No Community

A community is the people you can reach.

If you cannot reach them, what do you have?

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If you cannot talk with your members, what good is a community?
A list of names is not a community.

Most groups reach their people through a free inbox
or a social network. Someone else runs both.

They pay their bills with ads. They decide what shows up,
what goes to a folder, and what is never seen.

You can write the best message of your year.
Whether it arrives is not up to you.

So a community needs a channel it owns.
A bond that either side can end, and no one else can.

Earthgrid builds that: a message link that does not change,
on an address you own, with a room to meet in.

The person next to you Staying in touch in the room, on a channel no one else runs.

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What People Leave With

A test: send one message to your whole group. Count who saw it.
A list of the places your members can only be reached by permission.
One channel you own, and a first step to move people onto it.

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Questions I Would Bring

How many of your members saw your last message?
Who decides whether your people hear from you?
What would you say to them if you knew it would arrive?

A good question beats a prepared speech.

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I ask who controls the path between you and your members.

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Everyone writes the one message they wish they could be sure arrives.

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