Building A Community Team - Newsletters, Series and Conversation Spaces

When LinkedIn invited me to the "Series" pilot I was chuffed because it meant I can use them to separate between my several topics because, while there's intersection between the concepts the "industries" don't overlap. Not only "Banking" vs. "Feature of Work" but, to my surprise "Future of Work" and "Agile" and "People and Leadership" are also, sadly split communities.

I ended up writing this "Chasing Psychological Safety" series -about our journey at PeopleNotTech to put a business ROI number on how happy teams are immensely more valuable- on Mondays;, another series called "The Future is Agile - about my long-standing fetish with #Agile (umbrella term for Agile and agility) on Wednesdays- and even write about FinTech or current Tech trends every Friday on Medium.

It's not clear if I can keep up the same amount of content -I'm sure that got a sigh of relief out of some!- once I get more focused on Book #2 but if I can I find the separation comforting. With all that said, one of the main contentions we all had with the LinkedIn Product was the lack of a central microsite-like space that contains all articles in a series and a Subscribe button. Instead of solving that, LinkedIn is gearing up for another change which will see content delivered differently in the form of a Newsletter but needless to say this messes up my categories.

So here's what we are going to do. I'll write all new content on my own blog and use old-fashioned tags but also use this space here on this particular series, as a Weekly summary of all the other articles.

Of all these series, this here is the most valuable topic not only to me personally or us as a company but really, all of us, so I will keep this space and attempt to "move over" some of my subscribers on Agile and Banking. How awesome would it be if we managed to be all in the same place and learn from a broader range of perspectives anyhow?

Now since there's overlap with the very kind ones of you who have subscribed to both series please forgive the admin posts this week and feel free to ignore me till it's all settled. As long as you're subscribed to this one you won't miss the other ones and come next Monday you'll see the new ones of this week namely "Psychological Safety - Check Yourself" and "Falling In Love With Agile"

This is not just me detailing my content strategy from a card in the "Doing" column but an attempt to bridge between communities that will never be a team that helps humans at work before they stop being disparate and self-involved so as usual, please keep the comments up, even the really irate ones :)

Meanwhile, if you read this for the first time make sure you hit the Subscribe button on the right on both of them just in case no less because my subscribers on here will all get a sizable discount once the PsychologicalSafetyWorks solution and the Emotional Intelligence Trainer launch. Which is right at the end of this sprint! Woo!

Last but not least, behold central link with all the articles in the series so far in one so you can bookmark it: PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY SERIES and THANKS ever so much for being around and changing the future of work.