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Three degrees, community and texts
The Purpose Team
July 12, 2022
The Purpose issue #5 🔥🔥
How-do and welcome, join us as we present bitesize ideas, business trends and weird digital stuff for charities, social enterprises, b-corps and purpose driven people and organisations of all shapes and sizes.
Spending the next 2.6 minutes reading The Purpose is guaranteed to make your brain grow, feel more purposeful and appear at least 12% better-looking to 87% of the population*
Let's gooooo 👇 (or LFG as the kids say)
In this issue
🏖️ Find out where to get free degrees
🔗 Find out how to build a community for your org
😎 Pertinent tweet of the day
🌐 Web 3.0 dictionary series to make you smarter
🌶️ Hot quick takes
🤩 Accounts you should follow
Todays useful product #1 - The free degrees
No, this isn't The Purpose reverting back to our earlier incarnation of badly pronoucing pop bands (not this time anyway)
Much more interestingly, these free degrees are from our friends over at Product Hunt - it made product of the day this week. It's a new platform called Borderless - who have built a community-driven product where anyone can discover fully-funded opportunities to study abroad.
It's a narrative-based plaform centred on people's stories of how they applied, got through, created opportunties or jobs and runs across countries and undergrad post-grad, PHD and some career opportunties. There's a good variety of different requirements, approaches and successes, with some useful insider knowledge on what worked and what didnt. Handy
Find out more here
Todays useful free product #2 - Scaling a community
Building a community is an important part of any people-driven organisation. Having supporters, funders, donators, non-execs, professionals all coming together around a common goal or purpose is one of the strongest 'moats' to based your org around
It gives you a strategic advantage, as you can get strong feedback loop, have ready-made audience to test new products or services and can uncover hidden opportunities - partnerships for example. It's also useful to have an audience you can both broadcast to (newsletters, social, live events) as well as co-ordinate campaing planning around for new initiatives.
Typical examples might be
Your org's facebook group - or a larger subject-driven sector you work within (health, employee wellness, addiction, remote working)
Discord community of interested people
Podcast community based on your subject matter expertise
Meetup or live event community
Telegram, Whatsapp or messenger community
Community Masters is a free, comprehensive guide guide to building communities, they've scale up a Discord server to 50k+ and an app to 120k in the community. Well worth a look for anyone looking to build a community
Grab it here;
Tweets to know about today
Love Island - ratings 👀 👀
See more here;
Web 3.0 dictionary 101 for non-techies
Look sharp when you get asked about the metaverse/crypto/NFTs in your next meeting
DYOR- (Do Your Own Research)- So this phrase is used to remind people to conduct their own investigation into a asset, usually Crypto before investing in it. The world of Cyrpto can get pretty wild, with massive swings, wins or losses quite commonplace.
This year it's been mainly losses (on the cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, rather than the blockchainn technology underpinning the whole thing -but anyway the phrase is etremely pertinent now)
With trading apps such as RobinHood, Coinbase and Binance all being easy enough for the casual user to begin day trading (known in some circles as outright gambling) DYOR is often used as a catchall to be watchful out there - and obviously a big shiny red button that says don't put your savings/money you can't lose/your organisations funding for 2023 into anything you don't undertand or could lose 100% of overnight. Please.
DYOR indeed
Know the lingo, know the codes
Quick takes
⏩ With Bojo gone, is levelling up at risk
⏩ Get social and answer some of these questions
⏩ What's the cost of capital, find out here
Small, purpose-driven organisations you should follow.
Show some love to these small orgs, all doing great work across diverse areas of good - from human rights to mental health. Hit them up below to follow;
🚀 @Rights_Real Making Rights Real is a grassroots human rights organisation for Scotland.
🚀 @TheWPPUK Nottingham's Leading Youth Mental Health Charity
🚀 @OutThereFamily A Trafford based charity offering support to families and children across Greater Manchester to alleviate some of the impact of having a loved one in prison
Let us know how we're doing, you lovely people
