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Optimism, AI content and Gutenburg

The Purpose Team
July 08, 2022

ThePurpose issue #3 🔥🔥

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In this issue

🤖 Free stuff you can use in your org

😎 The optimism

😀 The best tweet we've seen today

🌐 Web 3 dictionary series to make you smarter

🌶️ Hot quick takes

🤩 Accounts you should follow

Free stuff for your org

Dontcha just love a bargain - even more so, completely free stuff. Digital Charity News have an update today with a handy list of free advice, tools and resources for non-profits

There's a bunch of useful things in there, so fill your boots

Legal advice
IT services
Free space
Expert advice
Policy

Have a look here

https://charitydigital.org.uk/topics/how-to-get-pro-bono-services-10222

The Friday Optimist

We love a bit of optimism of a Friday (long as it's before 4 pm, cos, weekend and that) This regular email from Internet up-and-comer Pack McCormack is a great read

His regular not boring email is also well worth a spin - the long reads are proper in-depth and cover off all sorts of interesting brand, tech and business topics. Meanwhile, from Today's weekly dose of optimism

The Charts that show we're (mainly) living better than our mums and dads

Read it here and the charts;

https://www.notboring.co/p/weekly-dose-of-optimism

https://fullstackeconomics.com/24-charts-that-show-were-mostly-living-better-than-our-parents/

A Tweet that made us laugh

The ire is palpable on this one. Tempted to send a non-form PDF now.

h/t @maxclark

Weird Internet thing of the day

You'll have heard of AI, but perhaps not this completely frivolous use of the new Artificial intelligence model DALL.E. Complely useless and highly addictive, be warned, you can lose hours here. Send us your best helloatpurposycom

Have a look here www.craiyon.com

Web 3.0 dictionary 101 for non-techies: NFTs

Look sharp when you get asked about the metaverse/crypto/web3 in your next meeting

NFT: You've probably heard this one bandied around quite a bit. NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token (catchy, no?) It's basically a certificate or proof that you own a digital item. This can be an original , or one in series of an image, video, tweet, song, anything really.

A lot of the hype with NFTs has been based around digital art, which last year spiralled into some very chunky sums being laid out See this for an example.

Things have cooled off significantly in last few months however, though the underlying blockchain technology has a some interesting use cases for purpose orgs - from donation to collections.

NFTs have become quite the status symbol, with digital assets such as Bored Apes and CryptoPunks creating strong communities, launches and product roadmaps around their assets. Have you considered how this might be useful for your org? you could;