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Social monarchs, Oats and Minnie Driver
The Purpose Team
September 12, 2022
The Purpose issue # 26🔥
Hello to our new readers this week - and to the next 25 issues. Today we offer up Royal social media approach, meet a Condor and make poor driving puns.
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In this issue
🏖️ A reflection on the Passing of a Monarch
🤼 How the Queen embraced technology over the years
💡 People you should meet
😎 Tweet of the day
🌐 Listening stuff
💰 Jobs-a-go-go
Reflection On The Passing Of A Monarch In The Social Media Era
When Queen Victoria passed away on January 22, 1901, few of her subjects could likely remember a time before she came to the throne. Her reign, which lasted almost 64 years, then the longest in British history, saw the world transformed.
In the passing century, momentus transformation across the world has continued apace (and then some). Along with it, how we communicate get brought into sharp relief.
Although the government - and the Royal Family - have been preparing for this moment for years, anticipating how the news could be quickly announced via TV and radio. What wasn’t likely expected, until relatively recently at least, was how the Internet and social media could also change how word of the queen's passing could be shared.
How the queen embraced technology over the years.
From broadcasting her coronation on TV to sending her first Instagram post. Although the monarchy is known for following tradition, the Queen has embraced technology throughout her reign. These are times that Queen Elizabeth has used technology and changed the way the palace worked with the Internet and broadcast media.
The Queen had first televised coronation in the royal family's history
Queen Elizabeth sent her first email in 1976... WTF
She recorded her annual Christmas message in 3D
She sent her first tweet in 2014
The Queen visited Google headquarters in 2008
Queen Elizabeth made her first Instagram post in March 2022 (sob)
People you should meet: Darren Woodward, Turning Point
Podcasts you should listen to (whilst we sort ours out)
The Charity CEO. Get the latest from the top.
This podcast aims to "inspire, inform and deliver practical insights on the challenges facing charity leaders toda, featuring candid, meaningful conversations that really get beneath the surface of issues"
Latest episodes have included Asthma + Lung UK, Young Trustees Movement and Cancer Research. Have a listen here
Tweet of the day. Who wants to live forever
Appartently a planet has been found where you can live a bit. 50,000 years a bit. Probably enough time to finish all the books I've gotten to page 75 on and abandoned (75 is the guaranteed *scientific number probability of book reading in one sitting at Purpose Towers) What would you do with nearly 50k years? Tweet us at @purposeco - best answer wins something from our filing cabiet, third drawer.
Get all Star Trek here and also for some drama there can be only one
Quick takes, interesting stuff
⏩ Oatly aims to make vintage fashion and veganism cool with ‘Drip dry high’
⏩ As companies become purpose-led, where does that leave charities?
⏩ What are Social Impact Companies and Why Do They Matter?
Every week we showcase small, purpose-driven organisations - give them a follow
Show some love to these small organisations, all doing great work across diverse areas of good - from human rights to mental health. Hit them up below to follow;
🚀 @nptechedu Online technology education events for nonprofit leaders, staff, and volunteers.
🚀 @WmukInfo WMUK is the only charity in the UK focused solely on Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia (WM), a rare type of blood cancer.
🚀 @traversepeople A social purpose consultancy that supports better decision-making through the power of inclusion
Career moves with impact
Summary of role: Our Green Doctors deliver home visits and telephone consultations across Kent, Surrey & Sussex. Consultations are a mix of advice, installation of small practical energy-saving measures such as low energy light bulbs and draft proofing and referring to other health and wellbeing services. We aim to reduce our client’s energy bills and save them money in a variety of ways including providing a bill-switching service.
You will be a practical, people-person with a passion for helping vulnerable people. You must have either knowledge or experience in energy efficiency to provide tailored energy-saving advice, and the ability to adapt your approach to suit our client’s varying needs.
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