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Gaining momentum

simon

Relocated from email

On 25 March 2025 22:55:49 GMT, Natalia Jobson <> wrote:
Hi David, Simon, and everyone in the community.
Apologies for silence, understand the frustration.

May I suggest that we organise regular catch ups, at a designated time?
Initially there might be clashes in diaries, but eventually we’ll get into a habit.

Throughout autumn and winter we had frequent meetings as a group, which has created a positive aura of togetherness - and that’s what attracted me, among other things.

Perhaps we could also consider to supplement the comms via platform / email with using some standard messaging app, like Facebook messenger or WhatsApp?

The platform is great, lots of useful content, good for retaining knowledge.
But using it on a small phone screen - is quite challenging (for me).
I understand that messaging tools have their disadvantages also and require effort to set up and keep it up date.
The advantage though is that pretty much everyone of us has some sort of messaging app which is checked several times a day, so the communication has a better chance of being noticed and actioned (I don’t check my personal email that often, because it’s mostly full of spam).

From my side, again, apologies for not adding much input since February, the March has been tough.
But April is looking brighter. I have started researching on the competing / alternative frameworks to contribute into Key Messages pack. Will target to complete the research by 6 April.

Best regards,
Natalia

On 18 Mar 2025, at 12:41, David Dunning <> wrote:

Hi All
https://big-exams.logicalmodel.net/flarum/public/d/60-funding

Funding discussion…the start

What do you think?
DD

David Dunning

simon

Hi Natalia

If the forum is hard for you to read on a mobile then I’m guessing that you access it using a browser with the site access set to desktop mode?

If you either install the ‘progressive web app’ that is an option when you open the site or you set a browser icon to mobile mode for the big community site you will find its UX like a WhatsApp/ LinkedIn/ Facebook/outlook/ thunderbird/ Gmail look on a mobile phone.
If you turn Push Notifications (back?) on either via PWA or mobile home screen icon then it’s even more like a threaded WhatsApp with A message count and or top screen line alerts

I’m happy to support anyone who needs guidance to become productive.

There is a sequence of curated on boarding post starting here: https://big-exams.logicalmodel.net/flarum/public/d/1-click-here-first-hello-welcome

Number three covers Notifications - see https://big-exams.logicalmodel.net/flarum/public/d/19-creating-a-user-id-profile-and-notifications

Personally I’m all in favour of anything that creates dialogue that facilitates people who have energy to contribut to make BIG impactful 🙂

I think a cadence while there is not momentum would help

I also have experience of communities that use single threaded tools like WhatsApp. Tools that are great for happy banter. trying to co-ordinate >1 workflow Is a nightmare. Next comes suggestion to move to things like Slack/ Trello/Jira/Monday/ Basecamp or even ms-Teams(!yuck¡). Then to have a community!

It strikes me as ironic as well as mildly/ arguably counterproductive…
But once again we’ve got a conversation happening in email (where it’s closed so nobody external can see and join in and that is also another downside to WA/ Telegram like tools.
Yet another downside is that new joiners cannot see any of the discussions before they joined whereas with a forum new joiners and search engines can see what we choose to share. FB has many reasons that many people would wish to steer clear) It would have been ideal if the LinkedIn community had generated a vibe but we can see that LinkedIn algorithms have destroyed the formula that once led to vibrant thematic conversations

That we are busy is a fact of life. as someone once said you can’t change the hours in a day only choose what you do with them. Partly given today’s technologies that is influenced by what notifications we have set on what interfaces we use to apps

So I suggest that we actually have all the infrastructure we need and any changes of infrastructure will not change the challenge that each of us individually faces of familiarisation with a common tool that is more or less ok plus the personal prioritisation to respond to the notifications in a shared space

Can I encourage anybody who is motivated to hit reply all to instead add to this thread
https://big-exams.logicalmodel.net/flarum/public/d/63-gaining-momentum/2

Where you’ll find the conversation to this point ready to be extended 🙂

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