Connectioning (Connection Engine) Launch & Strategy Docs!
Starting community calls next week and seeking your input on unifying humanity through a unified messaging campaign and connection hub.
Note: Connection Engine is now Connectioning
Happy news! An MVP is ready! Let’s unite humanity toward coordinated actions while still meeting everyone where they’re at and helping them build and join in community!
High Level Overview Video
Wondering what in the world we are actually doing here? Watch this for the high-level overview of the Connectioning model and flywheel/hub.
And for a deeper dive on the nuts, bolts, and purpose, please dive into this doc. We welcome comments on the doc or directly here in this post (or email me jess@jfriday.com).
Our website and email list are online!
For our website, go to Connectioning.io
And for the newsletter and Substack where we will continue this project (instead of on my personal page), go to Connectioning on Substack. Nothing on the Substack yet, but just detaching CE from me as it is meant to be autonomous and many people help co-create it, so go ahead and Subscribe there if this was the main reason you subscribed to me especially.
Onboarding Video
And here’s the onboarding video for the back end, watch this one if you are thinking of joining in soon and want to get familiar with the systems and mechanics. This is a system we will iterate on, so things will change rapidly over the next weeks/months and this will be updated soon.
Right now it’s 20 minutes, but we’re breaking it down into smaller bite sized pieces, so in the future, you’ll have quick access to only the parts of this system that are relevant to you.
Vision, Strategy, & Lexicon Feedback
Concurrently with launching the actionable (and interoperable) dashboard and app on Coda and community on the Hylo commons to kickstart this flywheel, we are codifying the mission, strategy, and lexicon for Connectioning as a process for connecting humanity interdependently at scale.
Right now, we are reaching out to as many people as possible to get feedback on our vision, strategy and lexicon doc here. We are looking for all feedback, but at this time we primarily want feedback on the lexicon. This is the shared vocabulary we will use to take our 300+ diverse movements building a better world into the public eye, so we want it to be as accessible and inspiring to the average person as possible.
If you know of any experts who could provide valuable insight on this doc, please share it with them now!
We will then invite everyone to a meeting on the 7th of April to discuss all the comments and input, then proceed with what we have collectively decided. (If you have input on how to streamline this process, btw, please comment below and let’s connect!)
Onboarding first members
If you are waiting to be onboarded: thank you for your patience! I got a little sidetracked by all the moving parts. You should be receiving an email from me BY Monday. (And for everyone else, you will also get an invite.)
Our needs
Currently our greatest need is another operations person to work regularly on refining the back end and making sure all the systems interoperate smoothly and onboarding is as easy as possible. It works now but it’s quite clunky since I’m the only one atm!
We are starting meetings next week no matter what. It’s more important to just start even while things are messy, but I could really use help getting all the nuts and bolts in play.
Anyway, if you can commit to help with that for at least 4 weeks while we put enough energy into this system to get it running smoothly, comment or DM or email me.