Promo Language
Alan Webb
Sarah Press also requested promo language for helping advertise all of the new citizen circles we are launching through the P2PU School of Social Innovation this month. Here is something you can use or riff off of for your own needs. If you want to organize a "launch party" for participants to meet other citizen circle participants, form groups, join courses, or propose their own new citizen circles, you are welcome to do that as well.
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Are you looking to make a difference in your community and the world? Are you interested in developing the skills necessary to do so? Citizen Circles is a movement of friends, classmates, and colleagues who set out to improve the world by designing classes to improve their own knowledge, confidence, skills, and competencies for change-making.
Much like book clubs, citizen circles meet for several weeks and discuss pressing questions on topics like their local school system or socially responsible business. But citizen circles also act, using their collective knowledge to do positive work in their communities and build their competencies like creativity and leadership.
Citizen circles, with participants signing up from all around the world, are starting January 26th as part of the new P2PU School of Social Innovation:
- Exploring Creativity as a Vehicle for Changemaking
- Women as Social Innovators
- Conflict Resolution in the Community
- Sustainability Studio
- Local Open Government Innovation
- Education Politics in America
- and more!
To sign up for a citizen circle, or create your own citizen circle, please visit the P2PU School of Social Innovation at www.P2PU.org/SoSI or email cocr...@citizencircles.com.
Sarah Press
Hi Alan,
Thanks for the promo language - this is hugely helpful. I used your language to create this draft email to send the CommuniTeach community of ~1100 people or so about the workshops. Can you review and make sure it all sounds good and jives with the P2PU process? I can email this today and then write a slightly different version to do outreach to some sister communities through MidCoast Free School, StartingBloc, Chicago Green Drinks, Twitter, etc. Given the time is short, I probably won't be able to do a full fledged launch party, but would like to organize something a bit bigger for the next set of courses after we see how this one goes.
Please let me know when you get a chance. Excited to start getting the word out!
Cheers,
Sarah
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Subject: Upcoming social innovation workshops through P2PU and CommuniTeach
Hi everyone,
Are you looking to make a difference in your community and the world? Are you interested in developing the skills necessary to do so? Citizen Circles is a movement of friends, classmates, and colleagues who set out to improve the world by designing classes to improve their own knowledge, confidence, skills, and competencies for change-making and meeting in person to discuss these pressing issues and use their collective knowledge to do positive work in their communities.
Citizen circles, with participants signing up from all around the world, are starting January 26th as part of the new P2PU School of Social Innovation. CommuniTeach is partnering with the Citizen Circles to organize local citizen circles in Chicago and Pittsburgh so that our community can find other local folks to take these workshops. You can view the full list of classes here: http://p2pu.org/sosi .
I have just created a workshop on CommuniTeach for the Women as Social Innovators Citizen Circle that I plan to participate in. Please RSVP now if you'd like to join that class! If you are interested in participating in one of the other classes, please feel free to either email me at sa...@communiteach.com (Chicago) or b...@communiteach.com (Pittsburgh) and we will help you find a location and get the word out about your citizen circle. You will need to sign up on both CommuniTeach and on P2PU to participate in our local citizen circle. Let me know if you have any questions!
Thanks,
Sarah
Sarah Press also requested promo language for helping advertise all of the new citizen circles we are launching through the P2PU School of Social Innovation this month. Here is something you can use or riff off of for your own needs. If you want to organize a "launch party" for participants to meet other citizen circle participants, form groups, join courses, or propose their own new citizen circles, you are welcome to do that as well.
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Are you looking to make a difference in your community and the world? Are you interested in developing the skills necessary to do so? Citizen Circles is a movement of friends, classmates, and colleagues who set out to improve the world by designing classes to improve their own knowledge, confidence, skills, and competencies for change-making.
Much like book clubs, citizen circles meet for several weeks and discuss pressing questions on topics like their local school system or socially responsible business. But citizen circles also act, using their collective knowledge to do positive work in their communities and build their competencies like creativity and leadership.
Citizen circles, with participants signing up from all around the world, are starting January 26th as part of the new P2PU School of Social Innovation. We are working on conjunction with CommuniTeac
- Exploring Creativity as a Vehicle for Changemaking
- Women as Social Innovators
- Conflict Resolution in the Community
- Sustainability Studio
- Local Open Government Innovation
- Education Politics in America
- and more!
To sign up for a citizen circle, or create your own citizen circle, please visit the P2PU School of Social Innovation at www.P2PU.org/SoSI or email cocr...@citizencircles.com.
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Sarah Press
Co-founder
CommuniTeach
http://communiteach.com
Alan Webb
Laura White
Sarah Press
I am actually not a member of StartingBloc, so my knowledge of the organization is limited to the local Chicago group and I'm not sure who to reach out to for broader outreach. If you could reach out to them for this set of classes that'd be great since you're a more official Citizen Circle representative. Is that ok with you?
But I'd love to get more involved in teacher outreach and class promotion for the next set of courses - I think I saw somewehre that those will be in April? Do you have a shared google spreadsheet or other source for resources that shows all the folks you reach out to for Citizen Circle promotion? It sounds like you already have a pretty extensive network, but I'd be happy to help brainstorm additional organizations as well as help with the project plan for who is responsible for each contact, what the timeline should look like, etc. Let me know what efforts are already underway and how I can best plug in and help!
And yeah, excited again for your WASI course! 5 people have signed up so far for my Chicago one, and one person from Pittsburgh (the other current CommuniTeach city) wants to create one there. There's also been interest in the Education Reform in America one, so once I'm approved for that course and get a few questions answered I will start promoting that too. Good stuff!
Cheers,
Sarah