<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hello friends! 👋🏽</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span><div>A few weeks ago I mentioned a strategy to increase participation. In summary, it involves 2 forms of online engagement: <i>Platforms</i> and <i>Community Calls</i>. These are going pretty well - thank you for participating!</div><div><br></div><div>Over the past three weeks I've been involved with many teams who are working on CC events, meetups or Salons. This brought back offline engagement to focus. I previously promised I'd turn my focus to getting more affiliates to meet in person to do awesome things together.</div><div><br></div><div>I haven't fully figured out how to go about this but I'm learning valuable lessons in supporting and working with various chapters to organize their events.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to hear from you: what lessons about hosting in-person events can you share? How would you like me to support you with this?</div><div><br></div><div>I look forward to receiving your responses. (Also, thank you to all the folks to who respond to my weekly emails. I absolutely love hearing from you!)</div><div><br></div><div>*****</div><div><br></div><div>Latin America friends, your on my schedule for outreach this week. Expect to hear from me soon! :)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">'Til next Friday y'all!</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Simeon</div></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br clear="all"></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#999999" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Simeon Oriko </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#999999" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Network Manager, Creative Commons</font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#999999" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Invest in an open future. Support Creative Commons today: <a href="http://bit.ly/19IjSKl" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/19IjSKl</a> </font></div></div></div></div></div>
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