In your weekly edinburgh cycle 'digest' (bumper edition 😅): The Search for Political Will; Fundraising Opportunities; Transport & Environment Committee May Meeting Roundup; and @edfoc Kicks Off!
Unsurprising, but good to have explicitly laid out:
"The overall effect of looking at my Substack dashboard is 'wow, Substack is really getting me an audience! If I leave Substack, half of my subscription channel will dry up.' It’s clear that this is the impression other writers, the media, and investors are getting as well, because they praise Substack about it all the time."
I've updated my newsletter! Wherein I informed my subscribers very late about my TCAF digital booth oops, but I also went into a bit more detail about each of the new comics I have for sale!
Just wrote my next "letter from the director" to come out in June. This one is about how this gardening project had me thinking about salmon, trains, justice & Joanna Macy's Great Turning. If that sounds interesting there's time to sign up to receive...https://www.multisolving.org/#newsletter
Blog Update: I have successfully migrated email sending away from ButtonDown Email to a self-hosted Ghost instance. Nothing bad with ButtonDown - simply, Ghost has by far a better editing and publishing experience (and can be self-hosted, of course).
Speaking of newsletters, one reason to migrate was because I want to explore email communication a bit further. So, if newsletters are your thing, be my guest and add your email here: https://preslav.me/subscribe/#via-email I won't spam!
And yes, #WoodMeadows are my new jam. I’ll be writing more about them as a model for human activity creating biodiversity, in a democratic and engaging way. I am, to put it mildly, quite excited.
Tomorrow (May 4th, 2024) is Free Comic Book Day, and one of the freebies this year is Pokémon Adventures: Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire. Would you like one?
Type your post/zip code into this website to see if a participating store is near you!
Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
If you're still using Substack for your newsletter and want to migrate to Ghost, which has announced that it will join the fediverse this year, here's a step-by-step guide by @wes. It covers costs, what you'll need, setting up Mailgun and Cloudflare, how to move over your posts and subscribers and numerous other helpful details.
"#Ghost is also making #ActivityPub a first-class citizen in the subscription flow. When clicking on the Subscribe button on a Ghost #newsletter, you will now be able to subscribe through email or through ActivityPub. This is exciting for several reasons, one being the fact that your email inbox no longer has to be inundated with content that you eventually want to discuss on #socialmedia anyway."