Hi friends,
I’m writing this letter mostly as an opportunity to test some of the new site features, get a bit more content up before we push the new site live, and kick off this new thing I’m going to try out. Back in 2021 when I first joined the Broomfield Dems as the Communications Coordinator there was an older and un-updated section on the website with posts from former chairs. When we overturned the site in 2022 and launched the new logo that section went away because it hadn’t been used.
I’m going to add it back, it seems like a better option than sending more emails when there’s stuff to talk about but not necessarily in need of urgent eyes-on or action items. We’ll see. 🙂
If you’re seeing this letter then it means the new site is live, the migration worked, and all the links are functional! And that’s very exciting to look forward to.
But! If you come across anything that is broken, doesn’t look right, goes to the wrong place – don’t hesitate to let us know – website@broomfielddems.org
I have been doing a lot of deep thinking the last couple of years – especially since Twitter stopped being Twitter – about the impact of social media on humanity. I’m an early adopter on most tech, my personal email address has been mine since pretty much when @gmail became a thing. We got the internet at home in 1994, when I was 14, and I have never stopped using it as an extensive communication tool. But social media has started to weigh on me. Probably because my 15 year old decided he was ready to try Instagram.
And a couple months after I started on this deep introspection I was permanently banned from Instagram and Facebook, my accounts deleted forever. It really clarified and accelerated my musing on socials and how the affect our lives. (I still don’t know for sure what happened. Our best guess based on the reports from the apparent thousands of others this happened to is false reports and a bad and broken AI that no one wants to admit sucks combined to cause a mess. Ah well.)
The result is that the efforts I had been making to lessen the dependency I have on social media got amplified. I seek out people’s actual blogs instead of waiting for the algorithm to show me what it’s been programmed to elevate for profit, these days. And it means that I threw even more of my attention to making our website something more dynamic, more easily up-datable, and more fun. I can’t advocate for disconnecting from social media as much as possible if we don’t have somewhere else for people to find what they’re looking for. And here we are.
If nothing else this is an excuse for me to use my fun images I collect as I wander the internet. I am very tired and I very much wish the world was different. But that’s what we’re doing the work for, yeah?
So I’ll end this ramble of a create-content post with:
Blog I’m enjoying a lot lately – Wil Wheaton, actor, narrator, author (heads up for swearing, if that’s a thing you don’t like 🙂
