#dispatch2

TL;DR for the week

Meta-tations. Thanks to your feedback from last week’s Host Dispatch, (a) we now have a Host Dispatch tumblr, (b) these will start becoming a bit more grassroots, (c) we’ll start making ways to contribute clearer and most actionable.

More control and communication for your tea times! We replaced automatic reminder emails, added optional phone numbers so you can text attendees, and added a Notes section for each tea time.

Tomorrow, conversations with Dream Teams will start rolling. Join one here — bit.ly/dispatch-2-teams. Help improve, well, everything about the experience of being a host.

Anna Kelsey (LA) inspires hearts around the world in about 14.2 seconds. She’s the host of the week.

Just on the tumblr

Infrequently asked questions. If you’ve been curious about something and have no idea who to ask / when to ask / how to ask / where to ask, go to the comments section here and we’ll start a conversation in a common forum.

Community Spotlight — Host of the Week, Anna Skelsey in LA

I’ve gotten questions from...a lot of you about lots of different things — hosting technique, getting closer to other hosts, TWS’s direction, the big picture, the origins of TWS, learnings across the host community, the point of community events, etc..

There are probably questions that aren’t being asked because they just don’t know where to send them. So...send them here. And see the questions that are being answered here.

Here’s the form. 

This weekend, I’ll be reaching out to everyone who signed up for a team and we’re gonna start rolling on conversations about how we can better bring on hosts, inspire a stronger sense of host community, make TWS better serve everyone in the fam, and on the whole, bring the dream of this organization to reality.

If you want to help with this, put your name down here. And if you wrote your name for something last week, I got your name down already.

Overall, you guys seem to like the Host Dispatch, BUT you’re not trying to read a book. From what y’all shared, you want…

more updates on what’s going on across the host community

clearer and actionable ways to contribute

bite-sized chunk updates, less essays

stories from TWS that’ll make what’s happening more palpable.

So the Host Dispatch will now be a weekly consolidation of updates on this tumblr

To answer your questions before you ask them:

Every relevant URL was taken. I am not creative enough to make up this work of genius. Blame/praise tumblr’s robots.

The tumblr will be updated frequently. The Dispatch will be emailed once a week.

Each post has a comment space. It can serve as place to discuss specific updates.

City fams and hosts will be able to contribute here, so updates can be more decentralized.