Hei this is a welcome message for the summit participants I guess.
It looks good, perhaps an email version good be a little shortened?
What is Edgeryders?
At Edgeryders we support our members in creating self-sustaining projects that contribute to a common good. We are a not-for-profit organisation that grew out of a project funded by the Council of Europe in 2011. We have built an open online platform that allowed hundreds of individuals to share their experiences of rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown. We also created a methodology and software that helped process and analyse the information provided.
We soon realised that the open platform, methodology and software could be used for other projects too. Over the past eight years, we have 6000 registered users, 70,000 posts and members of our communities have orchestrated some fascinating collaborative projects - from advising cities on how to win the title of European Capitals of Culture to harnessing our network to create training tools for effective remote work.
Why Edgeryders?
When you join Edgeryders you become part of a community where everytime someone shares or posts about a project, like minded peers offer advice or connect it with new information that supports the work of that person. Often it evolves into collaborative projects. We build a deep experience that no small group or individual could reach on their own.
How we work
The process begins when an idea or solution is posted on the platform, sparking discussion.
These conversation starters happen around activities we organise, which include: listening sessions, webinars, online co-creation workshops, person to person support sessions and online hackathons.
After ideas and thoughts have been exchanged, our open source technology makes connections between topics being discussed, the people discussing them, places, projects, solutions and struggles.
When we put this together, patterns start to emerge that help join these ideas and people to each other and to other information, skill and resources.
By the end of the process, our community members have gained a richer knowledge and understanding of the issue they wish to tackle and have a blueprint to put their idea into action.
So, what are you waiting for?
If you are an activist, entrepreneur, changemaker, expert, hacker or doer who thinks they can change something within our society, join the Edgeryders community today by signing up here. Introduce yourself to our community in a New Topic in our Campfire. Who knows how your idea will have evolved a year from now?
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This is something I would send to participants in previous sessions, focusing on the content, rather than on a long expo about edgeryders. I can see why a mix between the two is best though!
Hello Name,
Thanks for registering to the online session which will take place next week, Wednesday 3 June at 17:30 CEST (Brussels time). You will receive the link to the zoom call a day before the event.
Meet Name, my co-host! We are both food entrepreneurs based in Brussels and together we will share information from the Belgian food scene and abroad, and think about how communities can support food projects,
It is super important for us to have an informal, interactive session to hear from all participants. Please take a moment to think about these questions and what you see happening around you:
- what kind of solutions do you see that are being tried? are there interesting success stories amidst struggle?
- is localisation something that can have an actual impact? will it be able to feed the whole table? Is this model based on time and even burning out, higher quality & more involvement scale-able to the whole society?
- new opportunities for food projects and specifically how cooperative structures can help.
*…your own questions or asks for help. *
*Can we ask you to register on the community forum and you leave a comment with your thoughts? The more detail you offer the better! *
Registration: https://communities.edgeryders.eu/
Discussion here:
Looking forward to see you!