Sup everyone, 

Dave Bloom here, checkin’ in, writing freeform.

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        <span class="text-p-600 dark:text-p-300">March 25, 2023</span>
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        <span class="soul-field" data-name="content"><p>Sup everyone,&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dave Bloom here, checkin’ in, writing freeform.</p>
<p>It’s late March of 2023, and I’m rebooting my long-ignored newsletter. I have too much good stuff to share with the WordPress community, and I’m tired of holding it all in. I’m a talker, a teacher, a sharer, and I’m done hiding, done being silent.</p>
<p>I’m gonna take a slightly different approach to newslettering: I’m going to write <strong>Issues</strong> on my website, and the campaigns/broadcasts from the actual newsletter software (the emails that subscribers get) will just point to the website issues.</p>
<p>I think this is going to benefit the subscriber, because:</p>
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<li>you can just use the email as a notification, not as an assignment. We’ve all got way too much email, and I’m not interested in giving you more homework or adding a stack of unread ‘read this later’ items to clutter your inbox. All of this information should, and will, be there for you to reference later, and it should be searchable.</li>
<li>I don’t have to compromise the quality of my content (html, embedded video, interactive widgets that teach you stuff and give you ‘a-ha’ moments) because emails don’t render content as well as your web browser does. I’m not a persuasive market-y guy, writing you sales letters–I just want to teach. So I’m inviting you into my lab/classroom when it’s appropriate to do so.</li>
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<p>So, if you subscribe to the Soul Plugins Newsletter, you’re subscribing to be informed of new activity/insights/etc, and you’re encouraged to immediately delete the email after receiving it. Pop in if you have time, or just wait for the next one if you don’t.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Ok, let’s see how this goes.</p>
<p>Dave Bloom</p>
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It’s late March of 2023, and I’m rebooting my long-ignored newsletter. I have too much good stuff to share with the WordPress community, and I’m tired of holding it all in. I’m a talker, a teacher, a sharer, and I’m done hiding, done being silent.

I’m gonna take a slightly different approach to newslettering: I’m going to write Issues on my website, and the campaigns/broadcasts from the actual newsletter software (the emails that subscribers get) will just point to the website issues.

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I think this is going to benefit the subscriber, because:

• you can just use the email as a notification, not as an assignment. We’ve all got way too much email, and I’m not interested in giving you more homework or adding a stack of unread ‘read this later’ items to clutter your inbox. All of this information should, and will, be there for you to reference later, and it should be searchable.
• I don’t have to compromise the quality of my content (html, embedded video, interactive widgets that teach you stuff and give you ‘a-ha’ moments) because emails don’t render content as well as your web browser does. I’m not a persuasive market-y guy, writing you sales letters–I just want to teach. So I’m inviting you into my lab/classroom when it’s appropriate to do so.

So, if you subscribe to the Soul Plugins Newsletter, you’re subscribing to be informed of new activity/insights/etc, and you’re encouraged to immediately delete the email after receiving it. Pop in if you have time, or just wait for the next one if you don’t. 

Ok, let’s see how this goes.

Dave Bloom