My E-Newsletter:
In February 2020, I felt that my master's cohort had grown too disparate to inspire the professional and personal community I'd hoped we could all enjoy together. For one, I didn't know what my peers were achieving.
And so I created The Semi-Weekly Succulent, to bridge the gap in our understanding of—and connection to—one another. It featured new jobs, new publications, and new scholarships, and I distributed it as an email through MailChimp every week. I would grow erratic as I found summer work, and the newsletter would eventually stop. But I have the evidence of my first try.
Its satirical tone came from the official mass emails we received from our school. What if they could be snarky and self-deprecating, instead of very, very important? A few of the newsletter's recipients thanked me for the bleak humor (especially by March and April of 2020, when we were only virtual classmates).
So take a look at my experience sewing together a disparate sort of workplace through digital humor. You'll notice that the newsletter's visual design changed drastically for the May issue, because I learned then that the look of a message needs as much tinkering as its words.
And so I created The Semi-Weekly Succulent, to bridge the gap in our understanding of—and connection to—one another. It featured new jobs, new publications, and new scholarships, and I distributed it as an email through MailChimp every week. I would grow erratic as I found summer work, and the newsletter would eventually stop. But I have the evidence of my first try.
Its satirical tone came from the official mass emails we received from our school. What if they could be snarky and self-deprecating, instead of very, very important? A few of the newsletter's recipients thanked me for the bleak humor (especially by March and April of 2020, when we were only virtual classmates).
So take a look at my experience sewing together a disparate sort of workplace through digital humor. You'll notice that the newsletter's visual design changed drastically for the May issue, because I learned then that the look of a message needs as much tinkering as its words.