The Digital Kindness Journal is here!
Also: download the original Digital Kindness e-book for FREE December 6-10!
What we do in digital spaces matters. The things we share and the ways we interact on social media impact what people in our networks perceive about how the world was, is, and can be.
Introducing the Digital Kindness Journal: A year of guided reflections for compassionate social media use designed to help users think through social media attitudes and explore ways of creating a more compassionate digital experience for themselves and others.
Inspired by readers of Digital Kindness: Being Human in a Hyper-Connected World who asked for a journal companion to that book, the Digital Kindness Journal functions as both a supplement and a standalone volume.
The first section contains more than 50 thought-provoking prompts. Most are presented on an unlined 2-page spread so journalers can answer them by writing, drawing, collaging — whatever works!
The middle section provides 30 days (one month) of daily guided digital kindness reflections. It concludes with a template for designing a personal digital kindness plan.
The final section provides 48 weeks of guided digital kindness practice and reflections to solidify habits.
Combined, the sections in the journal guide users through one full year of digital kindness activities and reflections to foster uplifting social media use.
As I’ve written in previous newsletters, this year has been tough for me creatively, so I’m thrilled to have produced something meaningful.
In celebration of the release of this journal and as a gift for everyone who supports my passion for more kind, inclusive, and welcoming digital behavior, I’m making the e-book version of Digital Kindness: Being Human in a Hyper-Connected World FREE for download December 6-10! Please spread the word.
“[T]he way in which each of us chooses to engage with the world, no matter how insignificant it might seem … matters. With each of the choices we make, the words we speak, the actions we take, we are playing a role in either inhibiting or catalyzing the great transition our society needs if we are to bequeath a flourishing world to future generations.”
— Jeremy Lent, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
MISCELLANEA
Have you seen the Max show Our Flag Means Death? I love it for its creativity, inclusion, themes of found family and healing, and for its conscious telling of stories that haven’t been widely told. "Our Flag Means Death has always been historical fiction in the loosest sense, but for many of the writers on the show, the point isn’t to tell a story that’s historically accurate,” says co-producer Zayre Ferrer in a recent Wired article. “It’s to tell one about the people whose stories never got recorded in the first place.” As Ferrer notes in the article, historic swashbuckler stories were mostly “anti-pirate propaganda, written by the colonizers being dispossessed of their stolen goods” and “just another example of the powerful trying to vilify those on the margins.”
For important posts about increasing the visibility of women in tech and the necessity of including more voices in the making the next set of technologies to ensure they are accessible to all, follow Lauren Ingram, Founder of Women of Web3, on LinkedIn and watch her TEDx Talk How to Build a Better Internet. (Thank you to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategist Jo Stansfield for bringing Lauren’s work to my attention via a LinkedIn repost.)
I was proud to see Vulnerable Creatures, the true crime podcast I created and presented with co-creator Matthew Schniper, included on this list of Colorado podcasts worth listening to (curated by Corey Hutchins of Inside the News in Colorado Substack). Podcast description: “A kitten is injured. Christian Breuer, a young autistic man, is the only suspect. His fiancée triggers an animal cruelty investigation, then disappears. Christian faces charges based on a faulty affidavit, compelled into a calloused legal system which has little understanding of and makes no considerations for autism.” Click here to listen on Spotify or find it on your favorite podcast platform.