3rd July 2026
Another week, another weeknotes post that I’m writing against the clock. This time because my dog is pretending to have died of boredom and is in need of a third walk of the day.
The biggest news in my world, is that my work lull is over. I have a new project signed off and in progress, and another one where the client is reviewing the contract. I think I did a better job of riding out this lull and taking advantage of things being quieter than I have done in the past. I had a lot of four-day weeks, worked on some projects I’d been putting off, and relaxed a bit. Having said that, this is still a big relief.
Beyond that, I’m now two-thirds of the way through some facilitation training with Tilt. This has been an excellent refresher for me, and has given me the motivation to be more disciplined with some of my facilitation. There are a few things that I’ve dropped over the years, that I shouldn’t have dropped, and I’ve picked up some new ideas too. I’m looking forward to the final session next week. I’d absolutely recommend the course – Facilitation for Change Makers to any charity pals who want to run better meetings and workshops and collaborations.
I got the survey live for the AI in charity content research project – please, please complete it if you can. I also have some spots left for diary study and interview participants. Recruitment is proving harder for this than I expected. I’ve had a few chats, and it seems like a lot of organisations in the third sector are struggling with participation across events and research at the moment. I know that taking time and focus to complete something like a survey can feel hard to justify (and hard to motivate yourself to do, tbh). But I’m hoping I can still hit a respectable number of responses.
One other little diversion/procrastination project I’ve spent time digging into is content credentials. Ash Mann sent me down this rabbit hole after sharing something about content credentials in his newsletter. I started playing around with a very simple boilerplate to add to my content to explain the provenance: how articles were researched ,drafted, written, edited, fact-checked, and how AI comes into things. Here’s an example for this post:
There’s some schema in the background too, if you’re into that sort of thing. I probably need to go through a few more iterations to get it right, and get some user feedback too. I will write about this in more depth if I end up taking it forward.