Serving You Better: 3 Reflections from 2021 and Initiatives for 2022

From Kevin Shepherd: Today I want to take a few minutes to talk about a few themes from our work last year and preview a few initiatives our team at Verdunity has planned for 2022 for us to meet and serve more of you better. First I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have followed us over the past few years, shared our content, and given us feedback. We are SO GRATEFUL for all of you out there working to cultivate strong neighborhoods, communities, and local economies. Pushing past business as usual is really hard work, and it takes special people like you who are willing to think differently, do research, share what you learn with others, try things out, and keep nudging conversations forward. We’re honored to be one of the resources you come to for tips, feedback, and support, so thank you! We take this responsibility seriously and want to make our podcast, email digests, and other content as helpful and engaging as possible. To help us better serve you, we need a couple of things. First, we’d love to hear from you about what you’re struggling with in your role there in your community or organization. What worked and didn’t work for you last year? What are you hoping to try in the year ahead? What specific topics, people, or organizations would you like to hear about and learn from? Let us know in the comments or hit us up on our social feeds on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Second, we’re trying to get a better understanding of who follows Verdunity (or members of our team) on various media and social platforms so that we can make sure we do a better job of sharing information and connecting people across these groups. We’ve created a survey that we’d like our followers to fill out - it’s at verdunity.com/podsurvey Please take just a few minutes to give us some feedback. It really does help us help you. As a thank you for completing the survey, we’ll select a random 15-20 people from the responses we get to receive a 30 minute Zoom consultation with me. We can use this to talk one on one, visit with your city council, planning commission, or neighborhood group - whatever is most helpful for you. So as soon as you’re done reading this or listening to the podcast version, hit that link and let us know a few nuggets that can help us make our podcast and other content work more helpful and meaningful to you.

Go Cultivate!