1) Introduction to Content and Marketing at 7 Cups

I would like to be authoring fresh content; general articles/listener-guides/growth path playlists.

I am good at, and has the potential to grow in, contributing valuable content to the community.

@Fristo thank you for sharing your interests!

@SoulfullyAButterfly love this 

@SoulfullyAButterfly Thanks for providing this helpful info. Do students of the CDM coruse need to choose between the 2 focuses, or will we choose at the end of the course?

@FinleyTews Hi Finley, the CDM course does not have any requirement to officially join any of the 2 focuses/teams but we will be working on both aspects as part of this course so you can expect published answers to community questions, as well as fresh articles and some social media contributions too!

@SoulfullyAButterfly 

@SoulfullyAButterfly I'm more interested in doing the writing but honestly, I'll be OK with whatever position I get

I'm more interested in editing existing articles as well as producing the new ones.

The marketing focus actually also sounds great, but unfortunately I'm not interested in getting a personal social media account. If only 7Cups had a system to set up one for me (just like businesses often do), then I'd give it a go. In the meantime, I think this isn't the case and regretfully I have to decline this amazing chance.

@11820Read That's great - expert articles are an important part of ensuring appropriate information!

That makes sense, in a way, Lightship accounts are anonymous and only based on your 7 Cups username with features like DMs turned off.

As part of this course, we will be contributing and learning more about a little about everything, and generally, social media contributions will be shared through the official community accounts, so hopefully, this will not be a concern.

@SoulfullyAButterfly

That sounds cool! 'Cause some time ago I checked the Lightship Project link you've kindly attached above and saw a sentence like, "You are responsible for setting up your own Twitter account." Hopefully your information regarding 7Cups account's would really come true soon!

@11820Read to clarify, that is correct - I understand that you are referring to basic account setup as well. As for what I meant, yes, we can share social media content through the official 7 Cups social accounts which are managed by the admin team (one account per platform).

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Hi, sorry for asking again.

Does that mean during the training program we students will get access to these official accounts? I've just read once again the original post and saw it mentioned that "students of this current course as well as the Content Team will prospectively add to these content and content marketing efforts", and I interpret it that way (we'll get access).

Thank you in advance.

@11820Read no, but I will facilitate the posts getting published when needed.

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Oh I see, thank you for taking time to explain to me.

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Agreed. I'm not a fan of social media, but with all those requirements for team lightship accounts, I find it a lot easier to navigate. It's much less overwhelming.

@SoulfullyAButterfly

I am particularly interested in the Marketing aspect of the website. I am a current Marketing student with background in design and promotion, which I think would enable to give more to our community by focusing on Social media handles and others sorts of promotion.

@KatherrinneP That sounds great! Perhaps you could also help add to 7 Cups with the skills you already have and will hopefully get to learn and practice!

@SoulfullyAButterfly

I’m more interested in the Content focus; listener guides, upcoming growth path playlists, improvement, and Q&A pages. I’m not really into social media as much as I use to be, so the marketing focus would be irrelevant to me. As for the content focus - I believe I would be more suited for it as it fits my expertise and is something that I have wanted to do. I’d be fine with doing both long and short tasks. I often lurk around the site looking at different content. I have been thinking that it would be great if I could help create some content for 7 cups.

@mxmes that is awesome! Reviewing what already exists and what we can do to further contribute towards mental health awareness and support is great - I look forward to your contributions

@SoulfullyAButterfly

I am more interested in content creation than marketing.

@WendinCaring thank you for sharing your interests

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Which current area of the Content or Marketing focus at 7 Cups interests you the most? Please feel welcome to share your reasons.

Outside of this website, I'm really good at original content creation and repurposing my material to suit a specific audience. This includes the use of social media in general.

All of these roles sound fascinating to me, but I think I would lean more towards producing qualifiable and verified content.

@SynSavory Thank you for sharing your interests - it is great that you keep your audience in mind and find it easy to repurpose material, that really helps relate different topics to create multiple articles/content types.

@SoulfullyAButterfly

@SoulfullyAButterfly The area that interests me the most would be the Content Creation on the site, so like Q&A's and making posts, as well as Instagram posts. I believe instagram is a social platform that is one of the biggest and most widely used. So, creating content on there would help a lot of people out

@SoulfullyAButterfly

would like to be a part of team lightship. I want to reach out to people and may be able to support them in some ways

@blissart That is nice, I hope you can apply and contribute to that project too!

@SoulfullyAButterfly

For me it is team lightship that greatly interests me! I did consider joining and contacted the leaders about joining a while ago but unfortunately due to me being pretty inept with technology I am only really good with using the social media site Instagram. I'm hoping they expand the wonderful project to other social media's soon!

@Azalea98 thank you for sharing that! I also hope Lightship can be used to help bring support to other platforms

@SoulfullyAButterfly

I would like to help out on the 7Cups website and improving the mental health guides and maybe creating a new guides for disabilities,since 7cups does not have any that I am aware of, for example learning disabilities.

I have a learning disability by the way, and I am also trained as a Teacher Aide,and I love to look things up on the internet,and learn new things.

The reason,is so the listeners can learn what it is like to have a disability,and how to speak to them,example people first language.

For example,

Instead of a person,with a Handicap, you say A disabled person or a person with a disability or disabilities,ect.

I have never done a guide before,but I am willing to learn how.

@Happy900 Hi Happy, that is wonderful! I really like your idea and the guide could be something we can work out on in the near future

@Happy900
You are so inspiring Happy! Congrats on finishing the course by the way!

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Which current area of the Content or Marketing focus at 7 Cups interests you the most? Please feel welcome to share your reasons.

publishing my own articles content also editing current interests me the most also write my own guides etc

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Although in this course we will be learning a little of everything you mentioned, I am primarily interested in (A): Content Volunteer Team as my primary focus since I enjoy creating, revising and editing content. However, as I progress through the course I may find other areas of interest.

Sun

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Content development:

Writing new listener guides, disability content

Edit some of the mental health guides,you have.

I am open minded to other content development, as well.

The team that currently interests me the most is Team Lightship.

I have graphic design experience which makes me more interested in creating content to be posted to social media. I also like the idea of actively reaching out to Twitter users, because I know from my own Twitter experience that a lot of people use that platform to talk about depression and anxiety and I feel we could reach a good number of new members that way!

I am really interested in editing existing articles and writing new ones, providing good articles for people to read is something I really want to do !I have been writing on my blog too, but I want to expand my horizons by exposure to your platform and give the best content I can!

As an existing member of teamlightship I can safely say that it interests me most as looking for people who may need help is incredibly important!

@electricWhisper3694

That would be fun it would be like research.

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Content. I blog at times, so it feels closer.
I am not so well versed with social media and trends. I find it hard to keep up with updates, status and stuff.