Toby Tremlett🔹
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Hello! I'm Toby. I'm Content Manager at CEA. I work with the Online Team to make sure the Forum is a great place to discuss doing the most good we can. You'll see me posting a lot, authoring the EA Newsletter and curating Forum Digests, making moderator comments and decisions, and more.
Before working at CEA, I studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and worked for a couple of years on a range of writing and editing projects within the EA space. Recently I helped run the Amplify Creative Grants program, to encourage more impactful podcasting and YouTube projects. You can find a bit of my own creative output on my blog, and my podcast feed.
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Reach out to me if you're worried about your first post, want to double check Forum norms, or are confused or curious about anything relating to the EA Forum.
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Hey! I'm the current staff-member working on the EA Newsletter - and I'm currently working on the EA Newsletter improvement project we didn't have time for before. So far this has been:
- Making the EA Newsletter sign-up box more prominent in a few places (EA.org and CEA.org) + adding a link to the EA reddit side-panel (surprisingly big community).
- Making the sign-up flow single-opt-in.
- Designing better metrics to track impact and growth.
- Re-writing the intro email campaign people get when they sign up and A/B testing it - this started recently so no new findings yet, but we should have info to improve it at the end of the month.
The next step is more seriously thinking about marketing, considering advertising it, integrating it more with other CEA touchpoints etc... Stay tuned.
Also, I always welcome any suggestions for low-hanging fruit in Newsletter marketing (I'm sure there is a lot of this), as well as general feedback on the Newsletter itself.
Hey Antony!
Do you know about High Impact Engineers? Also, welcome to the Forum! I'm here if you have any questions,
Toby (Content Manager for the EA Forum)
For those among us who want to get straight back to business - I've tagged (I think) all the april fools posts, so you can now filter them out of your frontpage if you prefer by adding the "April Fools' Day" tag under the "Customize feed" button at the top of the frontpage, and changing the filter to hidden.
Thanks for making this thread!
So much to be grateful for. One thing that often brings me joy is the fantastic content that people write for the Forum, even when it benefits the community far more than it benefits them. There are definitely personal gains to be had by writing on the Forum, but a lot of great work is done from a position of altruism as well. I get a lot of job satisfaction from seeing great discussion on the Forum, whether it's during an event or just a random week. Maybe this is a bit too generic - but I think the quantity of great content on this Forum is kind of ridiculous when you zoom out a bit, and I won't stop being grateful for it (and looking the gifthorse straight in the mouth by trying to get more).
Thanks for giving feedback! I looked at this particular quick take again before April Fool's to make sure we'd fixed the issue. Thanks to @JP Addison🔸 for writing the code to make the tags visible.