The advent of 2018 is the occasion for some changes in Transpolitica.
We’ll be switching to a system of three-monthly cycles, that is, one cycle for each quarter of the year.
At the start of each cycle, a set of priority projects will be agreed and announced. At the end of each cycle, we’ll review progress, and consider what we should learn, both from what went well, and from what went badly.
Priority projects for Q1
You can read the priority projects for Q1 (Jan-Mar 2018) here. In summary, these projects are:
- Assist the launch of the book “Transcending Politics”
- Refresh the Transpolitica website
- Refresh the Transpolitica content on H+Pedia
- Review the Transpolitica project backlog
To give more details about the first of these priorities, support is requested for the following tasks:
- Review the draft content of the book. Make recommendations about any high-impact changes that come to your mind
- Collect endorsements for inclusion in the book, and to help with publicity
- Identify the core messages that should be prominent in descriptions of the book
- Prepare and review slide presentations and videos to draw more attention to the content of the book
- Find opportunities for Transpolitica consultants to speak about the availability of the book.
Progress with “Transcending Politics”
As of today, 7th January 2018, draft content for all the envisioned chapters of the book are now available for online review. The final three chapters to be released for review are:
You can find a list of the section headings for all the chapters of the book here. That link also provides pointers to the Google doc versions of all 13 of the chapters.
If you’ve been thinking in the past that you would like in due course to do some reviewing, now is that time…
If you do take the time to review any of the chapters, the kind of comments I’m mainly interested are:
- If you couldn’t understand parts of what I’ve written
- If you particularly liked specific parts
- If you think I’ve missed out some important lines of reasoning
- If you think there are sections that should be omitted
- If I’ve made some mistakes in the factual content
You can make comments directly in the Google docs.
Remaining steps before publication
Here’s a summary of the steps remaining until the book is published:
- Review the earlier chapters, bringing their content up to date for January 2018
- Find good locations to insert a small number of topics that still need to be covered
- Take account of all comments raised by reviewers
- Strengthen some of the conclusions – by stating them more clearly and forcefully
- Tighten some of the content – removing material that is less important overall
- Collect and include some endorsements, to help with publicity
- Add in an Acknowledgements section and, perhaps some additional start and end material
- Produce some videos or slide presentations to help with publicity
- Release a Kindle e-version of the book
- Fix any significant points raised by the first batch of readers
- Re-release the Kindle e-version (if needed)
- Release a print-on-demand physical version.
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