Here are 6 highlights from 2022, the Week 4 edition!

1. Announced Grants Round 13, web3's biggest funding & building event each quarter.

https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1488231821854740481

2. Met with @BenWest to discuss working on the marketing team, then had a public conversation on his background and perspectives with @futurealisha & @lanitrock in our weekly public goods chat!

https://twitter.com/GitcoinDAO/status/1488557425942798338

3. Joined @Loie_Low, @owocki, @DisruptionJoe and a dozen others on the townsquare-stage in Gitcoin's Discord for DAOvibez. http://discord.gg/gitcoin We talked about bringing public goods mainstream & evolving Gitcoin's mission to include all public goods.

https://twitter.com/AnnikaSays/status/1489024132486361138?s=20&t=ELTahHnOLDj4zVZn4qi9Lw

4. Participated in our weekly cross-workstream DAOops meeting, a DAO leadership sync where we propose & discuss topics that impact the entire @GitcoinDAO. One unique challenge we discussed was how to pay IRL/external invoices in a seamless way. No corp credit cards here!

5. Finalized and posted our quarterly marketing budget for review by the Gitcoin stewards, our external governors. Failed at the tldr summary the first time (too long!) but tweaked with some feedback from the inimitable @Sim_Pop

https://t.co/QzZz0LcVmA

6. Wrote & posted some inspirational tweets. Twitter is a priority channel for us. We're looking to grow to 100k followers in the next month or two, which is a super fun goal to work towards! Here was my personal favorite this week:

https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1489290478977617921/photo/1

That's a wrap for this week! Follow progress here as we build a top tier web3 marketing team & public goods funding machine at @GitcoinDAO / @gitcoin. Our fire team includes: @Freddmannen, @B666S, @jahnsson, @CoachJ87, @CoachViriya, @sidcode_ and to you and yours!

Here are 6 highlights from 2022, the Week 4 edition!

Originally published on Twitter on January 28, 2022.

1. Met with several candidates for the Sr. Brand Designer role we're hiring for in the MMM workstream of @GitcoinDAO. We'd love to talk to more folks, so please send great people my way!

   https://angel.co/company/gitcoin/jobs/1868390-senior-marketing-and-brand-designer-gitcoindao

2. Joined the @viamirror team to receive Gitcoin's $WRITE token. Excited to start publishing content and help shape the future of the product! Thank you to @VeronicaSaron, @rafathebuilder, @patrickxrivera & the Mirror team for their ongoing partnership and support of Gitcoin!

3. Participated in a brainstorming session on Gitcoin Grants with @austinbv & the @BuildWithFocus team. There are literally 100s of steps required to run quarterly grants rounds. Gained even more respect for the dozens of humans building the public goods funding machine.

4. Hosted our weekly DAOvibes in Discord, where we had over **230 people** join this week to discuss how we can maintain strong crypto values through market cycles (and other topics!) Join us next week in our Discord!

   https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1486394320106123265

5. Hosted Public Goods are Good via Twitter Spaces where we had @gitcoin's very own @gkimbwala discuss many topics including her experience in web2 vs web3, her family background, and other interesting topics. So proud to work with amazing people like her!

6. Provided feedback on our upcoming Grants Round 13 theme and did a round of revisions with our design team! Can't wait to unveil the look and feel and officially announce the dates early next week!

   That's a wrap for this week! Don't forget to follow progress with me and my fellow marketers @Freddmannen, @B666S, @jahnsson, @CoachJ87 as we build a top tier web3 marketing team & public goods funding machine at @GitcoinDAO & @gitcoin. Peace and love to you and yours!

Here are 6 highlights from 2022, the Week 3 edition!

Originally posted on Twitter on December 21, 2022.

1. Started the week with a day of reflection & rest. Mental health is key to accomplishing our mission & requires proactive attention. As our very own @krrisis puts it, we have to "maintain the maintainers. We honored a fallen national hero:

   https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1483138000460546052

2. Reviewed progress and updates from across the DAO at the Gitcoin Team/Contributor Sync. One key activity we highlighted was distributing POAPs to 2021 DAO contributors. Claimed mine!

3. Debated and adopted proposal at DAOps cross-stream sync. Proposed by FDD lead, @DisruptionJoe , we'll be moving to standardized seasons for budget proposals & our general working cadence within Gitcoin DAO. This is an important step to be more operationally efficient

4. Aligned product & growth marketing on grants funnel. How can we increase our impact? We need more people creating and funding grants! This requires a better understanding of paths to conversion. Aligned on present state and next steps with @nfrgosselin, @jahnsson.

5. Reviewed candidates for brand design role! Thanks @rachaellamy for your recruiting support! Set up time to chat with @alexa_lombardo next week. Still looking for more candidates, role here

6. Discussions & network building with web3 growth leaders. Had great chat with @VeronicaSaron, welcomed @radicle 's very own @nassarhayat and @jorge_selva to our top secret web3 telegram chat. Received $BAE from the inimitable @miakoddda and @ric.eth for some fun token-gated SF parties.

   https://angel.co/company/gitcoin/jobs/1868390-senior-marketing-and-brand-designer-gitcoindao

   That's a wrap for this week! Don't forget to follow progress with me and my fellow marketers @Freddmannen, @B666S, @jahnsson, @CoachJ87 as we build out the marketing workstream at @GitcoinDAO & @gitcoin.

Here are 6 highlights from 2022, the Week 2 edition!

Originally posted on Twitter on December 14, 2022.

1. Created @gitcoin marketing Q1 goals with my fellow MMM leads @Freddmannen , @B666S, @jahnsson, @CoachJ87. Will share next week after we gather feedback. Posted the WIP structure in the governance forum.

2. Played a tiny role in shaping web3 perception! It's not all about dog tokens & making a quick buck, believe you me. We're building a better web together.

   https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1480222082176733184

3. Shined a spotlight on some awesome web3 builders, who are Gitcoin's core source of strength in the broader community. Amazing people like @austingriffith.

   https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1481773329711202305

4. Promoted our brand design lead role in a number of web3 communities including @CryptoSocietyS1, JUMP, @decentraliens.

   https://t.co/mG7ZZu2l3M

5. Brainstormed with @AnnikaSays on the theme for GR13 to help guide the visual design theme. We're liking outdoorsy, greenpill.

6. Built a Twitter list to show how many incredible web3 projects have gotten their start on Gitcoin. @Uniswap, @darkforest_eth, @coincenter, @poapxyz, @BanklessHQ all used Gitcoin grants to raise money & validate their ideas with the community. Follow along here:

   https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1481789651715178497

That's a wrap for this week! Stay tuned for next week's update including our finalized @GitcoinDAO marketing workstream goals. The ask: I would your help to reach our goals. DMs are open if you have any ideas or want to start contributing!

Here are 6 highlights from 2022, the Week 1 edition!

Originally posted on Twitter on January 7, 2022.

1. Onboarded our awesome new growth marketer @jahnsson. He'll develop and implement our growth and demand generation strategy. The challenge? Find the next 100k builders, 10k funders, 1k grants, 100 matching partners.

2. Posted a new role! @gitcoin's marketing team is growing and we're looking for an amazing brand design leader. DM me if you are interested or know someone who might be a great fit!

https://twitter.com/smacmannis/status/1479533651217899521?s=20&t=nZxyo79RrbJu7YY5DfooKg

3.Scored my Q4 OKRs

-> Build foundation of Gitcoin brand & ecosystem position with simple, compelling narrative -> Build strong foundation for a Web3 lean, mean marketing machine -> Connect with Gitcoin community and build web3 knowledge & credibility

4. Created and promoted new content Published and promoted our Year in Review blog post, which recapped Gitcoin's incredible growth in 2021 and gave some 2022 predictions.

https://twitter.com/gitcoin/status/1478435889726377984?s=20&t=nZxyo79RrbJu7YY5DfooKg

5. Led a meeting with the marketing workstream leads. This was our first time catching up after the break. We discussed our current top priorities, outlined key projects & planned a Q1 goal strategy session.

6. Uncovered the mystery shitposter on the Gitcoin Twitter account. Yes, the one and only @owocki! The jury's still out on our "official" brand voice... who feels strongly about punctuation on Twitter?

That's reminds me! We're always looking for amazing contributors at @gitcoin and @GitcoinDAO. Any creative, collaborative, amazing web3 content creators out there want to help us out? My DMs are open!

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(Originally published on Medium on July 9, 2020).