The Spin Sucks Community AMA Featuring Jay Acunzo

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Last week, we launched our first official Spin Sucks Community AMA session featuring Jay Acunzo. Let’s unpack that a bit. First, if you haven’t heard of, or joined, the Spin Sucks Community yet, it’s our free global community made up mostly of communicators—agency, in-house, non-profit, universities, and more. We also have SEO specialists, web developers, content marketers, journalists, professors, videographers, photographers, and small business owners. It’s more than 1,000 members strong. There are several channels you can join—or ignore, and your level of participation is up to you. Furthermore, the community is currently hosted on Slack, so you can set notifications to get only what you want… and lurk in other spots until you decide it’s valuable. The Spin Sucks Community: There’s a Channel for That Want to get feedback on something you’re working on? There is a channel for that. Want to join the virtual water cooler? There is a channel for that.

Have a video for Gin & Topics? There is a channel for that. Want to discuss important trends or news? Yep! There’s a channel for that. Want to find out how great it is to work with me? It’s in there! Above all, you can customize your experience based on what’s most important to and relevant for you. The Spin Sucks Community AMA However, because our community is so strong and engaged, we are constantly Timeshare Owners Email List thinking of new ways to engage with them. New formats to offer. Enter Jay Acunzo. If you’re not familiar with Jay, he’s the founder of Unthinkable Media. You can also check out the Fireside Chat he’s featured in earlier this year. And he’s an author (he just launched his first book, Break the Wheel, on October 1st), podcast host, keynote speaker and all-around nice guy. Don’t Follow Best Practices? His book discusses best practices. Specifically, why we shouldn’t follow them. Really? We shouldn’t? What should we follow instead? Why do they even exist?? Jay clarified a little bit: ultimately, it’s not that best practices suck or that you should 100 percent NOT follow them. They do have their place.



But they’re typically incomplete. Starting points at best. Jay says he (and his new book) can add the most value by helping people understand: What prevents us from making good decisions, Why best practices aren’t those good decisions we seek, and How to find clarity and develop self and situational awareness to make better decisions based on your situation, not the best practice. Cool, right? As a result, we threw him to the proverbial lions. We had questions. He has answers. The Spin Sucks Community AMA with Jay Acunzo The AMA itself (note, this link will bring you directly to the AMA thread in Slack, but you’ll have to join the free community to access it) lasted approximately one hour. It was fun, engaging, and, serendipitously, fell on the same day as National Taco Day, National Vodka Day, and National Poetry Day.