It's been so quiet lately - what is happening with Cole's Notes and The Real Cole Cooper?

Well, here I am again—wrestling with my inbox! I’m currently staring down about 2,700 emails spread across four different accounts, so it’s high time for a digital spring cleaning. To make things a whole lot simpler going forward, I’m streamlining how we stay in touch. If you’re reaching out about Cole’s Notes or my upcoming Substack pieces, you can find me right here at cole.cooper@gmail.com.

For professional networking, my LinkedIn is still tied to coleman.cooper@outlook.com, and for everyday personal stuff on social media, I'm using my iCloud and Twitter/X accounts (x.com/colecoop).

If that sounds like a lot of moving parts, don't worry—I put together a quick video to walk you through what I'm building for the new setup, which you can watch right below this post!

It's mainly I've been fighting the spam,junk mail and privacy thing. I'm finding I'm missing important emails and most folks are contacting me via Facebook these days - but I find myself trying to cut down and streamline things.  So the answer is to build a CMS system that will help me manage the email, my social media and the firehose of stuff coming my way through Facebook, RSS feeds, YouTube, et cetera, et cetera. Plus the problem with Gmail sending other folks email to my inbox plugging it up.

 

Also See Will the Real Cole Cooper please stand up?












Enter - The Single Pain of Glass

The goal of the "Single Pane of Glass" is to eliminate chaos by creating a unified workspace where research, editing, and publishing coexist. By centralizing these functions, as an independent journalist I can move from being "scattered" to "streamlined," operating Cole's Notes with the technical efficiency of a full newsroom.

Links to social media locations and upcoming publications I will be contributing to - check them out



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