On Friday June 15, we launched our first ever Shades of Influence online book club!  Our tagline is ‘Connecting People Through Experiences’ and we really felt strongly that getting a group together to have some robust discussions would do exactly that.  We were not disappointed by our first session and we have not even gotten into the book yet!

The session was focused on introductions and everyone’s reasons for signing up, alongside more housekeeping related items like how the book club would run, how to use the video conferencing tool etc. 

What was most interesting was hearing and seeing all of the comments about this new experience. Many of the participants who spoke up about why they had joined mentioned wanting to get back into reading again or wanting to have real conversations with people.  One person said they wanted to interact with others beyond just clicking the ‘like’ button.  It’s so interesting that while social media and technology occupy integral parts of our lives and keep us connected in ways we have never been before, we still may not feel as connected as we should. 

We at Shades really want to thank all of you who signed up to read ‘The People Factor’ by Van Moody together and we can’t wait to dig into the first chapter with you next week! 

It’s going to be a great summer!

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