I guess that would depend on the mistakes. Some are inherently more tolerable than others.
Some should not be tolerated (depending on what one classifies as ‘mistakes’). Cheers,
Peter
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I love it too .... But will lovers of this message tolerate other people's mistakes ?
That's the question :)
So for new year let's make a committment to be more tolerant towards what we usually
do not tolerate !
We may well learn something useful along the way ...
Nattes
Le 18.12.23 à 12:43, Florence Devouard a écrit :
Excellent. Love it. Thanks for sharing Z.
Flo
PS: and it works. I opened my wallet a bit ;)
Second time of the year actually... toss a coin guys
Le 18/12/2023 à 00:36, Željko Blaće a écrit :
Very interesting direction in communication to wider audience by acknowledging mistakes
and failures.
I hope for others in the field will follow and extend towards more authentic communication
and we see less PR tricks.
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Subject: We went big in 2023. Here's some of what didn't work:
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Hello Z.,
Guess what? We make mistakes. We’re human!
This year we at Mozilla set out to take on more new initiatives, reach for deeper impact,
and go bigger than ever before. A lot of it went well – but we've also had our fair
share of fails, goofs, oopsies, and dadgummits in 2023. And so we thought, why not share
with our supporters about times where we tried things that didn't work out, or that
went differently than expected, or where we simply screwed up?
We thought you might appreciate transparency and honesty about our work, even when
it's not all sunshine and roses. And yes, at the end of this email, we're going to
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add a donation to Mozilla's end of year fundraising drive – while we won't promise
perfection, we will promise transparency.
So, here’s a highlight of our lowlights and what we learned in 2023:
Mistake #1: Facebook Ads and Privacy Don't Mix
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We wanted to get more people to sign one of our petitions as part of a campaign to get
TikTok to be more transparent about how it shares user data. Our marketing team decided to
try their hand at running ads on Facebook to reach people who might not be in the Mozilla
universe yet.
What went wrong: Mozilla's commitment to user privacy is incompatible with the data
sacrifices required by Meta. Turns out, if you don’t use Meta’s privacy-intrusive
conversion pixel on your website – and you also refuse to give Meta any of your data –
there's little chance of driving actions with their advertising.
Lesson learned: It is impossible to build a movement to hold tech companies accountable
while relying on the tools they want you to use. We'll stick to places that better
represent our values – because that's also where we'll find people who are most
committed to our movement.
Mistake #2: Storms Bring Us Together, But Make Your Backup Plans
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Mozilla Festival – better known as MozFest – is our global gathering of artists,
activists, researchers, policymakers, and technologists. This year's MozFest event in
Nairobi, Kenya focused on issues around a healthy internet and trustworthy AI in Eastern
and Southern Africa.
What went wrong: MozFest got hammered by some truly terrible weather – a hail storm so bad
and so loud it shut down a featured panel conversation; winds too high to walk between
buildings; and a tent even blew over! People gathered together out of necessity and shared
their own awful weather stories. The next day, the sunlight revealed a group of people who
had literally weathered the storm together and built stronger bonds because of it.
Lesson learned: Sometimes the worst storms bring us closer together. But also, always have
backup plans for how to hold your event.
Mistake #3: Worldwide Media Attention Affects Our Website
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When we published our *Privacy Not Included Cars & Privacy buyer’s guide in September,
we knew it would cause a stir. But we didn't dream of the global news coverage we
actually got: Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Washington Post, El Pais, The Guardian, Times of
India, Wired, and even Fox News – all in one day. (In retrospect, cars wanting to know
about your sex life and genetic information was a huge story.)
What went wrong: The part of our website with the buyer's guide completely crashed.
Like, BOOM, down it went, thanks to an unexpected overwhelming amount of news coverage and
traffic. There are some technical reasons why it went down, but the short version is we
hadn't retooled that part of the website to be more efficient when a lot of people
wanted to look at products.
Lesson learned: We simply weren’t prepared for the response we got, but it wasn't a
simple fix either. We're now focusing on bigger, structural optimizations in our
website to make sure nothing like that happens again. As annoying as it was when so many
people wanted to learn more about cars and privacy, having too much interest in our work
is also a good problem to have.
We're Building a Movement to Reclaim the Internet
The good news is that we try to learn from all our mistakes, adjust our plans, and move
forward on a better path. We get to fail and learn from mistakes because of the support of
supporters like you. Being able to fail and learn as opposed to fail and quit is what
makes Mozilla so strong. Your donation is the key to that. (Of course, we also have a lot
of wins this year – you'll hear more about them soon.)
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you make a mistake – it often holds the answer to a question you might never have known
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Thank you for laughing, learning, and sometimes failing along with us in 2023 – and for
all you do for the internet.
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