Once a month
Choose the conversations.
Match topics to your residents, set the dates and hosts, and return one consolidated plan.
A clear calendar, without a separate planning meeting.
Open monthly planner →Community Edition · Tools for your team
A simple routine for your team.
Choose the conversations. Keep the right people informed. Put the materials in residents’ hands.
The World Desk prepares the reading and conversation materials. These three practical tools show how your community can organize their local use, with one coordinator and a backup.
You can preview every tool before deciding. No registration is required to look, and no worksheet needs to be completed to request a staff trial month.
Monthly and when roles change
Keep delivery on track.
Confirm who receives plans and materials. Record additions, corrections, or removals in one place.
The people doing the work receive what they need.
Open delivery-list update →Weekly and before gatherings
Make the local handoff.
Assign printing and distribution for Beyond the Headlines, resident sheets, and host guides.
Clear responsibilities before the materials arrive.
Open printing checklist →Every morning · 3 To Know video and audio
Put the day’s three stories on screen and on air.
Each morning The World Desk publishes 3 To Know, the day’s three most important stories read aloud in about two to three minutes. Free in every plan: the daily 3 To Know video and its 3-minute audio file. A new one is ready by 6 a.m. Eastern. Your team does not write, edit or print anything. Your team’s job is to decide where residents will see and hear it and who will press play.
Using the video
Set up once, then a minute or two each morning
- Choose your screens. Pick where residents gather in the morning, such as the lobby, elevator or common-room screen, the in-house TV channel, or the room where you hold a morning gathering.
- Test the connection once. Any screen with a web browser or the YouTube app will play it. Open The World Desk on YouTube or the player on the program page, which always shows today’s video. Turn captions and volume up so they are easy to follow from across the room.
- Name a morning owner and a backup. One person starts the video at the same time each day, for example 8:00 a.m. before breakfast. Your backup covers days off.
- Repeat it where it helps. You may want to play it again before lunch, or loop it on a lobby screen through the morning so late risers catch it.
- Tie it to your gatherings. On Coffee and a Topic days, play the video at the start. It gives everyone the same three stories to talk about.
Sharing the audio
Pick the ways that suit your residents
- In-house radio or announcement system. Play it at a set time each morning, the same way you share the day’s menu or activities.
- In the dining room. Play it at a low volume at the start of breakfast, or ask a staff member to play it for tables that want it.
- For residents with low vision. Make sure they know where to hear it each day. Every story in the daily edition is also read aloud on the website, included with the Community Program at no extra charge.
- In residents’ homes. Share the audio with residents who prefer to listen at home, through your resident email list or community app.
- At a listening corner. A tablet or speaker in the library or lounge, set up to play the day’s audio, suits residents who don’t use a phone or computer.
How your team receives the daily audio file is agreed during setup.
The World Desk prepares
The content and guidance.
The reading, conversation materials, host guide, invitation wording, and the daily 3 To Know video and audio.
Your community coordinates
The people and local details.
Topic choices, recipients, dates, hosts, printing, distribution, gathering arrangements, and who plays the morning video and audio.
These are downloadable and printable worksheets, not a new management platform. Monthly cutoffs, delivery arrangements, and confirmation steps are agreed during setup. Start with the samples to judge the content; use these tools to judge the practical fit.