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    FWD + Organise 2021: Conference Resources

    Conference Proceedings from the FWD + Organise Conference 2021 held by Australian Progress for community organisers and digital campaigners.

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    Talking About the Bushfire Crisis and Climate Change

    One-to-one conversations can help people understand the bushfire crisis, the link to climate change, and the need for action. Here’s 5 resources for effective conversations.

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    Persuasive Conversation Campaigns Guide

    Persuasive conversation campaigns can help break through to segments of the population who have a different perspective or have voted against you.

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    Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual

    Theย Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual offers 14 How-to guides on cutting-edge approaches to progressive organizing and mobilizing.

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    Tools for Canvassing and Door Knocking

    How-to guide on networked coalitions/campaigns. Harness the power of networks to develop more agile, dynamic and distributed campaigning coalitions.

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    Three Open Source Tech Tools for your Campaigning

    The right tech tools can make a huge difference to the effectiveness of a campaign or organising project. Check out Tijuana (campaign CRM), Neighbourly (doorknocking walk-list tool) and Spoke (p2p text tool).

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    Ground Wars Electoral field campaigning

    Joel Dignam reviews Ground Wars, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen’s hands-on ethnographic study of two competitive congressional campaigns in the 2008 US election. The book is a richly-detailed portrait of contemporary field campaigning.

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    Retain Volunteers with Intrinsically Motivating Work

    Civic associationsย depend upon volunteers to get their work done. Joel Dignam distils insights from Ruth Wageman and Richard Hackman’s โ€œDesigning work for individuals and for groupsโ€ from Perspectives on Behavior in Organizations.

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    Is Personalised Political Communication Manipulative?

    โ€œPersonalized political communicationโ€ refers to when the medium for a message is a person, not media such as television, pamphlets, or billboards. The electoral arms race is seeing a renaissance of PPC and greater engagement of voters in campaigns and the political process.

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    Tips for Phonebanking or Calling Volunteers

    Whether you are looking to recruit members or talking to voters in far-flung electorates, these are some basic guidelines for getting the most out of phone conversations.

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