Digital Campaigning: Start Here
Digital campaigning leverages technology to create change through emails, petitions, and platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Here is a list of resources to get you started.
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Digital campaigning leverages technology to create change, whether through emails and petitions or WhatsApp and Instagram. The resources here will help you finesse your mobilising strategy, broaden your engagement across platforms, and think critically about how to measure your success.
How to Create a Successful Digital Campaign: Digital Activism Toolkit
How to Create a Successful Digital Campaign: Digital Activism Toolkit is a practical guide by Youth and Environment Europe.
Online Tactics: Digital Storms
A Digital Storm is an online event mobilising the public to email, call, text and post comments to a corporate or government target.
Digital First Aid Kit
Guide to help activists better protect themselves and the communities they support against the most common types of digital emergencies.
Digital Transformation in Progressive Organisations
How do we convince our organisations to invest in tech and digital? How do we get new ideas up and running, and build a culture of innovation?
Detangling Digital: Has the concept of a centralised digital department outlived its usefulness?
Instead of a centralised place for all things digital, here’s a model for integrating digital skillsets back into every department of an organisation.
Community Organising and Digital Campaigning Webinar Series
A webinar series from Australian Progress exploring insights from Australia and around the world on how to best organise and lead digital campaigns. Includes election case studies from the US, Northern Territory (Australia) and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Lost Voices: A toolkit for Digital Campaigners
This toolkit helps charities improve their digital campaigns by centering the voices of lived experience. Reshape your digital campaigns to be more accessible, effective, inclusive and responsible.
The State of Digital Organising in Europe 2020
Research from surveys & interviews (over 1000 organisations) on the state of digital organising and online campaigns/activism across Europe.
ChangeMakers Organising School – Season Two
Notes from training sessions hosted by ChangeMakers and Tipping Point April to July 2020. The training aims to equip organisers and campaigners to respond to challenges and continue their work during the Covid-19 pandemic.
ChangeMakers Organising School – Season One: Organising in a Pandemic
Notes from training sessions hosted by ChangeMakers and Tipping Point April to July 2020. The training aims to equip organisers and campaigners to respond to challenges and continue their work during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Digital Campaigning Webinars
Digital campaigning free webinars for Not for Profit & grassroots campaigners by Glenn Todd. Learn the tech fundamentals & tools to grow a grassroots campaign.
Online Picket Line Guide
Do you want to know how to run an online picket line? Here is a guide from the Victorian Trades Hall Council who ran the world’s 1st online picket line in March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to launch digital actions for the campaign for #WageSubsidyForAll.
4 tips for digital organizing when our communities are physically isolating
How to organize online to keep your movement and momentum going during the Covid-19 pandemic, including mass calls, digital strikes, livestreams, virtual town hall meetings, one-click emailing and more.
FWD + Organise 2019 Conference Presentations and Papers
A list of presentations and articles from the FWD+Organise conference on organising and digital campaigning held in Sydney, Australia in 2019.
Fighting online racist trolls
Laura O’Connell Rapira from ActionStation (Aotearoa New Zealand) ran a workshop at the conference, FWD+Organise 2019, about how their organisation worked with volunteers to tackle the trolls behind online hate.
Building Digital Power: A playbook for changemakers
Digital strategy insights and tips for not for profits focused on people and relationships and based on a decade of trial and error and research.
How to get more petition signatures
A guide developed by ActionStation to support community members to run successful petitions, including notes on strategy, tips for getting more signatures, and example campaigns.
The Big Five Trends in Video for 2020
The nature of video and digital campaigning changes so rapidly, it’s sometimes hard to keep up with the latest strategies to cut through and move people. This article & presentation outlines 5 key trends plus a useful checklist for developing compelling videos.
Changemaker Chat with Paul Oosting from GetUp: Elections and Politics
GetUp is one of Australia’s most impactful and influential community organisations, and Paul Oosting is their national director. We discuss what GetUp learnt from the 2019 Federal Election campaign. We find out Paul’s insights about what it’s like to operate under the pressure of media and political attack.