Innovative Tech for Social Justice Causes: Resources from Democracy Labs
Democracy Labs applies innovative tech to social justice and voting rights causes. Here is a list of tech ideas for campaigners & organizers.
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Technology – Platforms
Digital tools to support effective meetings, training and conferences
List of digital tools activists have used to support effective meetings, training and conferences that complement and/or integrate with Zoom.
Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual
The Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual offers 14 How-to guides on cutting-edge approaches to progressive organizing and mobilizing.
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).
Tools Roundup Apps and Digital Platforms for Organizers
Need to know the best and latest digital platforms for organizers? Blueprints for Change have collated a list to help you with your digital tool selection.
How to use WhatsApp for campaigning
WhatsApp How to Guide from Blueprints for Change. Use WhatsApp for campaigning, community building, activating networks and crowdsourcing knowledge.
Digital security basics for campaigners
Upgrade your digital security practices with this how-to guide of advice, tools and resources from Blueprints for Change.
Support and coaching techniques for remote groups
Learn from groups that have remote teams and have developed ways to support them at a distance whilst maintaining a sense of purpose and togetherness.
Enhancing collective decision-making with technology
Ben Knight presented at Progress 2015 about the power of unleashing collective intelligence through better technology. He provides a short introduction to the Loomio platform for discussion and decision-making.
7 tips for Facebook Risk Management
Facebook is a vital organising and networking tool but presents risks for activists. Digital security can seem overwhelming but we can all get better at it. There are organisations who have done a great job of breaking the information down and giving you support to improve your practices. Start with these 7 tips.
Tools for More Secure Activism
CounterAct encourages the progressive and radical movements on the Australian continent to get better at digital privacy and security. Security culture is simply a set of practices that limits the ability for government or opponents to find out more information about you and interfere with or monitor your group. We’ve given you some tools to minimise this.
Grassroots Led Campaigns: Lessons from the new frontier of people-powered campaigning platforms and programs
Decentralised, grassroots-led digital campaigning has taken off in the last decade. This report looks at the impact these campaigns are having, what lessons we can learn from them about success, and what these new campaigns platforms mean for the future of social change.
Three examples of visualisations for campaigns
Examples from the UK, Europe and Australia of how maps have been used to effectively communicate complex data in campaigns.
Tips on using Slack
Slack is a great way to facilitate easy internal communication – but getting started can be confusing. This guide was collated by the OPEN Network, incorporating best practice from a number of organisations who’ve used Slack for years.
Digital Tactic Inspiration: Ecomark by WeMove
Primark, the international clothing chain, famously does not have an online store. So when EU-wide campaigning organisation WeMove chose to target Primark in a sustainability campaign, they started by launching a parody site.
Experiment – Facebook videos vs. graphics for conversions
Methodology and results of an experiment run by GetUp comparing video to still Facebook graphics in ads.