Green Memes. This post is an excerpted chapter from “The Most Amazing Online Organizing Guide Ever" This chapter is by Megan Kelley & Joe Solomon.
Facebook is as much a tool for promoting social change as it is a puzzle. How do you figure out how to use the arsenal of tools Facebook offers (and often changes on a whim) to break through the noise, reach the most people, and sometimes inspire folks to do stuff. Below are 11 well- worn tips online organizers use to do all those things. 1) Create a sudden burst of community recruitment There’s no reason your campaign should have a small Facebook page—or if you already have a few hundred or a few thousand fans, why you can’t grow significantly.
These days, anyone can access the feature to invite friends to “like” a page. Bigger communities don’t just let you reach more people, they let your current supporters see they’re part of something much bigger. How to Build a Collaborative Organization. Building a collaborative organization is not easy.
Collaboration is not a rule you can set, it is a organizational culture that is embraced by its members. But where do you start? What is important? Here are four important things you should keep in mind. 1. In order to succeed in the collaboration world, you cannot just think of yourself as a content provider. In the networked age, organizations can now develop their own performance.
If people are going to hack your products anyway, then you mind as well get ahead of the game and include them into your process instead of suing them. Effective groups resources. NationBuilder - the Community Organizing System. Center for Story-based Strategy. Trello. Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups.
With businesses and families spread out more and more, we've dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page.
Business Productivity 37Signals.com - Maker of collaboration tools including Basecamp (others listed below). 8apps.com - A mixture of social network and productivity applications. BlueTie.com - Online collaboration directed towards small and medium sized businesses. Businessitonline.com - Centralized cash flow, documents, calendars and more for a team or small business. CentralDesktop.com - A full work suite for project teams including spreadsheets, file sharing, calendar and more. Colligo.com - Allows you to work on projects off-line and then sync them when you can login. ConceptShare.com - Share concept designs and allow invited workers to mark-up, comment, and give feedback.
Confluence - An enterprise-class wiki with features such as PDF exporting. Deep Shift: An unManifesto for Commmunity CoLearning. Collective Action Toolkit. Is it possible to inspire design thinking outside of the design world?
The practice has helped countless organizations innovate new products and services, but has infrequently been made available to a broad audience. frog set out to prove the practice is universal by creating the Collective Action Toolkit, a set of resources and activities to help people accomplish tangible outcomes through a set of guided, non-linear collaboration activities. The goal: to help communities generate solutions, connect to resources, and pool knowledge to solve a wide range of challenges and create real change. CAT got its start with the Nike Foundation, in which frog was asked to help empower girls to solve local community problems. The frog team explored the value of connections for adolescent girls living in extreme poverty in the developing world, and collectively devised solutions to the problems they faced. ReCitizen.org. Asset Mapping For The Long Haul: A Strategy For Occupy Movements. The Occupy movement has spread to 2,512 cities worldwide, and its support networks stretch far beyond physical occupations.
That it has grown so quickly without specific demands or hierarchical leadership is testament to the creative genius of its organisers. They understand a key lesson from web platform development of the past 10 years: provide an overarching framework yet let users define how they engage; in an era of collective individualism disinterest often arises from over-engineered outcomes. For Occupy, this has meant a ‘horizontal’ approach to leadership and the provision of a largely blank canvas for people to air grievances within a framework of broader discontent with ‘the 1%’. Specific demands, from identified leaders, could have left the movement open to co-option, rejection, or character assassination, all recipes for fizzle. Facilitating Asset Mapping First up, here is one example of an outcome from this process, so that you know what it is to which you might be working! Toolkit Overview « 350.org Workshops. Welcome to the 350 Workshops Toolkit.
A few years ago, when we started running climate leadership workshops around the world, we realized that there are so many passionate, energized ordinary people out there, who, with a little bit of practice, could become a powerful corps of leaders driving change. You are one of those people; This climate workshops toolkit is for you. We’re really excited to provide what we think is one of the best collection of documents, notes, tips and ideas on climate organizing. We can’t claim to know everything about leadership and organizing, and we encourage you to take these materials and adapt them to your own style and context (just make sure to credit 350.org and our friends who helped develop these guides!) So, how do I use this toolkit? Collective Decisions. Community Building Resources. Asset-Based Community Development Institute.