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Webinar: Facebook throttled my social media strategy. Now what?
In my new role as a leadership fellow at the Broadbent Institute they want me to share digital insights with the progressive movement, so we are organizing what should be a popular webinar on recent...
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6 things today's breakout campaigns get right
People often ask me what are today's most successful online campaigns. It’s a great question to ask when planning your own, because the pace of change keeps speeding up, and campaigns that aim for...
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Standing behind First Nations to stop new fossil fuel infrastructure
I don't often post here about my personal passion projects, preferring to stay focused on content useful for digital and comms directors working in social change. But every now and then a cause comes...
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Three kinds of campaigns (with wicked websites)
Some of the most exciting work I get to do is campaign planning: taking a group with a vision and some resources and helping them focus a tight communications, engagement, and digital strategy that's...
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Communicopia seeks Executive Assistant
Communicopia is a 20 year old digital consulting firm that helps nonprofits and socially responsible businesses develop stronger online campaigns and programs. We are a small firm but have worked with...
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Learning from doing - 15 years of Web of Change
A wise friend of mine likes to say “be the thing that you’re on about”. In my world where organizations are encouraged to take bigger risks, often relying on the advice of digital change agents to...
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IMPACT - six patterns to spread your social innovation
A lot of people talk about social change, few have actually made it in a lasting way, changing not only an issue or a life but a whole system. Even fewer have become wise and remained humble after a...
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A new high bar for campaign integration
After years of complaining pointing to the limitations in how progressives move our issues forward in a 21st century media environment, last weekend I had the great luck of being part of a real...
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Sending a breakthrough signal in a tuned out world
Most progressive advocacy groups still think getting “a story in a newspaper I read” is the ultimate PR coup. It’s so tangible, and its been the measure of success for so many decades, it's just so...
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Canadian election - movement explainer for Americans
I spend my days pretty evenly split between US and Canadian work, and the questions I'm asked most often these past few years are simple: what the heck happened to you guys, how did it happen so...
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Organizing vs Mobilizing - focussing your campaign to win
One of the best parts about being a consultant is being able to learn new ideas from organizations pushing the edge of innovation, and share them across sectors. I recently learned a new way of looking...
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Networked society insights from new team member Tom Liacas
The changes that networks are hard-wiring into society are discussed much more often in the corporate world than in our world of social change. That's why we're so excited that writer, researcher, and...
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You won't go viral without these three campaign pillars
I just had a call with a promising start up that's trying to build momentum for their new campaign after a successful media launch. They've a lot going for them: a solution to an issue with huge...
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What you can learn from Bernie's online Bern
US Presidential elections are amazing generators of innovation in campaigning strategies and tools, and every few cycles allows us to witness a quantum leap.Clearly the leaper this time is Bernie...
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