Great online resources
Enews subscribers regularly share with us the websites and online resources they’re developing, discovering and learning from in their community organising. Enjoy this month’s batch and be sure to drop us a line to suggest links for the next enews.
Would Saul Alinsky break his own rules? Although his landmark book, Rules for Radicals, is now nearly 45 years old, the principles that emerged from Alinsky’s work have influenced every generation of community organizers that has come since...
Relationships are (the) work: Sean Thomas-Breitfeld reflects on the importance of relationship building in creating the movement infrastructure needed to effect lasting social change. Sean considers how deeper relationships between activists and organizations naturally lead to more collective solutions, sticking together through times of scarcity, and making the connections between struggles that help movements last and grow.
Guide to online campaigning for unions: How to use the power of the Internet to urge union members and supporters to become online activists, and to take that action off-line in the real world. Download a 40 page sample free.
Telling your public story: Self, us, now: (Marshall Ganz) By telling our personal stories of challenges we have faced, choices we have made, and what we learned from the outcomes we can inspire others and share our own wisdom. Because stories allow us to express our values not as abstract principles, but as lived experience, they have the power to move others.
eConvenor is a group-organising tool for grassroots campaigns and community groups. It handles the boring and time-consuming bits of organising a group, so you can get on with the real work. Functions include compiling and distributing agendas, tracking group tasks and keeping track of decisions.
Loomio is a fantastic (and free) online collaborative decision-making tool combining discussion and voting.
