Most are familiar with the saying “Too many cooks spoil the broth”, meaning that when too many people start deciding on something, it normally ends up messy. The typical coalition pitfalls will be familiar to most readers: turf wars, conflicting interests, resource constraints and so forth. From a communications perspective, these are often expressed in…
Organizers shared with us how they managed to organize a large-scale demonstration for LGBTIQ equality in a country where homosexuality was criminalized.
In a previous post, we shared some insights from the Resource Media website on choosing the right image for your communication. But how will you know whether your carefully laid out thoughts actually work? Here are some more insights from the same source on how to test your visuals. Why test? Testing your visuals can…
This article is a summary of the publication Seeing is Believing : A Guide to Visual Storytelling Best Practices by Resource Media 300 million photos are uploaded on Facebook alone every day in 2017 (source), that’s how powerful our drive for pictures is. No story has the power to move people without visual support. This is…
The European umbrella organisation of LGBTQI organisations ILGA Europe and the Public Interest Research Center have just published two essential guides to help activists frame their messages. The first of these, Framing Equality, is a short guide to strategic communications, based on extensive research and building on the experience of activists and communicators from around…
Are you too sending your messages out there “online” and wait for the media to pick it up? Not really working for you either? Here’s a great webinar for you, from the Center for Artistic Activism team
Activists transformed an attack on their office into a large-scale campaign involving an Olympic athlete.
How Plato can help us redefine campaigning Article from the Sheila McKechnie Foundation September 29, 2017 SMK Team We all know that campaigning has been going through a bit of a rough patch, with the lobbying act and all. However, I was still taken aback when someone referred to campaigning as the “C” word. A…
A very interesting report has just come out. It tells the story of how LEGEBITRA, Slovenia’s main LGBT organisation, has developed their messages when the government imposed a national referendum on opening marriage to same-sex couples. This report gives a detailed overview of how the each side FRAMED the debate. The analysis differentiates between the “diagnosis”…
Grandparents starred in a series of humorous campaigns that aimed to normalize LGBTIQ individuals in Slovenia.