My grandmother used to say that “if you have one mouth and two ears it’s because you should listen twice as much as you speak”. Today I know this is a bare minimum. But listening is easier said than done. This article published by ActBuildChange.org provides useful advice on how to listen better, so we…
From condoms to viral videos, campaigners left no stone unturned in their fight against right-wing populism in Switzerland.
NEW POWER How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You by Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms Heimans, CEO of Purpose, which “builds and supports social movements,” and Timms, executive director of the 92nd Street Y, debut with an illuminating discussion of how technology and our rising expectations have enabled…
We mostly think that we can bring about change by relying on people’s reason. But as social psychologist Jonathan Haidt wrote in The Righteous Mind, “Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.” This is an edited excerpt of an article from thewholestory For decades, economists assumed that human beings were reasonable actors, operating in a…
This article by Clodagh Schofield first appeared on Mobilisationlab.org In Ireland on May 25, 2018, the Yes campaign to repeal the nation’s 8th Amendment abortion ban won after receiving nearly two-thirds of the over 2.1 million votes cast. The victory resulted in part from people across the country having hard conversations about abortion. Let’s take…
Article first published on IPS journal The globalisation of anti-gender campaigns Transnational anti-gender movements in Europe and Latin America create unlikely alliances By Sonia Corrêa, David Paternotte, Roman Kuhar | 31.05.2018 EPAHundreds of people take part during a demonstration in front of the Paraguayan Congress in Asuncion to claim a public education system based on…
Campaigns shouldn’t be easy! Why difficulty and motivation matter so much in campaign design Thoughts on Dan Ariely’s book “Payoff” “Knowing what drives us and others is an essential step toward enhancing the inherent joy, and minimizing the confusion, in our lives” – Dan Ariely The work of Psychology and Behavioral Economics Professor Dan Ariely…
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…
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…
This article from Open Global Rights tells how activists in Hungary mounted a successful public campaign in support of civil society in the face of a 2017 law banning foreign-funded NGOs.