labourtech advocacy-0510
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Workshop on Online Advocacy delivered at LabourTech 2010 in Windsor, Ontario in May, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
Online AdvocacyPlease answer on the two stickies
provided:Sticky 1:“If I get one thing out of this session, I would like it to be....”
Sticky 2: Your name, organization and URL of any online campaigns you would like to share
Online Advocacy
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Cassie Barker
Online Coordinator
Eric Squair
Online Campaign CoordinatorWeb Manager
Online Advocacy
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Where do you stand?
Online advocacy campaigns
change everything.
There’s nothing new here - it’s all been done
before.
Online Advocacy
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Where do you stand?
Our organizations can currently run effective online
campaigns.
We need to change the way we work
and think to really do this effectively.
Online Advocacy
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Where do you stand?
We need to just jump into online advocacy campaigns and experiment.
Online advocacy campaigns need to be planned, budgeted, staffed and strategized from the very start.
Online Advocacy
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The Agenda today:
Online Campaigns, Our Vision of Change, Break (10 minutes)Effective Online Communications,The Pyramid of EngagementOrganizational Challenges
Online Advocacy
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Some definitions
(Online) Campaign
Social Networks
Strategy
Online Advocacy
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How Online Campaigns Change Everything (And How They’re Nothing New)
Online Advocacy
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Harness enhanced social networks to spread messages faster and more widely.
How Online Campaigns Change Everything (And How They’re Nothing New)
Online Advocacy
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They are open and adoptable.
How Online Campaigns Change Everything (And How They’re Nothing New)
Online Advocacy
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React faster to take advantage of high information / enthusiasm ratios.
How Online Campaigns Change Everything (And How They’re Nothing New)
Online Advocacy
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Puts the scale (and potentially the reach) of broadcast media in the hands of citizens.
How Online Campaigns Change Everything (And How They’re Nothing New)
Online Advocacy
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Our Purpose: what change do we want to see/lead in the world?
why do we exist?
why are we doing this work?
Our Vision of Change
Online Advocacy
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Power: What does the labour movement do really well?
what are we known for?
what are our successes?
Our Vision of Change
Online Advocacy
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Our Vision of Change
our role: how we fit in into the larger change movement/ecosystem
identity: how we see the world - who we are, our politics, our frameworks
power: how we contribute, how we frame the issues
strengths: what we do well, our successes, our capacity
brand: how we are seen - our voice, our imagery, our stories
Online Advocacy
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Fitness test: 1) Us: does this campaign fit our brand/image, our mission?
2) Issue: where does our advocacy/campaign fit in the larger strategic change plan/vision?
Our Vision of Change
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Needs: How do online campaigns address our vision/needs?The effort and expense needed for effective online campaigns requires organizational - if not sectoral - mobilization
Alignment/Support: how is this (or could it become) an organizational, if not sectoral, priority?
what does our organization/sector need to make this change happen?
Success: what can realistically expect from this campaign, given the time, resources, timelines we have?
Our Vision of Change
Online Advocacy
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"If we (labour) could do one campaign in the next
year, what would it be?"
Our Vision of Change
Online Advocacy
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Effective Online Communications
why it's the same: we still frame issues, messaging, storyboards, etc.
why it's different: new standards for ideas, concepts - HIPPOmeasurable results you can't hide from criticism and opposition - using them to strengthen our messages
Online Advocacy
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Who cares?
Audience: how does this issue/campaign connect to people's life, emotions, needs?
Scope: is this a membership vs. labour vs. public priority?
Target: who holds the power, what are their pressure points, and whose voice/presence will be needed?
Framing: what values are we speaking to in our messaging? how do we evoke stories, myths, imagery, history?
Effective Online Communications
Online Advocacy
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Effective Online Communications
Power Mapping the Priority Issue
Issue: what's our desired outcome? Decision-makers: who has the power to change this? Levers: what are their pressure points?Agents: who are our audience? allies? foes?Source: are we the best messenger for this issue? what's our personality/brand?
Online Advocacy
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