Project management consulting and training for social change organisations.
For those of us just returning from the eCampaigning Forum in Oxford last week — Joel Makower has written an interesting post on Web 2.0 applications and activism worth taking a look at. In his post, Joel posits:
This reinforces a lot of what was discussed throughout the conference, and as we learned at the end of the day on Friday, is exactly what Greenpeace and a coalition of organizations campaigning against climate change are attempting to do with an open source Web 2.0 application they're developing codenamed Custard Melt.
It'll be interesting to see how things play out over the next few months :)
As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm currently working with Leda Dederich at ScoutSeven to develop the project plan for dotOrganize, a collaborative software development and strategic support project undertaken to get better organizing tools and strategies into the hands of grassroots organizers. While we work on documenting the plan, we're also working to gather requirements, and to that end, a request from Leda:
http://www.scoutseven.com/survey
So yes, please take a few minutes to help us help you. Much appreciated :)
UPDATE: the survey is now closed. Over 400 responses were received and the results are now being aggregated; stay tuned to http://www.scoutseven.com/dotorganize for the published findings!
Tomorrow I'll be meeting up with George Irish and Rolf Kleef and heading to Oxford for eCampaigning Forum 2006. It's a 2 day event coordinated by Duane Raymond of Fairsay, hosted by Oxfam GB, supported by the Oxford Internet Institute and to be attended by over 50 participants representing Amnesty International, Greenpeace, MoveOn.org, the WWF, and many others. The goal of the conference is to make online activism more successful by connecting practitioners, sharing expertise and facilitating cooperation.
I look forward to meeting everyone!
