I’ve been blogging, but not here. Here’s the posts I’ve written on my work’s blog. Click the titles for the full articles.

Engaging Networks’ #spark11 conference for non-profits

On Tuesday 14 June 2011 I attended Engaging Networks’ Spark event in London. Engaging Networks is the new name for Advocacy Online – the supporter engagement software that allows organisations to manage fundraising, campaigning/advocacy, email and social actions in a centralised platform.

Audience research – getting to know your Facebook Fans

We all know that the better we know and understand our audiences, the more likely our communications with them will be successful. If we’re already talking to people on Facebook, what do we know about who’s listening? Facebook Insights tells us the age and gender of our fans, and where they are, but nothing about what interests them. We can look at what content we put out and see what is the most engaging, but how would we know what we’re missing? Also, how do we know how different our fans are to the average Facebook user?

NixonMcInnes adopt Unison model workplace policy on domestic abuse

It’s world mental health day today, so I thought I’d blog about a related bit of recent NixonMcInnes news.

Last year I went to the Feminism in London conference and also to a seminar on women’s rights at Socialism 2010, and while there I learnt why domestic abuse is a workplace issue.

Victims of domestic abuse are likely to be affected in ways which affect their working lives – they may need to take time out of work, e.g. to visit a healthcare professional for physical or mental health reasons and their ability to deliver their actual work may be threatened – as such, workplaces need to take active steps to make sure they are not going to inadvertently discriminate against victims.

Current themes around social media and fundraising

Max and I did a presentation last week on the current themes around social media digital and fundraising (well, c’mon, digital is pretty much all social now, right?). Here’s a few of the big ones as we see it:

• Social proof
• Gaming
• Micropayments
• Geo-social
• Fundraising for campaign comms
• Corporate social sponsorship / partnership
• Crowd-sourced products / transactional donations

Happiness vs work

As many of you know, here at NixonMcInnes, in our attempts to prioritise people before profit, we measure happiness of the workforce.

As every ‘normal’ business should, we also measure how much chargeable work we’re doing.

I wondered – when we have tonnes of work to do, do we get stressed and unhappy? So, I mapped the two figures.

Continuing to share my delicious links, here’s my top activism links so far. To reiterate, I don’t usually save the really obvious stuff to delicious, or the really easy to find stuff.

38 Degrees | people. power. change. – Democratically crowdsourcing campaign ideas.

Act Responsible -  responsible communication on sustainability, equitable development and social responsibility.

Armchair Revolutionary – social game, supports worldchanging science and technology projects.

Charity Navigator – America’s independent charity evaluator, evaluating the financial health of charities.

Citizen Tube – YouTube’s News and Politics Blog.

CrimethInc – Ex-Workers’ Collective (CWC) – a decentralized anarchist collective. Publishing and distributing literature and free propaganda. Check out their posters!

Cyber-Marx: cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism – Book by Nick Dyer-Witheford (read here via Google Books)

Cybersociology Magazine – Issue 5: Grassroots Political Activism Online (01 April 1999)

DigiActive – digital activism tools, campaigns, and tactics.

Digital Activism Decoded – The New Mechanics of Change – Book edited by Mary Joyce (read here via Scribd).

Digital Activists Expose Abuse – BBC news article.

Digital Economy Bill is Passed! – blog post summarising what the DEBill means for politics.

Feminism London – annual feminist conference.

Forum for Change – online community – a free network for campaigners and policy workers to share information and discuss the latest issues.

G20: Protesters use Twitter, Facebook and social media tools to organise demonstrations – Telegraph article

Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI) – generates money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money they automatically buy Google shares. Buying Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself – but in the end “we” own it!

Guerilla Sticker Campaign via Boris Bikes – Treehugger article

HarassMap - a system in Egypt for reporting incidences of sexual harassment via SMS messaging. Similar to Hollaback!

Hollaback! – a movement dedicated to ending street harassment using mobile technology.

Hope140 – good causes on Twitter, case studies etc. ‘Better Now’

How to turn slactivists into activists with social media – Mashable article

Internet & Democracy Project: An introduction to digital activism (video) - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School announces the Internet and Democracy Project, an initiative that will examine how the Internet influences democratic norms and modes, including its impact on civil society, citizen media, government transparency, and the rule of law, with a focus on the Middle East.

internet.artizans – Tracking the Internet, Human Rights & Social Change.

Is digital activism an effective medium for change? – Guardian article.

Is this what you mean? – Subverting adverts.

Media / anthropology – Research blog of John Postill covering digital activism & more.

Meta-Activism Project – The mission is to build human and informational infrastructure for the study of digital activism.

Nestle Kerfuffle (presentation) – A timeline showing the first four days of the online PR battle between Nestle and Greenpeace. It shows the numbers of people online who helped drive the PR disaster for Nestle over the company’s use of unsustainable palm oil.

Networked Culture: #iranelection cyberwar guide for beginners – article, but see rest of site too.

New Tactics in Human Rights – Information Activism

OpenNet Initiative - ONI’s mission is to identify and document Internet filtering and surveillance, and to promote and inform wider public dialogues about such practices.

Peace Chicken – Blog about veganism, animal rights, politics, activism and more.

Student Protest (video) – Flickr video of the student occupation of Millbank in 2010.

Tactical Technology Collective – Our mission is to advance the skills, tools and techniques of rights advocates, empowering them to utilise information and communications as a critical asset in helping marginalised communities understand and effect progressive social, environmental and political change.

TechSoup Global – TechSoup Global, founded in 1987 as CompuMentor, provides technology resources and knowledge to NGOs around the world.

The New Feminists: Still Fighting – Guardian article. Why the battle is not yet won.

Tor: Anonymity Online – Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.

RSS Feed of Beth Granter’s Delicious Activism Links

Here’s a viral video made by ActionAid about why we should all buy fairtrade food and encourage supermarkets to make sure their suppliers pay their workers fairly.  Without mincing their words:

Video: ActionAid stick it to Tesco

The point of the campaign is to pressure the UK Government into setting up a watchdog to monitor how supermarkets pay and treat the workers who provide their food.

Please re-blog! Cheers

A piece of my art is in an auction tomorrow (Sunday 16th November) in Bergen, Norway, for street paper charity Megafon.  Check it out if you’re about that way… not sure how many people who read my blog will be able to go! Details here, but in Norwegian!