Category Archive For "e-campaigning"
Do 50,000 signatures still make a big petition in the UK?
A new Parliament Petitions Committee has just been appointed, and the petition site will resume service again, so as it does that I’ve taken a revisit the analysis I did in the summer of 2018 on what makes a big petition (see original post here). Back then, I used the data from the 170 or …
What happens if you don’t open any campaign emails for a year?
Last year I started an experiment, to sign up to a bunch of campaigning organisation, and then find out what happened if I said ‘yes’ to every request they sent to me. So for a month, I did that for every email I got from 38 Degrees, Avaaz, Sum of Us and We Move. Over …
What happened when I said ‘YES’ to every email from an online campaign platform?
What would happen if I just said YES. Inspired by Glyn Thomas who signed up to 100 charity emails and finishing reading Analytical Activism by David Karfp, which looks at the approaches online platforms use, I set myself a little experiment. What would happen If I signed up to the email lists of some of the …
Email your MP – where next?
It’s a truth, almost universally acknowledged, that MPs don’t like ‘email your MP’ petitions.Listen to MPs talk to campaigners, and they’ll tell you they find the annoying and a burden on precious staff time, but they’re a staple in most campaigning toolkits. Most MPs will tell you that the volume of emails means it can …
To petition or not to petition
One of the fun parts of my job is that occasionally people come to me to ask for advice about the best campaigning tactic to use. (Let me know if I can bring my campaign advice clinic to you – I’m serious). A few months ago, an organisation approached me asking if they should launch …
Beware the Twitter echo chamber – Graph of the Week
One Direction (don’t pretend you don’t know who they are!) supported the Action/2015 campaign a few weeks ago. The engagement on Twitter was amazing, I’ve never seen so many RTs so quickly but you didn’t see any of that action on my Twitter feed (follow me at @MrTomBaker). That experience and this article on the …
Remember Kony2012?
It was less than 6 months ago that everyone was talking about Joseph Kony. The result of the unprecedented success of Invisible Children’s Kony2012 film that was viewed by millions. Now the dust has settled what can we learn from the success of the film? The International Broadcasting Trusts report, ‘Kony 2012 – Success or Failure’ …
Happy Birthday to the Government e-petition site
The Government e-Petition site celebrated its first birthday last month, and the team at the Government Digital Services released figures about usage in its first year. In short; 15,600 petition were opened, but a massive 47% of petitions submitted were rejected. 6.4 million signatures were collected from the 13 million unique visitors to the site. Only …
Looking beyond the usual corporate suspects
I was struck by this comment in a great post by David Ritter on campaigning trends that corporates need to be ready to respond to in the coming year; NGOs are increasingly looking beyond the usual corporate suspects for campaign targets. Ritter goes on to cite the example of ‘the global management consultancy McKinsey has been …
Why has Kony 2012 been so successful?
The Kony 2012 campaign is everywhere….if you haven’t heard about it you soon will! Since releasing their latest campaign film just days ago it’s had millions of views (the statistics on the Vimeo dashboard show the way that views of the film have grown and grown since its release on Monday), been trending worldwide all …
mrtombaker
Director of Campaigns and Organising at Save the Children, previously worked for Bond, Tearfund and Christian Aid, co-founder Campaign Bootcamp, blog about campaigning because I'm passionate about seeing more campaigns win, election geek (and recovering Labour Party activist), interested in monitoring and evaluation, this blog is all my own views. Prone to bad spelling!