OrganiseUs Digital Intensive is our flagship annual five-day intensive training program in digital organising skills. It's on March 2-6, 2020, at the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne.
Come and spend five days learning with the best digital strategists, campaigners and organisers from across Australia, the US and UK. It's for early-career campaigners, or campaigners with more experience looking to broaden their digital skills.
This is a hands on, fun, fail-safe learning environment with a twist. You'll put what you learn into immediate action, running a mock digital campaign scenario throughout the week.
If you work for a non profit, political party, campaign, union, B-corp, social enterprise or business buy your ticket today.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
Creating winning campaigns: strategy, tactics and analysing power.
Telling compelling stories: excellent email, strategic social media and testing assumptions.
Making money: rapid response, digital fundraising and appealing campaigns.
Digital organising: Designing and building websites, action pages and email campaigns. Excelling in excel, HTML and CSS.
Community organising: Understanding CRMs, segmentation, integration and using digital to create community.
SCHOLARSHIPS
OrganiseUs is serious about diversity. We want to grow digital skills and organising capacity across a diverse sector of our community.
We are delighted to be running three specific scholarship funds:
Oxfam Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Campaigner Scholarship
#StopAdani Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Climate Campaigner Scholarship
We also consider scholarship places for people working on localised, marginalised or community campaigns, and for people volunteering or working for a non-profit with an annual turnover of less than $1 million.
All scholarship applications close 5pm, January 31, 2020 and will be considered on a rolling basis.
AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
The OrganiseUs Digital Intensive training curriculum has been compiled by Australia's best trainers, organisers and campaigners. It was originally developed in collaboration with the former New Organizing Institute in Washington, DC, and Campaign Bootcamp in London.
WHO WILL YOU LEARN FROM?
We will release our full list of trainers and coaches for our 2020 event soon. In the meantime, here is a sample of just some of our world-class trainers:
Tabatha is Founder at OrganiseUs, a digital communication and training agency advising on digital strategy for some of Australia's most influential campaigns, including #StopAdani. Tabatha loves combining her creative and strategic communication skills with the unique joy of bringing world-class digital training to people looking to change the world for good.
Tabatha was formerly Director of Business Development Australia at Change.org, the world's largest social change platform, set up the digital engagement team at the Australian Conservation Foundation and has over 18 years' experience developing media, communication and engagement strategies, and over seven years as a daily newsroom journalist.
Danny Adams is OrganiseUs Digital Creative Specialist, specialising in Nationbuilder, video and Adobe creative suite. Danny has worked in the for-good sector and creative arts for 15 years. Danny was formerly Community Manager at NationBuilder and has worked as Digital Campaigner at Lock the Gate. Crafting stories with strategy, Danny works with organisations across video, design, multimedia, audio, social media and Nationbuilder community management.
Beth Becker runs Becker Digital Strategies and is Senior Fellow in Digital Strategy and Training at the New Leaders Council, recruiting, training and promoting US progressive leaders. Beth has been named one of the world's 100 Best Social Media Strategists and has 20+ years of experience in communications, marketing, political digital strategy and training.
Aaron Lamb is Head of Digital at Oxfam Australia and is an expert at digital fundraising. He led the strategy for the Nepal emergency response which resulted in over $9 million donated via digital channels alone. Aaron makes sense of making dollars. He sits on the board for Cambodian Kids Can and is a bestselling sci-fi author.
Jessical Kendall Associate Director at Essential Media Communications where she manages media and communications for clients such as the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Education Union, and has worked with the Climate Council, the Solar Council, GetUp, and many other member-based organisations. Jess also advises a number of public contributors, including Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
Peter Stahel is Associate Director at Essential Media Communications, leading Essential's national communications team. Before joining Essential, Peter was a senior political adviser and press secretary in roles at a state and federal level. He is a communications and government relations practitioner with expertise across a broad range of issues including environment, social services, industrial relations and human rights.
Bridget Todd is a digital creative specialist. Bridget has coordinated digital strategy for organisations like Planned Parenthood, the Women's March, and MSNBC, and ran a training program for political operatives that the Washington Post called “the Hogwarts of the Democratic Party.”
Bridget questioned Obama about LGBTQ policy on MTV and talked about racism on the Daily Show. She explores feminist activism on her podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You. Her work has been covered in outlets like Teen Vogue and Refinery 29 and her writing on race, culture, and social change has appeared at outlets like the Atlantic, the Boston Review, and BuzzFeed. She's been featured as a speaker at SXSW, Harvard University, WNYC’s Werk It: Women's Podcast Festival, and the Congressional Latino Caucus. She co-hosts Podcasts: Stuff Mom Never Told You and the AFROPUNK Solution Sessions.
Corey creates websites and campaign apps to amplify the voices of progressive causes. As a co-founder and digital director of Code Nation, Corey has been building organising sites since 2013. A former high school teacher, Corey is excited to get back into the classroom and help other passionate campaigners master the basics of coding on NationBuilder. If you want to be his best friend forever, then shout him a beer or speak at him in Spanish.
Lynneal Santo is Canva's senior designer. Lynneal works with the team of designers who create all the wonderful templates you see in Canva's library. She has written a design and branding guide for Canva's design school, with tips for creating your own brand.
Joachim's main claim to fame is that he shared a class with Jessica Mauboy growing up in Darwin paradise. When he's not riding J-Mau's coat tails, Joachim works with campaign organisations and environment groups to bring their digital strategy to life in the form of gorgeous action-focused websites. He spends his days leading the CodeNation team and sharpening his skills in the liqiud templating language that powers NationBuilder sites.
With a little help from our friends
This event is only possible because of the generous financial, logistical and brains trust support from the following organisations:
