Lobbying and campaigning on a shoestring Louise Brown, NCVO Rod King, 20's Plenty for Us Jackie Schneider, Children’s Food Campaign
Dec 07, 2014
Lobbying and campaigning on a shoestring
Louise Brown, NCVO
Rod King, 20's Plenty for Us
Jackie Schneider, Children’s Food Campaign
• How you can be successful in your campaigns with limited financial resources
• Discover free and low cost tools, services and online resources
• Hear from case studies that have succeeded in making a change, at both a local and national level, on a limited budget
Following the campaign cycle
Analysis of the issue & developing your strategy
What do we need our tools to do?
• Find out what people are saying
• Send us the latest news
• Tell us the latest policy information
• Connect with influencers and decision makers
Google blog search and Google alerts
Making alerts work for you
• Brainstorm key words for your searches
• Create a Google account to manage searches
• Respond to what you find & feed it in to your discussion
• Connect with & support people talking about your issue
RSS (really simple syndication) feeds
Making RSS work for you
• Brainstorm the sites relevant to your issue
• Set up an RSS reader account to receive news
• Add blogs that you’ve found through searches
• Add RSS feeds for your keyword searches
• Use the information you find
Wordle of the Localism bill
Dialogue analysis of documents
What are your MPs talking about?
They Work For You
The Public Whip
Parliamentary Outreach Who do you talk to?
Reaching the influencers and decision makers