Common Knowledge

Hey everyone!

Looking for some people to look at a website for us and tell us what they think.

It should take about an hour and would help us out a great deal.

To help out, just fill out the form linked below. Thanks!

User Testing Recruitment Help us out by testing the design of a new website!

Really good initiative from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung London Office. People working in grassroots member organisation should get involved with this, please make sure it fills up!

Feminize Politics Now! - RLS Brüssel RLS Reading and Organisational Strategy Group

We recently started a collaboration with Cooperation Town looking at how to facilitate a network of self-organised food cooperative organisers.

Here's what we learned from a week long design sprint with some of their community organisers, before we keep going!

https://commonknowledge.coop/writing/cooperation-town-design-sprint-part-3/

Enjoy the read and thanks to The National Lottery Community Fund for their support in this project. 🧪💡➡️

Have any reflections? Comment here or get in touch!

Cooperation Town design sprint (part three) Sketching, storyboarding, prototyping and testing our ideas

We like to start meetings with a check in.

Find out how you can too in this blog post. If you find it useful, then let us know.

Starting Meetings Well With A Check In Starting meetings with a check in can be really helpful. Here's how.

How about a complete organisational chart of the Labour Party? We've been working with Labour Together to understand how the party machine operated in 2019. If anything is incorrect, comment or email us at [email protected].

Labour Party Central Office Staff

Another piece in Jacobin covering the movement angle.

Why the Shadow Inc. App Failed Building an app is more than shipping some code and telling people to use it. It is adding a new factor to a complex social system. It requires planning, training, and care. And yet the Shadow Inc. app used in the Iowa caucuses was built and shipped in three months.

We have been publishing recently! An opinion piece on Bernie's political tech approach in The Guardian on Sunday:

The secret behind the Sanders campaign: people before tech | Common Knowledge In a break from Obama’s big-tech data-gathering era, Bernie Sanders’ team prizes trust and empowerment, says Common Knowledge, a workers cooperative based in London

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