Training

Posted by | April 8, 2013
We Spent a Year Monitoring 10,000 Facebook Pages: Here’s What You Should Know

A handful of progressive organizers have built a new tool for finding the absolute best social posts on the web. We'll both talk about how to use the tool to...

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Stories From the Front Lines of Organizing

National People's Action has a tradition  of bringing together organizers from around the country to share stories about their organizing work on some of the toughest issues, from immigration to...

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Graphic Design Hacks for Non-Designers

Do you wish you could make that killer graphic you envisioned? Are you jealous of your friends who are proficient with Adobe Creative Suite? Do you feel like the internet...

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Seeing is Believing: Visual Storytelling Best Practices

You’ve heard countless times that a picture is worth a thousand words. In the mysterious inner world of the brain, pictures actually do take primacy over words. But how often...

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Kill the Press Release: Pitching Media in a New Media World

The press release was born in 1906, before the internet, mobile phones or television and just 10 years after the invention of radio. Since its birth, we've revolutionized the way...

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What are you doing on my site? Google Analytics for Tracking and Optimization

Do you know what people do when they get to your site? Google Analytics tells you things like how much time someone spends on a page or how quickly they...

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Make It Pop: Using Data Visualisation To Understand What You’ve Done, are Doing and Should Do

We understand the importance of data-driven work in organizing, but how do we properly understand the data to be driven by them? This training will show you techniques for visualizing...

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Play Your Way to a Theory of Change

As the '80s hit says: "One thing leads to another." That's the most basic description of a theory of change. If you want to make a difference in this world,...

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Five Secrets: The Proven Neuroscience Behind Persuading Voters

Everyone remembers the first time that State Sen. Barack Obama came onto the national stage. This guy from Illinois with a funny name delivered a speech that many say is...

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Tweeting the Revolution: Twitter Training for Campaigning

In this last year, Twitter has doubled its users by at least 200 million users. This session will guide you in the basic to intermediate with some tidbits of advanced...

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