Feb 24 - 2021

Frameworks of engagement. Choose your shape: ladder, pyramid, onion, or circle.

Contributor: Weronika Paszewska The work of making change is always a challenge. While there are many components we know fundamentally one thing is key: people. Unfortunately, a lot of organisations focus just on just reaching...

Feb 10 - 2021

Fake News is a Fire - Don't let it burn down the house

These days it feels like all the news is about fake news. Everywhere you turn another theory about its cause, its impact, and its proposed solutions seem to pop up. But one thing is clear:...

Feb 10 - 2021

Meet Our Team: Weronika Paszewska

Tectonica is lucky to have one of the best teams on the planet. To help you get to know the amazing folks that make up our team, we'll be sharing interviews with different team members....

Feb 10 - 2021

Is it Time to Join the Club? Clubhouse and its Potential for Campaigns that Organise Online.

Author: Ned Howey We’ve been hearing a lot of excitement over the new Clubhouse app - excitement that was meant on our part, for the most part with a degree of scepticism. A new social...

Jan 29 - 2021

What to expect in the field of digital organising in 2021

Generally speaking, we are going to see more and more digital organising in the upcoming year. Based on The State of Digital Organising in Europe report, we know that there is a significant gap between what...

Jan 13 - 2021

The Audacity of Taking Risks: an interview with Lori Coleman

Despite a desire to bring positive change into the world, many of us often feel timid about jumping into organising large-scale systems-changing projects because we feel we don’t have enough experience or structural support. That’s...

Jan 13 - 2021

In Campaigning, Failure is Key to Success

Failure, mistake, errors - are a fundamental part of learning to be successful. And while failures can also be emotionally difficult, damaging, or in the worst case deadly - when treated with the right mindset,...

Dec 17 - 2020

Team Tectonica's Favourite Holiday Recipes

If I had to pick one word for 2020, I might have to go with CANCEL. Not only did the coronavirus force us to cancel pretty much everything -- travel plans, birthday parties, going into the...

Dec 17 - 2020

Our 2020 Year End Donations Recommendations

In a year where every aspect of our life has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, advocacy organisations have had to work around the clock to meet the increased needs of many of our communities....

Nov 26 - 2020

The hottest new political tech is one you're probably already using: important lessons on building your campaign tech stack.

Author: Alonso Hernández Sánchez There seems to be a never-ending conversation on what are the most effective technologies to power up digital campaigning. "What tools should we be using?" is always among the most frequent...

Nov 11 - 2020

People don’t become Activists Because of a Cause. (And That Gives me Hope.)

This is a blog post about why I believe our innate need for belonging, the theories of a lesser known 20th Century French philosopher, and a couple millennia of organised religion, make me think that...

Oct 21 - 2020

The Five-Part Framework for Digital Organising

Backstory: Earlier this year, we set out to evaluate Europe’s progressive digital organising efforts. We did this in part because we see a great deal of misunderstanding and disagreement around what digital organising is, and...