Blog

Feb 10 - 2022

Waffles and Civic Technology

Contributor: Alonso Hernández This week I represented Tectonica in Brussels, and I must say it was very exciting to have meetings in person again. There is nothing comparable to the energy of change that we...
Jan 27 - 2022

Organising Metrics: Flake Rate

Contributor: Weronika Paszewska Imagine you’re having a birthday and inviting your friends to the party. It is an important event for you, so you decided to make it more personal and send them text messages or...
Jan 27 - 2022

Tools for the Battlefield of Information and Knowledge

Contributor: Alonso Hernández Although today’s political discourse doesn’t exactly suffer from a surplus of rationality and common sense, it’s still important for organizers to have a solid command of the facts in order to build...
Jan 13 - 2022

Tectonica is lucky to have one of the best teams on the planet! Meet Oliver Kendall

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....
Jan 13 - 2022

Zooming Beyond Zoom

Contributor: Alonso Hernández Despite high hopes that we would be out of the woods vis-à-vis COVID by this time, the Omicron variant had other plans. It looks like we are yet again going to have...
Jan 13 - 2022

Did We Get It Right? A Look Back at Our 2021 Digital Organising Predictions

Contributor: Weronika Paszewska As humans, we like to be right - sometimes we are, and sometimes we’re not. At the beginning of last year, we made some predictions on What to expect in the field of...
Dec 22 - 2021

Sharing is caring. Team Tectonica’s self-care practices for inspiration

Contributors: Team Tectonica With our lives having changed so much over the past few years, it’s no wonder self-care has become such a widely-discussed topic. We have had to slow down, reflect, and rethink the...
Dec 22 - 2021

Our 2021 Year End Donations Recommendations

We believe that solidarity and mutual networks of support are crucial for the progressive world to be able to spread its values and also to be successful. The ability to hold and support each other...
Dec 09 - 2021

Tectonica is lucky to have one of the best teams on the planet! Meet Julia Juan Gimeno

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....
Dec 09 - 2021

Mighty Networks and Digital Organising through Community Platforms

Contributor: Alonso Hernández Our model for building political movements is rooted in the creation of collective power. We want to empower our supporters to hold different roles within their campaigns (with various levels of leadership)...
Nov 18 - 2021

Making “Theory of Change” Useful in Your Campaigning

Contributor: Ned Howey “Whatever you do, don't say the phrase ‘theory of change’ to our Executive Director,” warned one of my clients.

Nov 18 - 2021

Getting Back to Street Canvassing

Contributor: Alonso Hernández While the pandemic is not over and we are still far from declaring safety in this new reality, some outdoor campaigning practices (with the necessary safety protocols in place) are once again...