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Learn how to make a participatory and community centered CommsLab, Transfeminist tech and further information, recommendations and resources.
How to choose the format that suits your online event best?
When choosing the format of your event, it’s challenging to find one-fits-all as you would want to balance your goal, content, accessibility options, safety and technology choice. Will it be a real-time synchronous or asynchronous event, or perhaps a mix of tw...
Credits and acknowledgements
The CommsLabs Blueprint 2.0 was co-created by a group of people offering their knowledge and experiences.
Which technology/platform to choose?
Essential to your event design are the technological platforms and tools that will be used. This determines accessibility, opportunities and possible limitations for your event. Be flexible and make sure the team designing the event involve technologists. They...
4.1. Planning together
A convening is the result of teamwork that engages not only the hosting programme/team but also most of the Operations and Organisational development teams: People, Systems and Operations, Finance, Tech, MEL, as well as NetDev, Comms and Resource Mobilisation ...
Documentation design and preserving memories
Documentation can be utilized to the extent of easing the entire process of event preparation and further used as your organisational and community archive for community knowledge building. Not only does it serve your participants for preparation and the navig...
4.2. Communication strategy and output
Language(s): Translation, interpretation, closed captioning
When it comes to translation, interpretation, closed captioning and global online convenings and events held in multiple languages with hundreds of participants in different time zones, here are some lessons learned from APC experience: Consider having your...
4.3. Roles involved in convening cycle
Self and collective care: How do we nurture, rest and play?
We’ve learned from our histories and lived realities within the oppressive and exploitative ableist systems and gender norms that precarity, poverty, structural discrimination and exclusion perpetuate and deepen the red flags of our vulnerability. Those red fl...
4.4 Convening timeline
How to plan your budget and costs
Planning and carrying out an online event also has cost implications both for you as an organiser and for your participants. Connecting remotely opens up different variables related to the infrastructure around your event, event planning and implementation, as...
4.5 Convening platforms, tools and repository
Logistics Advisory
4.6. Budget and finance
Communications plan for your event
Start with a plan. Preparing in advance is key. A communications / cover plan for your event will help you decide the information that should be published and prepare the messaging accordingly. Here are the elements we include in our event communications plan:...