Case study: organising space - powering a community of practice at UNISON, by Monica Hirst, Strategic Organising, Planner, UNISON. UNISON are building a learning community, enabling activists and staff to connect, learn, research and share organising knowledge, best practices and experience. Monica discusses the community's launch through to implementation, encouraging hearts and minds.

1. A new Community for
activists and staff

2. About us at UNISON
Monica Hirst – Strategic Organising Planner
Strategic organising and recruitment unit
UNISON Centre

3. Why do we need the Organising
Space?

4. Why do we need the Organising
Space?

5. The Organising Space is..
• Open to all activists and staff
• Employed, Branch employed staff, Activists
and New Representatives
• Dynamic
• Partly self-moderating
• Experiential learning
• Creative
• Networking

6. Development
From our paper prototype….

7. Launch

8. Development
…to the Organising Space

9. Save your experiences

10. Share your experiences in your
Community

11. Ask your Community a question

12. Check out ever-growing curated
content

13. Find great content from the community

14. View the latest, most popular content
...and score points

15. Getting the message out there

16. The Initial Feedback
• Stephanie from Bath
“I foresee a long long evening tonight playing with
this tool”
• Ryan from Glasgow
“Really impressed with the Organising Space! The
recruitment bit will come in very handy. I'm looking
forward to getting more involved in the discussions
too. Cheers!”

17. User feedback
• Steph from Wales
“Thanks very much for this, feel really UNISON'd
up now!”
• Moira from Hereford
“I think I have just found my UNISON bible”

18. The Next Steps
• New developments
• Events – Training and active courses
• January – next launch
• Target of 1,000 users by February 2015

19. Join the community