I've just returned from my talk at the NCVO. Thanks to everyone who came along and made it an interesting event. I'm happy to say the attendees threw themselves enthusiastically into a rather unusual communications exercise, and had a collection of interesting questions for me at the end. I really enjoyed the event, and I hope the attendees took some interesting ideas away with them. I did hear talk of at least a couple of people considering restructuring their campaigns based on ideas I'd been discussing, so I think that's a win…
Over the next few days, as time permits, I'm going to be posting up some further thoughts from the talk and hopefully expanding on the themes a little. One of the frustrations of doing these events is that I've always got more to say than I have time to cover, and when I leave I'm bubbling over with other ideas for things I wish I'd had been able to discuss. But blogs are an ideal outlet for such overflow.
I also just wanted to post my thanks to Chloe Stables for organising the event and inviting me along in the first place – you were as helpful and charming as ever.
Thanks James – that's really kind of you. I think the talk was a great success – fascinating to learn about some of the EI techniques which have such relevance to lobbying and campaigning.
I found it really useful to step back and think about the tone of our messages – often we all shy away from engaging with people that don't agree with us and this was an important reminder of the necessity of that -as well as some helpful tips on how to do it!
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