This week we moved to generating our potential solutions, and it certainly felt a relief to be moving to the next phase having completed such rich user research. The ideas were flowing. We also upped the pace on progress. In our weekly operational meeting on Tuesday we passed a proposal…

Ah, time! I was enjoying writing these weeknotes but I’ve felt a bit overwhelmed over the past couple of weeks balancing a visa application with Covid + work. I will do my best to recap what we’ve been doing. But first, here’s what Kevin from SLiDE has been doing across…

Week 7 has been short and busy. Here’s a round up of what we did this week… We started the week on Tuesday with a CRM show and tell. Quite a few of the charities have realised that they need one place to access details of their service users and…

Uh-oh, I forgot to post this on Thursday before the best bank holiday weekend of the year started. So before we dive into a new week, I’ll recount what we did last week. (Also, Karen from Home-Start sent me her week notes and I felt really bad about not posting…

We started this week with a masterclass based on Sprint 2’s theme: Creating online communities. It was an international affair, because a) we’re all online anyway so let’s not restrict ourselves with location and b) communities don’t need to restrict themselves to borders. Our speakers were: Ruth Pethybridge, a dance…

Helping eight charities define and prototype solutions to their remote communication challenges. — My name is Kayleigh and I work at Outlandish. We’re a tech worker co-op (that just means we’re worker owned and controlled). …

It’s a question often considered by senior execs in the charity world: which Content Management System (CMS) should we use for our website? For the digital teams that sit beneath them — who are perhaps pressing these same execs for a CMS change — there tends to be more awareness…

Last Thursday (17th October 2019) I experienced with great pride an Outlandish monthly meeting where there were not even the same amount of women as men, contributing the same and respected the same, there were THREE TIMES as many women as there were men present. Nine females to three men. …

Outlandish has been using Sociocracy as its main decision making process for over 6 years, as well as its governance structure (tldr: business responsibilities are organised in self-elected circles) for over 3. We wrote a blog post many moons ago heralding its introduction so I wanted to provide an evidence…