How we communicate

Our main communication tools are brought together on The Hub.

To get onto the Hub, you will need to be invited by the Tech Champion of your group (if you don’t know who that is, ask your internal coordinator).

After using commercial apps, our tools may initially take a little getting used to, but to help you find your way around we have the following trainings:

Our organising tools

Mattermost (our main platform for communication) - chat
UK Forums – longer discussions

Sometimes we start a conversation on Mattermost, then realise the thread is growing and so we’ll move it to the forum so that it doesn’t get lost.

UK Cloud Storage – private file storage
Hub circles – XR structure

Sometimes we use commercial platforms too (for particular purposes):

Signal

Many groups use Signal for planning Actions (some use Telegram instead.) Messages can be set to disappear within a particular time limit.

Telegram

As well as using Telegram for Actions, we have a New Rebels channel where people new to XR can get help, support and connections to help them find their way into XR. To access this, you need to attend a ‘Welcome to XR’ session (T&T).

Our news channels

1. …for talking to each other

UK Broadcasts We have two news channels which you can access via Telegram or Mattermost (broadcast only, no chat):

These are a great way of getting regular, concise and up to date news as it happens.

Newsletters (by email) UK newsletter (completing this form also signs you up to the XR Global Newsletter). Many regions and local groups send out newsletters too, as do various campaigns.

Inside XR: a short internal newsletter aimed mainly at coordinators of the central UK teams (although anyone can subscribe)

To unsubscribe from a newsletter, click the link at the bottom of it. Because we are a decentralised movement, different newsletters are sent from different places and you may need to unsubscribe more than once if you want everything to stop.

2. …for also talking to the public
Websites
Social media

Since the mainstream media refuse to cover the majority of our work, these channels are a vital way we share our message. We use social media to: share news about our actions, effects of our work and the work of others connect with each other and with people and organisations with power organise together in groups and create public events to share

See ‘Supporter Rebel’ for ways to make our social media posts more effective.

Our main, UK-level, social media channels:

Local Groups and Community Groups often have their own social media accounts. Some of the larger ones have their own websites too.


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Created 12 January 2021 14:44:11 by Michelle Barnes
Updated 28 December 2021 16:36:55 by Charles Wicksteed