Ted Fickes

Editor, writer and strategist

All stories by Ted Fickes

City of Dreams: How millions are now voting to stop climate change
What just happened? A look back at the stories of 2017
CANVAS: Stopping the autocrats with creative activism
Using Facebook Live to build and amplify your movement
Want to fund the resistance? Test everything.
CampaignCon 2016: We are here to change the world
What’s on the mind of global campaigners?
Democratising direct action
Handheld devices put livestreaming to work on campaigns
Pay attention and win: Lessons from Brasil
Learn how 3 years of Big Listening (and testing) may change your campaigning
How to run a campaign hackathon
Online product reviews a growing frontier for corporate campaigning
Put the power to change global air quality in people’s hands
Digital campaigning in the age of marmots
Breakthrough’s Board the Bus campaign reaches millions across India
Researching the sharp edges of the Internet’s double-edged sword
How to push back against online intimidation
Tinfoil hats are not just for the paranoid
Recipe for change in 2013: Open platforms, big listening, emotion and boots on the ground
#IFoundTheLetter campaign’s big ask puts fun into human rights activism
Greenpeace Spain integrates data and mobilisation to push campaign power to people
Nonprofits collect data but do they use it? NTEN and Idealware report looks at the state of nonprofit data
Test results: Personalized ‘thank you’ raises more money, increases engagement
Secret Agents power citizen science, help protect Lebanese coast
Record-breaking street team recruitment in Chile: teamwork trumps departments
Social media engagement FTW: Lessons from Greenpeace Brasil’s growth
How network analysis tracks stories and builds stronger campaigns
Petition delivery with iPad shows new signatures as they happen
Looking for Chainsaw Barbie: How volunteers and a plastic doll helped the Indonesian rainforest
Geocaching for fun and citizen engagement
How Greenpeace France got 13,000 to thank nuclear activists online and offline (VIDEO)
Take a (submarine) dive in the Bering Sea: A build your own story campaign
Integrated teams in action: Stories from Argentina (VIDEO)
SpeedGeeking: Rapid sharing of creativity and innovation
Integrated mobilisation in Spain: Just add data team (VIDEO)
Three secrets of integrated campaigns: stories from Argentina
Missed calls help in campaign to protect Indian forests
Digital mobilisation hits the ground running: What we read in the year of Occupy, the Arab Spring, and Keystone XL
Internet goes dark to begin weaving a fabric of mobilisation
Radical listening: “supporters know best” in Greenpeace Argentina (VIDEO)