Livestreaming for Organizing

Livestreaming has become an important organizing tool for building our activist base, fundraising, amplifying action, and pressuring targets.

This training is for beginner to intermediate level livestreamers and those who’ve never touched it.

Some of what is covered by 8 instructors:

• When to use livestreaming and when it’s better not to
• Best practices for particular use cases
• How to build attendance
• How to build engagement during the event, including tools that help
• Setting up effective calls to action
• Tool comparison for multistreaming and additional features
• Roles you’ll want to fill
• Meeting the needs of a multilingual audience, and live captioning
• Why stream to particular channels like TwitchTV
• Adding lower thirds and other text overlays as well as bringing engagement on screen
• and more…

A livestreaming tool comparison spreadsheet that is updated regularly is included in this course.

SMT has experienced livestream team members ready to help meet movement groups' livestream needs including tool selection, coaching, problem-solving and help running livestreams.

* Captioning in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, Bahasa.

Photo: 2,000+ Israelis demonstrate in Tel Aviv to protest against a possible alliance between centrist leader Gantz and current prime minister Netanyahu. Signs read “I will not be silent while my country’s face is changing.” (April 2020) [EPA-EFE, ABIR SULTAN]