Transitioning to a Remote Team

Many organizing groups need to transition to remote teams and fully online organizing during the COVID-19 period.

This webinar was offered in late March/early April 2020 at no cost during 3 time zones to make it accessible to people across the globe. It was attended by over 1,500 people live.

Contributions towards the recording contribute to the cost of providing the sessions and help support future rapid response webinars. SMT is a non-profit/NGO whose training work is supported entirely from registration fees.

Captioned in 7 languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Bahasa, Arabic, and French.

We will continue to add good examples and information on tools and practices to the slide deck so it serves as an ongoing resource. The community document is fully editable so it can also serve as an ongoing community resource.

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Content:

• Transition considerations
• Tech stack (tools combination) options for remote team collaboration and management. Discussion includes free and low-cost tools as well as tools useful for small and larger teams.
• Ways to maximize "face time" with colleagues, members and leaders when in-person face time is not possible
• Digital security implications
• Online training options
• Process best practices for implementation
• Staff policies/practices guide (we're starting to collect/develop a template for this and will add it)

Here's the session on Organizing during Physical Isolation.

Photo Credit: Joshua Windsor, Instagram (@josh.michael.windsor). 2020

Comments from registrants:

"The wealth of tools & community rating for usefulness is so useful & also really helps to give a sense of the digital organizing community." Emma Galbraith, Organizer, Sunrise Austin