Thanks everyone who were able to participate in the lab!!! And to those of you who missed it… we missed you too! We will soon publish a summary of the event on our blog, but for now, here are some links that was shared during the event by the speakers and in the chat.
I have tried to categorise the tools mentioned according to “The Trinity of Digital Comms Tools” from https://www.thehum.org as mentioned above and presented during the lab.
Realtime chat
Here I have tried to list them in a rough order of most secure, privacy friendly and open, to least, but please research a bit about the security of messaging apps before you pick one…
- Signal
- Matrix / Element (Civic Tech Sweden has a room)
- Rocket.Chat (Used on https://chat.civictech.se)
- Mattermost
- Telegram
- Slack
For audio chats, these two were also mentioned, but not so sure about their security, except that you should be careful with Clubhouse… (You can read more about Clubhouse and integrity in Swedish here)
Asynchronous threads
- Discourse (Used e.g. here on https://forum.civictech.se and on https://forum.solikyl.se/. Both Collective.tools through @Petter and @Andreas and Edgeryders through @Hugi offers help with Discourse installation and hosting!)
- Loomio
- Decidim (Digital platform for citizen participation used by e.g. Digidem Lab in collaboration with many cities and municipalites.)
Static documents
Francesca Pick’s presentation
- https://www.ouishare.net/
- https://greaterthan.works/
- https://www.enspiral.com/
- https://cobudget.co/
- https://www.loomio.org/join/group/AkmdXJMdZatEC7Rtn7RCUeAd/
- https://hub.gendao.org/for-active-members/community-connectivity
- https://handbook.ouishare.net/guides-and-toolkits/collaboration-tools
Hugi Ásgeirsson’s presentation
- https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lTc32DM=/
- https://talk.theborderland.se/advice/ (Loomio)
- https://forum.blivande.com/ (Discourse)
- https://edgeryders.eu/ (Discourse)
- http://platoproject.org/
Tools for password management
- https://bitwarden.com/
- https://keepass.info/
- https://1password.com/
- http://newpass.etc.se/ (it generates passwords on the client side so only your browser will see the password)
Tool for creating visuals
- https://www.canva.com (Free for nonprofits) https://www.canva.com/canva-for-nonprofits/)
Tools for finding a meeting time
Digital teambuilding activities
There were a lot of good conversations in the chat. Even if the lab was about tools you guys also had suggestions on teambuilding excercises. Maybe this can be inspiration for a future lab? Here’s what you wrote:
- https://toolbox.hyperisland.com/
- https://kahoot.com/ quizzes
- https://gather.town/
- Show a random picture or a painting (ideally ridiculous) in a video conference and give 1 minute to everyone to deactivate their camera, run around their room to grab any objects they can find and try to reproduce the scene from the picture. Can give you hilarious results.
- Drawing games where you let people draw things on a board.
- Dance Monkey tutorial