I am Alex White, a progressive campaign strategist, writer, social marketer and policy activist.
Activists, delegates and volunteers are the lifeblood of campaigning organisations like unions. Effective campaigning means keeping a track of your activists and delegates, and to do that, you need a proper database. There are myriad databases out there, some purpose built for membership organisations and others built for campaigns with beginnings and ends. Selecting the right [...]
Opinion polls in Australia, like in the USA and England, exercise a powerful influence upon our elected leaders and the media. The weekly and fortnightly polls shape the media landscape, as journalists breathlessly report on the horse-race: are they up this week or down? And there’s no doubt that consistently poor opinion polls have been [...]
Every decision we make is influenced by countless different external factors. But some of the most powerful influences on our decisions, attitudes and behaviours are internal. These influences can be major roadblocks for progressive organisations and causes, especially unions, as they can affect our judgements and actions in subtle and not so subtle ways. It’s important [...]
Here’s my article at The Guardian Environment, about what Australian climate groups face and what environment groups can learn from the “Say Yes” campaign and the “No KXL” / “No Tar Sands” campaign In Australia, decades of hard-fought conservation gains are at risk of being wiped out after 14 September. That’s when the incumbent Labor government [...]
This weekend, two Federal Ministers, Chris Evans and Nicola Roxon, announced their resignation from politics. While pundits will write hundreds of column inches about the significance of these resignations and what it means for an election over seven months away, there are some immediate consequences for campaigning organisations. In the US, when Hillary Clinton resigned [...]