The FabBlog

The FabBlog contains posts about learnings we’ve made through our work.


Since starting up my own blog, I’ve developed an obsession with checking my webstats.  I average about 30 unique visits a day, which I think is quite healthy.  My audience could be broadly defined as people who are interested in technology capacity building for grassroots advocacy with marginalised communities.  I […]

My Blog Post is on Digg, Now What?


I was recently in Kiev, for Tactical Studios, running a training on Social Media for the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, GIZ and Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe. To be fair, not everyone in the training was a drug user – there were advocates from a variety of different marginalised communities that were being […]

What I Learned from Drug Users


Please note: a new version of this exercise is now available: Using the Spectrogram for Stakeholder Mapping and Power Analysis. Or Using Power Analysis to Identify Technology Tactics for your Campaign in Three Easy Steps. Background: Understanding how any technology that you use in campaigning functions as a tactic to […]

The Half Wheel & The Pyramid (Step 1 of 3)