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On today’s episode, we’re speaking with Kim Allen, Founder and Captain of the Primal Glow Communications mothership. She has a wealth of experience in the nonprofit sector and is now a consultant who works with not-for-profit and public sector organizations to build their digital capacity.
We recently collaborated with Kim on building a private and secure online chat service that is just starting to roll out to sexual assault support centres across Ontario. In our conversation today, we take a deep dive into how she brought this project and team together and what she learned from a very unconventional development process.
Look at what we made!! ~~~~~> Safe Support Chat
Connect with Kim at Primal Glow Communications
See what else we've been working on at Nomadic Labs
What we talked about:
- How she transitioned from public radio to the nonprofit sector to becoming a technology consultant
- How and why we built Safe Support Chat
- Using off-the-shelf software vs building a custom solution
- The value of research and experimentation
- Pitching a project at Civic Tech Toronto and finding “nerdy generosity”
- Connecting with the right people who understand the project and learning from them
- Engaging with volunteers and hackathons
- Reflections on building a open-source software application
In this episode, we are speaking with Rachel Kohut from the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL). Rachel’s work in public health and legal advocacy has covered many important issues including sexual and reproductive rights, sexual health, maternal health, access to medicines and intellectual property, housing rights, and domestic violence and sexual assault.
Now, at NAWL, she is the director of a project called Rebuilding Feminist Law Reform Capacity.
We talked about digital advocacy and making information accessible, among other things:
- A short history of NAWL
- Challenges and motivation for redesigning the Feminist Law Reform 101 online course
- Editing complex and long content for the web
- Reaching out and collaborating with the artistic community
- Using social media effectively to build real connections
- The value of user research and creating “room to dream”
- Avoiding perfectionism and learning to experiment and take risks
Guest: Rachel Kohut from the National Association of Women and the Law
Hosts: Sharon Kennedy and Luisa Ji from Nomadic Labs
Theme music: "If" by Broke for Free
This week we spoke with Alisha Bhagat, futurist and senior strategist at Forum for the Future. Forum for the Future is an international non-profit that works with business, government and civil society to solve complex challenges using futures thinking and systems thinking.
Alisha, like many others, is now working fully remotely due to the COVID-19 crisis. In our conversation, we compared notes on some of our struggles and successes of working from home.
We talked our way through a pile of great topics:
- quarantine fashion
- switching from a time-based workday to a task-based workday
- getting into a flow state
- defeating the procrastination monster
- taking self-expression to the next level in Zoom calls
- meaningful meetings
- how organizations can make the remote working experience better for their teams
- finding inspiration, learning opportunities and challenges outside of work
This episode is equal parts commiseration, practical advice, and speculation on how this massive work-from-home movement could have lasting changes in our work and home lives.
Guest: Alisha Bhagat from Forum for the Future
Hosts: Sharon Kennedy and Luisa Ji from Nomadic Labs
Theme music: "If" by Broke for Free
Our first podcast episode to mark our second year as a company! Sharon and Luisa interview each other to reflect on what we've learned from two years of design+tech consulting and building a business to serve the nonprofit sector.
Our conversation covers a lot of ground:
- how and why we started our company
- what led us to the design/tech sector from our very different backgrounds
- what we've learned from doing business with nonprofits
- expectation vs reality of running a digital agency
- our hopes and dreams for the future!
Theme music: 'If' by Broke for Free