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Press contacts lists
This is a list of all the media lists for the UK Nations & Regions currently held by XRUK M&M. These spreadsheets are "read only" to avoid anyone messing with them but they are collaborative tools. If you want to edit one, please get in touch with your regiona...
How to take great photos
Content In a great image, a viewer can immediately get the message you want them to understand without reading any supporting text. What story does your image tell? What energy does it convey, what emotion? Think of these elements when taking photos. Top Tips ...
Share your photos
There are two ways to contribute your photos: direct to the XR Media Library ‘Picture Desk’ or via XRUK Live Action Content Telegram channel. 🔹 Professionals and competent amateurs should upload directly to the XR Media Library - 'Picsio'. 🔹 Less confident ama...
How to take great videos
Basic principles Videography follows many of the same principles as photography, but you might vary how you do it depending on what the video is being used for. Audio is important - Try to get a quiet location or use headphones with a microphone to get better ...
How to livestream
Start here if you want to learn how to livestream an action! Get started Here are a few questions to ask yourself before visiting our other pages on the subject. 🔹 When? When is the action? When does it need to be livestreamed? (for example: a specific speech...
Interview & Presentating skills
Get ready to present a livestream and interview participants with these slides.
What is Media & Messaging?
Do you want to make your group, event or action more visible and reach more people? M&M (for short) is all about public comms: promoting XR's work, actions and events, using social media and traditional media such as newspapers. It's about raising awareness of...
The Big One (12 Feb)
Slides and recording Here are the Open Call slides and also you can watch the recording on YouTube
What is Action Support?
In order to succeed, actions need to be planned with a surrounding web of support. ‘Support’ means rebels in low-arrest-risk roles take on responsibilities before, during and after the action, which vary according to the action design. These can include: liai...
Spokesperson (doing media interviews)
Check out these training slides (including the slide notes). You can also watch this 1-hour training video. Get preparing What is the one message you want to get across in this interview? What do you hope the person who is listening will remember? What do you...
Moderation & Community Management
General Guidelines Moderating entails keeping the comments on posts positive and constructive by answering the argumentative ones, hiding or deleting comments that are too bad or negative, and engaging with trolls or people being rude, to get them to follow th...
Applying for an @extinctionrebellion.uk email account
This page explains which groups are eligible for XR email addresses, and how groups can apply. Is your group eligible? The following types of group may be issued with @extinctionrebellion.uk email addresses : region/nation groups local groups region/nation wo...
The Vault
The Vault is a password manager hosted by XR using BitWarden/Vaultwarden software. It is a place for XR groups to securely store and share the passwords to their online accounts. What is a password manager? A password manager is a tool that lets you store all ...
How to Use Mattermost
Read this document to get familiar with Mattermost. It is used to communicate with XR groups as well as have 1-to-1 conversations. You can also watch this video for a general introduction to Mattermost and its benefits. KEY INFO: Channels = Group chats Teams ...
Forums
What are UK Forums? UK Forums have a slightly different purpose to Mattermost – here's a summary: Mattermost is for: instant chat, that may sometimes be lost in the stream of messages asking someone for help finding a person or Group Forums are for: focused...
The Cloud
What is UK Cloud? UK Cloud is a place for Extinction Rebellion members to create, store, and share documents securely with each another. With it, you can collaboratively edit Office documents, making it a great alternative to tools such as Google Docs or Micro...
Big Blue Button Basics
Big Blue Button, or BBB, is an alternative to Zoom. It is free to use, and there are no time limits on using it. BBB is at meet2.organise.earth Choose Big Blue Button because: it's free to use, gives unlimited time, you can run as many meetings as you like at...
Change your login name (handle)
If you want a different login name (known as your Handle on Mattermost), you need to change this on the Hub. n.b Please be aware that if you change your Login name, this will re-create your Cloud account. If anyone has shared files and/or folders with you o...
Video Guides to help you learn
This page contains links to video content that can be shared with your local groups to help get them on board with the new systems. Feel free to use whichever you find most helpful. Accepting a Hub invite and how to access support: https://tube.rebellion.globa...
Using the Hub: The Basics
This is the Hub home page. Here you can see links to many of XRUK's services. Click on any of the icons to go to them. Most browsers allow you to click while holding the Ctrl key to open the link in a new tab. The grey area at the top contains links to traini...