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Sho Walker-Konno

@shokon.bsky.social
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💼Comms coach for activists. ℹ️Work, resources, and videos about progressive communications at showalkerkonno.com 📍Amsterdam, NL. He/Him

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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The best Harvard Business review article I've ever seen? Side-by-side test of a 'good' strategy visualisation slide vs a 'bad' one of the same strategy. Both still pretty basic design most people could pull off in G-Slides. By João Cotter Salvado and Freek Vermeulen. via @firetail.bsky.social
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
How to measure something as complex (and hyped) as 'narrative change'? Concise article on latest thinking: - 3 'buckets' (Culture, StratComms, Organising) & how they blend - 4 steps to start with (most only do #1 & #2) - 4 principles ("Focus on contribution > attribution") ssir.org/articles/ent...
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How to Measure Narrative Change (SSIR)
Organizations committed to social change through storytelling can use this four-part framework to design and evaluate their narrative strategies.
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
In another case of "actually quite good comms by EU leadership?!" This disinformation 'factcheck' post is: ✅ Lighthearted ✅ References the lie without repeating it ✅ Ascribes motivation to the liars to help innoculate Vs future disinformation ✅ Squeezes in proactive message
X post by @Elysee: "When European unity becomes inconvenient, disinformation goes so far as to make a simple tissue look like drugs.

This fake news is being spread by France’s enemies, both abroad and at home. We must remain vigilant against manipulation."
 Photo on left is close of up of tissue on table "This is a tissue. For blowing your nose". Photo in right is zoomed out photo of EU leaders including Sarkozy next to table: "This is European unity. To build peace."
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Great blog for people like me and most of the orgs I work with who worry about compromised US tech services but feel: "well, even if it's not legal, at least you'd be wrong with everyone else". Along with very practical steps and Martijn's own experience this gives a lot of reassurance its possible
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Politics of arms-races aside, I am unequivocably in favour of EU figures using original and (you've got to hand it to VDL) baddass heavy-metal language. Is "steel porcupine" literally Freudian? Can't find any other reference. @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social www.freud.org.uk/collections/...
Freud museum collection: "This intriguing Metal figure of a porcupine with quills sat on Freud’s desk from 1909 onwards. Its individually crafted quills are decorative but sharp."
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
151 years ago John Stuart Mill had a response to "natural = better" that works equally well for conservative anti-gender, survival-of-the-fittest arguments as it does for your in-laws' opinions on groceries & medicines. Great shout by @amandaruggeri.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...
In his 1874 essay On Nature, this was one of the main problems with making "appeals to nature" that philosopher John Stuart Mill pointed out. "Either it is right that we should kill because nature kills; torture because nature tortures; ruin and devastate because nature does the like; or we ought not to consider at all what nature does, but do what it is good to do." In other words: if the premise of the appeal to nature is correct that anything "natural" must be better, because it's natural, then we have to be willing to embrace everything that comes from nature. If we aren't, well, we probably don't really believe something is inherently better because it's natural.
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PIRC @publicinterest.org.uk · 06/02/2025
A few years ago, we worked with NEON, @350.org, and a bunch of grassroots groups across the UK on Framing Climate Justice. We wanted to work out how to communicate about climate change in ways that would lead to wide-scale action, and stay grounded in racial justice values framingclimatejustice.org
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Home | Framing Climate Justice
A 12-month project bringing together organisers from across the climate movement to tell the stories that matter, and strengthen our movement in the fight for justice.
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Exhibit #749 of 'making life easier for minorities eventually makes life easier for all of us': the only images anyone can 'see' today on BlueSky are the ones with Alt Text.
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Why is "the world's worst humanitarian disaster" (150k dead, 11million displaced) getting even less than usual media coverage? Summary of brutally honest & practical journalist feedback for NGOs by @markgalloway.bsky.social for @bondngo.bsky.social. I'd add... www.bond.org.uk/news/2025/01...
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Sudan – the media challenge | Bond
Earlier this week, the International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) hosted a discussion between journalists and charity directors with the aim of increasing media coverage of Sudan. IBT Director, Mark Gallo...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22/01/2025
A Dutch court today ruled that Prime Minister Dick Schoof’s government must ramp up efforts to cut nitrogen pollution in protected nature areas, handing Greenpeace Netherlands a significant legal win.
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Dutch government ordered to cut nitrogen pollution — or face €10M fine
Greenpeace’s victory means that PM Dick Schoof must achieve emission-reduction targets by 2030 or face the penalty.
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Gregory Davis @gregorydavishnh.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
👏 Fantastic BBC Wales documentary tonight following a brave undercover journalist infiltrating the vile Patriotic Alternative group. Also includes a shout-out for @hopenothate.org.uk from a PA activist who lost his job at HMRC after we exposed his violent racism: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Thinking Doing Changing @tashahester.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"The old world is dying & the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters" Gramsci more relevant than ever! I developed a power mapping tool based on Gramscian hegemony with academic & activist colleagues. We could see neoliberal democracy coming apart / losing its hold...
Graph shows world maturity on left vertical axis & time on horizontal axis & 2 lines, one showing the old world dying & another the new world struggling to be born - in between in 'the time of monster's - filled with monster emojis
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Social media firms' advertising strategy in the EU: 🇳🇱 In the Netherlands (ban on phones in school just started nationwide) Instagram's ad emphasises "strongest, in-built protection for teenage accounts" 🇪🇺 In the Brussels bubble's favourite newsletter, TikTok (despite imminent US ban) very similar
Billboard poster by Instagram: [Dutch] "Instagram tieneraccounts hebben onze sterkste, ingebouwde bescherming" [English] "Teenage Instagram accounts have our strongest, in-built protection"Politico Brussels Playbook newsletter "presented by TikTok: **A message from TikTok: All accounts belonging to our under-16 users are automatically set to private and restricted. This means that they can't access direct messaging, their video content cannot be downloaded and only friends can comment on their videos.**"
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Its become unfashionable/naive to say it, but democracy is still the 'least worst' way of protecting a revolution. A very timely study from @kbclarke.bsky.social @annemeng.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social analyses 84 times a regime has been overthrown since 1900... osf.io/preprints/os...
Violent Origins and Authoritarian Order: Divergent Trajectories after Successful Rebellions. 
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Existing research demonstrates that many authoritarian regimes originating in violent rebellion are exceptionally durable. By contrast, conflict scholarship emphasizes the difficulty of reestablishing order after civil war. Using original data on every regime founded by successful rebellion worldwide from 1900–2020, we demonstrate that rebel regimes follow divergent trajectories: the vast majority are either long-lived (20+ years) or short-lived (less than 5 years). The structure of the founding rebellion explains these divergent trajectories by shaping power- sharing dynamics in the new regime and the nature of conflict recurrence. Regimes founded by unified rebellions (single rebel group) become highly durable autocracies because members credibly share power within the same rebel group. By contrast, regimes founded by fractured rebellions (multiple rebel groups) are usually short-lived. Leaders must attempt to share power across armed rivals, many of whom defect and stage subsequent rebellions. Other rebellion characteristics, like social revolution and leftist ideology, cannot explain these differences.
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Jesse Wise 🍉 @jessewise.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is a great shame, particularly given disruptive climate protests generate support for more moderate groups. shorturl.at/SJOoE
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How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement - Nature Sustainability
Our study provides real-world evidence that disruptive climate protests can increase support for more moderate climate organizations, referred to as a positive radical flank effect. A widely publicize...
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
We can and must take back control of renewable energy, because democratic public ownership is the only way to get to where the world needs to go. And it'll be faster, fairer, greener, and cheaper for us individually on the way. Some snippets from a mini-framing investigation alongside this report ⬇️
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Iceland's snap election is Saturday. Predictably parties are trying an anti "vók" (woke) gambit, but LGBTI group @samtokin78.bsky.social has quickly gathered feminists and also mainstream children's rights groups like UNICEF & Save the Children in a joint statement: "We will not let this pass"...
Instagram post from Icelandic LGBTI group Samtokin '78. Icelandic text: "Við látum þetta ekki yfir okkur ganga." (auto-translation: "We're not going to let this pass")
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I have the fortune/misfortune to encounter a lot of 'activism-adjacent' artists and the unsaid 2nd half of this sentence is "art is not about politics or solving problems - that would be too much more effort than just appropriating a 'political vibe' to make my art seem more topical"
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Cool session on something everyone says they need but don't talk enough about details: social movement + NGO collaboration. Lineup of movement researchers, @amnestyuk.bsky.social campaigners, activists and political scientists from Africa, Latin America & Europe. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Collaborative Synergy: Harnessing the Power of Social Movements and NGOs Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the me...
Partnerships between social movements and NGOs hold immense potential for social change. By leveraging their strengths, fostering mutual empowerment, and addressing key challenges, collaborative partn...
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Some videos about comms based on my work with activists around the world. 1): Progressives sometimes despair that right-wing populists are just better at communications. I disagree - let’s take a tour of conservative communications cock-ups to learn from their mistakes. youtube.com/watch?v=wQiA...
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Sho Walker-Konno @shokon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I took MEA on one of my last flights out of Beirut, and I remember how much everyday conversation centred on the last remaining airlines serving Ebola-era Freetown, and post-Kony northern Uganda. Strong potential for a Le Carre-style novel in this.
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