{"id":18765,"date":"2023-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techforgood.cymru\/resource\/what-is-working-in-the-open-for-non-profits\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T08:14:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T07:14:08","slug":"what-is-working-in-the-open-for-non-profits","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/promo.cymru\/cy\/resource-articles\/what-is-working-in-the-open-for-non-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"What is working in the open for charities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"\">The Open Working Line-up (OWL) is a team of people helping Catalyst-funded charities work in the open and reuse existing tools and technologies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Working in the open is as simple as sharing your work with others &#8211; inside or outside your organisation &#8211; and using work that\u2019s been done by others to help you with your project.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">\u2018Work\u2019 might be an asset &#8211; such as a set of user personas &#8211; or it might be learnings and reflections from someone who\u2019s done something that you\u2019re thinking of doing. By sharing and learning from others, we can make more progress, more quickly and help more people. And of course, it saves money and time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"\" class=\"w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center\" data-rt-type=\"image\" data-rt-align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1xoeOOsElD0Pk6XCHsbmNKPo22xZ6EnubRuToZsLGbSo\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/promo.cymru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/6048aaba418585538e7e1e40_Working-in-the-open-one-pager-blog-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Click image to get plain text version\" id=\"\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<p id=\"\"><strong id=\"\">What are the OWLs doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul id=\"\">\n<li id=\"\">Educating Catalyst-funded charities on how to work in the open<\/li>\n<li id=\"\">Helping make research and design assets open for others to see and use, e.g. user need statements, personas, research findings<\/li>\n<li id=\"\">Helping Catalyst-funded charities publish their learning e.g. as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecatalyst.org.uk\/services\/service-recipes\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Service Recipes<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"\">Helping those charities to consider reuse in plans and testing processes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"\"><strong id=\"\">Why is working in the open important?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Working in the open has a lot of benefits &#8211; and that\u2019s as well as making you feel good. By learning how to communicate what you\u2019re doing and learning, you&#8217;ll be able to do things like get buy-in from stakeholders internally, put together stronger funding bids or get input from your peers in the community.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">By learning from those who have gone before you, you\u2019ll build on existing learning and it could help you to make the right decision for your organisation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">You should also be able to save time &#8211; and money &#8211; from re-using work that\u2019s already been done, which will mean you\u2019ll be able to see results more quickly.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Working in the open is reciprocal &#8211; just as you benefit from others\u2019 work, so others benefit from you sharing your stories and assets. You\u2019re ready to share when you\u2019ve learned something and you\u2019re able to tell someone else about it. And don\u2019t worry, it doesn\u2019t have to be polished or perfect.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\"><strong id=\"\">Who are the OWLs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Ross McCulloch is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/thirdsectorlab.co.uk\/\" id=\"\">Third Sector Lab<\/a> &#8211; helping charities, social entrepreneurs and community groups get the most out of digital.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Marlous Lang-Peterse is a project manager at Third Sector Lab, having previously worked in international theatre and festival management.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Matthew McStravick is creative director at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepr.cc\/\" id=\"\">relational design studio Deepr<\/a>, where his work straddles service, systems and culture design for a sustainable future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Joe Roberson is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workingwithjoe.co.uk\/\" id=\"\">service designer, content designer<\/a> and founded MOMO, a multi-award winning social care app that he grew into one of the UK\u2019s most successful tech for good startups.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\">Christine Cawthorne is a content designer and strategist and runs <a href=\"https:\/\/crocstar.com\/\" id=\"\">Crocstar<\/a>, a content design agency that specialises in making the complex simple.<\/p>\n<p id=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecatalyst.org.uk\/research\/open-working#Executive-Summaryhttps:\/\/www.thecatalyst.org.uk\/blog\/how-to-work-in-the-open-sharing\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn how to work in the open. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18768,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"resource-category":[1969],"class_list":["post-18765","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource-category-sharing-your-work"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is working in the open for charities? 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