Josh Russell

Get clear feedback, wherever you’re writing Everyone has to be a writer now; text is the primary medium of communication and if we’re bad at it, we really lose out. Getting our message exactly right means we can explain the value of our products to our customers, persuade our colleagues of our ideas and publish our thoughts on the web. Writing is also something lots of us find really hard; putting ideas into written words and explaining those in a coherent way is a tricky job. So we turn to others for help: getting feedback is crucial for us to perfect what we’re trying to communicate. But the tools we use to get feedback right now aren’t optimised for that process. None of them make the act of asking for feedback simple: finding the right person who is willing, available and capable of helping is hard. And that’s the problem we’re trying to solve: Poetica wants to help you communicate better by making it really easy to ask for feedback, from the right people.

Forward Democracy exists to defend and develop democracy in the UK. Initiatives include 'Swap My Vote' and 'TacticalVolunteer.uk'. Ambitious plans are afoot for 2021 and beyond - watch this space.

Formed on 16th March 2020 as a Slack group, code4covid began as an initiative to bring UK tech projects together and coordinate volunteers to use their skills for these grassroot businesses. Now at over 1,800 volunteers, the purpose is simple: utilise technology to fight the challenges brought by COVID-19. Our community of technologists has to-date helped over 180 projects from the non-profit and Charities sector: by collaborating with Covid Tech Support we ensure the talent is channelled and assigned to these grassroot operations and efforts are not duplicated. If you are a developer, project manager, product manager, marketeer, designer, analyst, data scientist, ops manager who want to dedicate a few hours for good - join us and help us make a difference!