Guides

Practical guides on shaping an idea, pitching it clearly, and getting it in front of an audience that will actually engage with it. Free to read.

• How to share an idea online
• How to pitch an idea
• How to write a title people click
• How to handle criticism of your work
• How to give feedback that helps
• What community broadcasting is
• How programming decisions get made
• How to structure a talk
• How to open a talk
• How to handle questions from an audience
• How to speak when you are nervous
• How community voting works
• Turn a volunteering experience into a program
• How to tell a community story well
• What makes a good community documentary
• Interviewing people in your own community
• AI feedback on creative work
• Telling difficult personal stories
• Broadcast formats explained
• Sharing your experience without overpromising
• Telling a story about yourself inside an idea
• Using testimonials responsibly
• Experience versus evidence
• How to interview someone about something painful
• Consent when telling someone else’s story
• How to avoid inspiration porn
• What makes an idea original?
• How do you narrow a topic that is too broad?
• How do you test an idea before committing to it?
• How to run a good discussion
• Who needs crediting, and how, when an idea is shared?
• Why vote counts can mislead
• Where moderation ends and censorship begins
• What makes a community guideline actually get enforced
• Why comment sections fail
• How to disagree productively
• How to start a community from zero
• How to welcome newcomers
• How to recognise contributions
• AI as editor, not generator
• How scoring rubrics work
• When to disclose that AI helped
• AI feedback versus human feedback
• How to ask AI for useful feedback
• Bias in AI evaluation
• How to avoid writing AI slop
• Language for mental health stories
• Making kindness content that is not saccharine
• Covering caregiving honestly
• Recording an interview with a phone
• Audio basics for a first production
• Editing a first segment
• Music licensing on no budget
• What is a pilot supposed to prove?
• Filming someone: consent and release forms
• Captions and transcripts on no budget
• How a week of programming is assembled
• How a finished programme finds an audience