Before you start your social media strategy, read this

Lots of people have been asking me recently how they can get started with their social media strategies. In particular, people want a template or off the shelf action plan. There aren’t any quick fixes here and as with any good strategy it takes hard work, but it is...

How innovative is your innovation?

Cancer Research recently announced plans to launch a mobile phone game, GeneGame. Anyone who has a smartphone will be able to download the game, which takes 5 minutes and involves analysing gene data. It is part of Cancer Research’s ‘Citizen Science’ initiative, which...

Digital: a core competency for all charity staff?

Last week I blogged for The Guardian Voluntary Sector Network about the launch of Lasa’s Charity Digital Survey. Alongside the Digital: what every charity leader should know report (which I also worked on with the Lasa technology team) I wanted to research...

Digital: What Every Charity Leader Should Know

Apologies for not blogging for a while. I’ve been snowed under with the launch of Lasa’s ‘Digital:What Every Charity Leader Should Know’ report. It features crowdsourced insights into how charity leaders can engage with digital to build a more...