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7 ways to get buy in for your digital strategy
Does this describe a typical day in your office? Your team are chomping at the bit to get going with developing a digital strategy. Yet it’s proving difficult to get off the ground. Your board aren’t convinced that they need to invest in it this year, your CEO is...
Read this before you start your social media strategy
One of the most popular blogs I’ve ever written was on how to do the groundwork for your social media strategy. That was way back in 2013, but it still gets plenty of traffic, so I’ve decided to revisit it. We’ve been hard at work recently developing social media...
Exclusive: The BHF’s #DECHOX is our campaign of the week
https://youtu.be/K78F768NeYo Before it hits the press next week, I'm delighted to launch the British Heart Foundation's new #DECHOX campaign for 2016. Following the success of the campaign last year, The BHF are asking chocolate fans across the UK to give up...
7 tips for a healthy online community
This is a guest blog by Michael Howard , Macmillan Cancer Support Online Community Manager. A Cancer diagnosis and the subsequent treatment are life-changing events. Macmillan's Online Community (community.macmillan.org.uk) is a place where people affected by...
Campaign of the week: WaterAid’s Parallel Lives
Great charity videos have been on my mind recently, having been asked to select my favourites of 2015 for The Guardian Voluntary Sector Network. As a mum of two young children, I was very moved by the new WaterAid campaign video, which launched this week. It's...
4 brilliant social media campaigns you might not have heard of
#Movember, #nomakeupselfie and #icebucketchallenge might be the first campaigns that spring to mind when we talk about social media. Amazing though these campaigns are, there are many that don’t get the same kind of attention. Perhaps they were run by a small...
Announcing the winners of the 2015 #SocialCEOs awards
I’m absolutely thrilled to announce the winners of the 2015 #SocialCEOs awards. Here’s my blog about the awards from The Guardian Voluntary Sector Network this morning. We’ve also put together a handy infographic of the 2015 winners, including our 3 new awards for...
Feel the ‘digital’ fear and do it anyway
“I’m scared.” It’s one of the things that I hear most often from trustees, CEOs and other staff who are new to digital. Sometimes they don’t even spell it out but express it in other ways. Opting for a broadcast style digital approach or burying their heads in the...
5 secret ingredients of digital strategies
This post originally appeared on the JustGiving blog. A big part of my day job is developing digital strategies and having spent the last few months doing just that for several well known nonprofits, I’m aware how much of an exciting and challenging process it is for...
Who will win the 2015 Charity #SocialCEOs Awards?
I’m so excited to launch this year’s awards, which you may have seen on The Guardian Voluntary Sector Network this morning. In my piece I’ve argued that the recent wave of negative stories about the sector mean that our leaders need to be more visible on social media...
New online resources
Digital Strategy Resources
Digital strategy is one of our core services. We have worked with hundreds of charity and public sector organisations and we’ve developed these resources to help you.
Digital Leadership Resources
These guides will help you develop your leadership skills, whatever stage you are at.
Digital Fundraising Resources
We’ve helped many charities with digital fundraising and have put together these free online resources.
Digital Governance Resources
These resources are designed to help trustees and senior leadership teams make informed decisions about digital, assess risk and to plan strategically.
Digital Skills Resources
These guides will help your charity assess and grow its digital skills, plan for organisational change and create the right culture for digital.
Inclusion Resources
Inclusion is a key part of every digital project we work on. Our resources will get you thinking about how to take an inclusive approach to digital.
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Resources
Our team is already advising charities about why, and how, to use AI, tapping into the potential of the opportunities it brings to create efficiencies and better achieve your vision and mission. We’ve created resources to help you understand the possibilities, and what your next steps should be.
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