21 May 2025 | Charity comms and PR
We chat to Rob Dyson*, a PR and comms consultant with over two decades of experience, including everything from strategic media relations to risk and reputational management, copywriting to social media, and strategies to internal comms. Phew, and that’s just...16 Dec 2024 | Digital Leadership, Digital Skills, Digital Strategy
Is it game over for X? In the last few weeks we’ve seen a mass exodus from X to Bluesky. At the time of writing, the latter has grown to 25 million users, whilst X (formerly Twitter) has lost 2.7 million users in two months. For me, this feels like something...21 Aug 2024 | Digital Leadership, Diversity and inclusion
Summer 2024 will always be remembered for the UK riots and the racist and Islamophobic violence that erupted across the UK. It’s at times like this that I turn to books for comfort. This round up of three of my favourite new books focuses on racism, identity and...13 Aug 2024 | Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Diversity and inclusion
It’s been over a week since the UK riots began. Not long after I wrote a piece for Third Sector about why the riots need to be a turning point in how charities fight racism. It has been heartening to see how it has struck a chord with so many people. And it was...22 Sep 2023 | Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Digital Fundraising, Digital Governance, Digital Leadership, Digital Skills, Digital Strategy
In January the Charity Commission launched their draft social media guidance for charities. There were concerns about the guidance from many organisations and NCVO convened a sector response to the consultation. At the time we blogged about our views on the draft...