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...
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...
13 Mar 2023 | Digital Fundraising, Digital Governance, Digital Leadership, Digital Skills, Digital Strategy
The BBC is planning to review its social media guidelines after Gary Lineker was reinstated as Match of the Day presenter following his tweets about asylum policy. Social media is on a lot of charities’ minds following the draft social media guidance issued by...
23 Sep 2013 | Uncategorized
Low budget airline Ryanair joined Twitter last week and has already caused quite a storm on social media. This isn’t surprising. Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s CEO, is well known for his provocative soundbites. On passengers who forget to print their boarding pass: “We...
2 Sep 2013 | Uncategorized
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...