We are a social enterprise that helps organisations get the most out of digital media and do a little good using the web.
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Do you know how much the average donation is? How many people research a charity online before giving? Watch our video to find out.
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We're working with The Fundraising Standards Board to increase their membership, and promote public confidence in charitable giving
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We help The BBC communicate & promote their community outreach work on the web without printing reports.
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See how computer games helped pedestrians' charity Living Streets increase engagement, improve health & save the environment.
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Tips & ideas from our blog...
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5 steps to make sure you are compliant with the EU Cookie Directive
With new EU legislation being enforced on the 26th of May, companies are now being forced to obtain the permission of users before using cookies. To make sure your website is complying with the law...
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How to improve your charity's online presence
The new financial year offers many charities and organisations the perfect time to think about how they can get their online presence right, especially when resources are tight. Here are a few...
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How to Track Your Impact on the Web
Using the Internet to expand your charity is a necessity in the modern world. Social media, email and search engines are all powerful tools for getting your organisation known. A lot of charities...
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How charities are campaigning using augmented reality
Websites, blogs, email newsletters and social media have long been standard tools in the campaigner’s toolkit, but there’s a new kid on the block - augmented reality.
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How your charity can use Pinterest
Pinterest is a photo-sharing website that is rocketing in popularity. It's still in its infancy but it is already proving to be a great social media tool. Here are a few tips on how your charity...
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Is your charity ready for Facebook timeline?
All Facebook pages will become timelines at the end of March. Here are some simple tips how you can use timeline to highlight how your charity is changing people’s lives.
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Charity challenges and video fundraising
So, with the double whammy of lots of charity challenges competing with each other in an economic downturn, how can charities make sure their supporters have all the tools they need to be brilliant...
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10 Things to Learn from Kony 2012
Kony 2012 has become an internet phenomenon, highlighting why charities and non profits need to be aware of the power of compelling campaign videos.
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Six ways to increase online donations
Donations are what drives many a charity. Here are a few sound techniques to get more people to donate and help further your cause.
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Five great Christmas campaigns
December is a busy time of year for charities, with donations 5% higher than other months. How are you convincing people to choose to donate to your charity?
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Five trends to look for in 2012
The new year is likely to bring new trends which will affect the voluntary sector. Here are five things charities should be doing in 2012.
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Come to the Manchester Work Away Day
Getting out the office and networking with like minded people is a great way to come up with some fresh ideas for the year ahead.
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Resources for data journalists
Data journalism is growing in popularity and the internet provides a wealth of resources for the budding data journalist.
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Why social housing should be 'Digital by Default'
Almost half of UK adults who have never been online live in social housing, yet housing providers overestimate the costs and are unaware of the benefits of being 'digital by default'.
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How charities are using games to engage online
Interaction is a necessity for charities. Getting an audience to listen to everything we want them to hear can be difficult; getting them to respond is even harder. There is one medium that not...
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Measuring your charity website's impact with Google Analytics
Increasingly websites are not only being used for marketing services or campaigns, but actually delivering them too. That means if we don't pay attention to our web analytics, we're missing a huge...
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How social media mobilised social good during the England riots and looting
Social media has been condemned for promoting rioting & looting, but has also helped bring the perpetrators to justice.
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Using data to improve your campaigning
Data is more important than ever. The Internet has put a wealth of knowledge at our fingertips, but finding reliable data can be tricky.
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Seven tools to make boring data beautiful
Data needn't just be boring rows of numbers. It can be artistic, eye catching and inventive to be memorable.
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Taking the effort out of blogging
Blogging is hard work. You’ve got to create a strategy, write the posts continuously, and spend hours promoting the posts across different channels to try and pull your audience in. It might...
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Five brilliant ways to report your impact
Charity work can be dramatic and life-changing, but when it's annual report time, achievements can get lost in numbers, tables and jargon.
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What Google+ means for your charity
What does Google's new social network Google+ mean for charities and for social change?
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The three biggest risks for charity bloggers
There are three worries that stop some would-be bloggers. That what they write won’t be read, that if it does get read it won’t benefit their organisation in any way, and that they open...
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What are blogs, and do they get results?
Twitter and Facebook may have overtaken blogs in the headlines, but blogs still remain one of the best ways to generate new audiences for your organisation.
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21 winning charity blog post ideas
The key to a successful charity blog is that the benefits work both ways. You publish interesting, inspiring and useful content about your cause which in turn attracts people with an interest in...
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How to use analytics to generate new insights about your charity
It's time to stop thinking of your webstats as, well, webstats. If you've put your organisation on the web, then webstats are just stats... stats about you, your supporters, your service...
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Save time and money using the web
There seems to be more things to do, and less time and budgets to do it with. So if having to update your organisation's twitter feed, as well as run the monthly newsletter, on top of the rest of...
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How to run an email social marketing campaign
What should you take into account when developing an email social marketing campaign and how can you tackle the barriers to its success?
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Using email to change minds and influence behaviour
Public sector organisations often employ the techniques of social marketing in their messages, but what additional barriers do they face?
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Help your volunteers help your digital campaigning
Charities get volunteers to fundraise or attend events, but often forget that they can get involved in digital campaigning.
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Creative ways charities are connecting with people using the web
The internet isn't all enewsletters and webpages. Charities are finding new, creative and often free ways to connect with service users and supporters.
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Ten email newsletter tools compared
Are you missing out on the benefits of enewsletters because you’re still trying fighting Outlook Express to try and send broadcasts to your supporters? Too many charities are, and it's affecting...
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Make your charity campaign stand out with an interactive YouTube video
Charities are realising the power of the campaign video, but with new videos uploaded to YouTube every day, how will yours stand out?
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Five ways to build a community using Facebook Pages
Is your organisation making the best use of Facebook's new Page features to grow your supporter base and nurture a community?
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Work with us
We're looking for talented web developers who want to get involved in social good.
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Five of the best charity Facebook pages
Welcome your new supporters and make the right first impression by creating a custom welcome screen for your Facebook Page.
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What your charity can learn from video games
Successful websites are applying game theory to excite & engage users. What can you learn from video games to improve your charity campaigns?
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5 ways to get results from your charity's digital comms
"More for less" is already the catchphrase for 2011, and we're all feeling the need to become more competitive and sustainable as a result.
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Ten steps to better email newsletters
Compete for attention in ever-busier email inboxes and improve the chances of getting your charity's email newsletter opened, read & acted on.
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Making an accessible campaign video
You may be aware of the importance of making your website accessible, so why not apply the same principles to videos you're producing?
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Essential tools for creating mobile content
Journalism is changing. Nowadays, it is easier than ever for your volunteers and staff to produce news, right from their mobile phone.
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Your BBC: opportunities and challenges for the Third Sector
Aziz Rashid, Head of Regional and Local Programmes, BBC North West answers questions from an invited audience.
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Improving website usability with Information Architecture
Do people struggle to find their way around your website? Better Information Architecture can help.
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Mind the gap
In our 'Lunchworks' event, voice-over artist Emma Clarke came along to talk about her work and the art of diversification. Videos and transcriptions of the event are now available to view here.
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Ten UK charity fundraising websites compared
How do the main UK charity fundraising websites compare?
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Diversifying the Board: Engaging and involving young people in charity governance
This free event for National Trustees' Week 2010 aims to encourage organisations to encourage young people to join their boards.
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How to spot a bad charity website
Have you looked at your own charity's website recently? Have you ever suspected it's a bit rubbish? Here are a few things to look out for.
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Getting the best out of your charity's email communications
In spite of the meteoric rise of social media, email remains one of the most powerful and cost effective items in your charity comms toolbox.
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Whose future is it anyway? Calling time on the big society.
Scotland's leading public intellectual Gerry Hassan invites us to go beyond the big society.
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Charity websites are more than marketing
Charity websites take online donations and deliver advice & guidance to hard-to-reach groups, but according to the Department for Education they're as much of a waste of money as mousemats or...
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5 ways charities should be using Foursquare
The next Twitter or a geeky fad? We look at five ways you can raise awareness of your nonprofit's cause with Foursquare.
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BBC Corporate Responsibility Report 2010
For the second year, we've helped the BBC report the impact of their community outreach work by producing an accessible Corporate Responsibility Report.
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Staying positive in a nonprofit workplace
Working in the non-profit sector can be a very demanding and challenging job and people often feel unappreciated.
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Seven great charity campaign videos
Most organisations know how a quick video upload to a site like YouTube can reap benefits: huge web traffic in a short time for next to nothing. But let’s face it, some charity videos do not...
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Is your message getting through?
We gave a brief talk about getting the best out of email newsletters at Charity Comms' quarterly seminar in London on 16th September.
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Social media training
Join us for a session providing tips & tools for nonprofits already using Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube to spread the word.
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A Learning Revolution
See how we inspired learning in Manchester as part of the Government's Learning Revolution Festival.
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Spotlight: BBC CSR Report
We take a look at the challenges of producing the BBCs 08/09 Corporate Social Responsibility Report.
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Work for us
If you're a Python or PHP developer, then this is a rare opportunity to help social causes by doing what you love ...and get paid for it too.
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Spotlight: One Central Place
When we think of changing the world, we think of a man stood with his shopping in front of a tank, historic speeches and protests...
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Best practices: Web site design for nonprofits
We've been quoted in a new ebook by communications consultant and nonprofit expert Gayle Thornsen.
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Are you really online?
Find out what a pizza delivery service can tell your organisation about the future of your website.
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Digital Communications for Charities conference
We'll be giving a web workshop for charities on a tight budget at this year's Digital Communications for Charities conference in London.
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Calling budding web designers
If you're at the start of your career in digital, what should you know to make you more than just another web designer in an industry that just keeps growing and growing?
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Free software and ethics
In 1983 one guy had an idea: to be ethical in computing you must give people the rights to read and redistribute the source code of the programs they use.
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University careers speed-dating
We were asked to answer the question "what's it like out there" for 70 students at a speed-dating style careers event at The University of Manchester.
Portfolio spotlight...
Using apps to save lives with the Meningitis Trust.
We worked with the Meningitis Trust to create the world's first meningitis symptoms app for Android - just in time for the deadly disease's peak season.