@lgfoundation glad we could be part of it - looking forward to seeing who wins the #enough video comp! #IDAHO (about 8 hours ago)
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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 tips to help your thinking...
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 are now aware of this and are starting to build an online presence, but there is one aspect that many overlook, analytics.
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.
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.
Data journalism is growing in popularity and the internet provides a wealth of resources for the budding data journalist.
Charity work can be dramatic and life-changing, but when it's annual report time, achievements can get lost in numbers, tables and jargon.
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 themselves up to negative or just plain crazy comments.
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.
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 your field to your blog, website, brand and, hopefully, your supporter base.
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 users and your cause.
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 your day job is making you sweat, then here's three fast, easy and free ideas that'll save you time and money.
What should you take into account when developing an email social marketing campaign and how can you tackle the barriers to its success?
"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.
Do people struggle to find their way around your website? Better Information Architecture can help.
This free event for National Trustees' Week 2010 aims to encourage organisations to encourage young people to join their boards.
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.
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.
Scotland's leading public intellectual Gerry Hassan invites us to go beyond the big society.
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 pens.
For the second year, we've helped the BBC report the impact of their community outreach work by producing an accessible Corporate Responsibility Report.
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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