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Your Charity Should Only Invest In LinkedIn If These Six Criteria Apply
If you’re strapped for time and resources and already engaging on multiple social platforms, do you really need to use LinkedIn? Mary proposes six criteria to judge whether your charity should get...
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Are You Getting Your Images Right?
In this post Amy looks at how to choose the best images for your blog and shares her top tips for editing so they fit your brand and tone.
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What do Blogging and Mince Pies Have in Common?
We ran a training session on blogging for charities. It was fun. Many mince pies were eaten. Find out more (and have a great Christmas!)
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My Top 5 Social Entrepreneurship Reads of 2014
In our first post of the new year, Andy reviews his top business books from 2014 and shares how they have impacted his thinking.
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Web Apps Every Charity Should Use: Buffer App
There are some awesome web apps out there. In the first of our mini-series we look at Buffer App, why it's a good fit for charities, and our top tips for making the most of it (including the charity...
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Books That Are Rocking Our World
Everyone knows reading is good for you yet it's difficult to get past our immersion in bite-sized content to spend time reading a meaty book. In this post we look at some books our team are currently...
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3 New YouTube Ideas for Your Charity
YouTube is 10 years old. In this post we look at three new ways of campaigning on YouTube and share suggestions for how your charity can adopt them.
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How to Avoid Gender Discrimination: Start With Incentive Structures
Gender discrimination in technology is rife. Andy shares how we have changed our pay incentive structures in light of this, and his suggestions for other small technology businesses to implement.
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3 Fonts Created For Good
We love bringing attention to digital technology being used for social change. But what about typography? In this post, Amy looks at how typography and fonts are being used innovatively for a good cause.
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10 Lessons From 100 Blog Posts
We’ve been blogging regularly since July 2013 and have written over 100 blog posts. Mary shares ten things about blogging that we wish we’d known sooner.
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8 Things to Include in your Charity Brand Guidelines
Ensure your staff make good use of your brand guidelines with our top tips of what to include and examples from our own brand guidelines.
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4 Steps to Optimising your Images for the Web
A quick 4-step checklist to making sure your images are the right size, format and dimensions for your website
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SEO for Charities: A Comprehensive Guide
This post is about search engine optimisation (SEO) and is aimed at charity marketers. It will give you a run-down of all the basics you need to know about SEO and in particular will address the...
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Why We Changed The Way We Build Charity Websites
For years we operated like every other website agency serving the charity sector. We would listen to our clients, understand their needs and use open source technology like Drupal or Wordpress to craft...
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Why Low Customisation and High Quality Design Are Friends Not Enemies
Last week Andy wrote about why we've changed the way we build websites and introduced you to our new product, Bamboo. We've standardised lots of the functionality we deliver, lowered the cost and sped...
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How to Choose the Best Home Page Layout for your Charity
Deciding which type of home page best suits your charity is about more than just finding and emulating the one you like the look of best. Home pages are the beginning of a journey for many website...
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4 Reasons your Charity Should use Medium
Medium is a relatively new (2012) web publishing platform, that many charities are engaging with. But if you’re a charity with stretched resources, why should you start using yet another publishing...
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Intranets for charities: what you need and how to get it for FREE
An intranet is a private network, accessible only to an organisation's staff. Ten years ago charities had little option but to build their own intranet. Now customised intranets are almost redundant...
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11 integrations to keep your charity website modern and flexible
Gone are the days when your organisation’s online presence is confined to just your website. In the same way that you use social media and other channels to manage the first levels of engagement, you...
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11 Integrations to Keep Your Charity Website Modern and Flexible
Gone are the days when your organisation’s online presence is confined to just your website. In the same way that you use social media and other channels to manage the first levels of engagement, you...
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