Expert Evelyn Wolf from the Digital Charity Lab panel recently spoke at our social media workshop about engaging your audience and preparing content that works on social. Evelyn has put together a post about her advice on her Wolf Trekking blog, and gives practical tips on how you can use online and offline techniques to … Read more
We have two nifty tools that will save you time on making images for social media this month, particularly if you don’t have in-house design expertise or your own copy of Photoshop. 1. Social Image Resizer Tool The Social Image Resizer Tool allows you to upload an image and then crop and resize it – … Read more
Social media culture becomes more visual all the time, and posts with images, if done right, can be really shareable. Something as simple as posting a quote as a graphic instead of a text post is likely to get a lot more engagement on Facebook, for example. Just Giving have put together a short n’ … Read more
Greenpeace’s Mobilisation Lab is a constant inspiration to us at Digital Charity Lab. They do incredible work on online activism while sharing their knowledge for the benefit of non-profits and activists all over the world. They’ve rounded up their 14 most popular stories from 2014 and there’s some excellent reading there. They’re sharing practical tips … Read more
The nice people at Sprout Social have set up this super handy Google Doc that has the image dimensions for all the major social media platforms. The document is set up with tabs for each major platform so it’s really easy to use, and they are keeping it up to date every time information is … Read more
Digital storytelling is one of the things I’m most excited about in the charity digital space at the moment. The available tools just get better and better, and developments in HTML5 mean that rich digital stories can now be accessible and quick to download – no need for clunky plugins or enormous files. I’ll feature … Read more