21 Things (Out of Hundreds) That I Learned at the 2015 Ecampaigning Forum

The Fairsay Ecampaigning Forum in Oxford is an annual conference that gathers digital activists from all over the world. It’s always a highlight of my working year – because of the great speakers, and the incredibly passionate and knowledgeable community of attendees. Plus using the Open Space method for organising workshops means that the agenda … Read more

Online Resource of the Month: Top 13 tips on how to optimise your online action

Glyn Thomas, from the Digital Charity Lab expert panel, also works with international digital agency more onion – and Glyn and the other geniuses over there have put together this excellent guide with 13 Top Tips on how to optimise your online action. The guide is free (you just need to provide your email address), … Read more

Digital Storytelling: Making Services for Autistic People an Election Issue

The National Autistic Society in the UK recently released this beautiful series of digital stories about the reality of living with autism.  What I love about this series is that they have done a really wonderful job of starting with the close-up, detailed and authentic personal stories and then seamlessly linked them to a wider … Read more

Digital Storytelling Tool & Story of the Month

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