Instagram has recently improved as a tool for activists. I find Instagram to be a delightful platform for personal use, but a hugely frustrating one for professional use: its analytics are beyond terrible, and it has poor peer-to-peer sharing functions compared to other social media. I have access to data from a lot of organisations, … Read more
The kind people at Fundraising Space, the new hub for digital fundraisers, asked me to write a guest post about Facebook. I focused on something that has been bothering me for ages: the struggle non-profits have trying to get a decent return out of organic Facebook. It ended up being quite a long and (I hope) comprehensive … Read more
We’ve been doing a lot of work on developing resources for charities for using Facebook Ads – a highly effective but often baffling platform! One of these resources is a guest article on the Nonprofit Tech for Good website. The article covers 9 things charities need to understand and test to make the most of … Read more
We have two new learning resources that I’m really excited about. They’re all about strategies that work for Facebook Ads. Currently, non-profits in our community ask for help with Facebook Ads more than any other digital channel. I think there’s an understanding out there that Facebook Ads have massive potential, but a serious gap when it comes to … Read more
The Global NGO Technology Report from Nonprofit Tech for Good is the only crowdsourced, multilingual survey and report for the NGO sector. Data from thousands of NGOs around the world was gathered between March and May 2019 and has now been collated and analysed in the global report. This hugely interesting and informative document contains … Read more
Instagram announced in July that they are trialing a new approach where they hide the number of ‘likes’ on posts, ostensibly to encourage users to stop comparing themselves to each other, and reduce bullying and feelings of inadequacy. However, it was quickly figured out that this change could also have a huge impact on Instagram … Read more