Charities need to take a creative digital step

I’ve been thinking a lot about the use of digital in the Charity sector recently, a few years ago I worked for Actionaid (an amazing charity)- the work I did there was off-line and a hell of a lot of fun. Having that experience combined with my total love for digital, I’ve always done my [...]

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Using Social Media During Natural Distasters

We’re five-months into the new year and so far we’ve seen South Africa devastated by severe flooding, America hit by heavy snowstorms, Australia blasted by a category 4 hurricane, New Zealand shaken by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake (followed by severe flooding and fires). Brazil under water following heavy flooding- causing deadly mudslides, Burma and Thailand [...]

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Text-to-donate just got easier

We’ve all heard of donating money to charities via text messages, usually users text a keyword to a shortcode number assigned to the charity. Users are then directed to a mobile payment site where they can donate and receive electronic tax receipts. However, in a move to make things more efficient a new text-to-donate service, [...]

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‘Buy’ a celebrity on Twitter, all in the name of Charity

A new innovative charity auction launched today, allowing you to bid on famous people for a chance to have them follow, retweet you or mention you in a tweet. TwitChange defines itself as “the first-ever celebrity Twitter auction,” and offers up a pretty hefty list of celebs, from Simon Pegg to Pete Wentz. All money [...]

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Fundraising gets more daring

Everyone has heard of JustGiving, it’s the number one site for fundraising online, users quickly and easily state the charity, the activity and the amount they wish to raise and then sit back and watch the donations roll in. ‘MyDunkTank‘ is a more daring fundraising site. Here users list a number of dares they are [...]

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‘Win a website’ by unXPOSEd

unXPOSEd is a digital agency with a conscience, it works mostly with charities and non-profit organisations – giving them a voice amongst the more corporate websites online. With a client list including ‘War Child’, ‘Mind’, ‘Turnfront’, ‘WorldSkills London 2011′ (and even my own website) it strongly believes in the power of positive change via the [...]

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