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2012 Archive

Giving is a game – who’s in?

Tips for targeted, collaborative campaigning in tough times

Will digital illiteracy damage the sector?

How to make your website a lean, mean, money-making machine

Why is The Guardian supporting a tax on charities?

Give your brand away

Email or social media? It’s simple: communicate with people where they are

Four simple ways to join up your comms

Is your charity ready for Google+? (Or is Google+ ready for your charity?)

Users as curators: an audioboo case study

The power of triggers

How to launch a new charity website

Formula for success

Read this if you don’t have enough resource in your charity’s comms team – part 3

How can you get to the top of Google for anything?

How to pitch to bloggers

Let’s start at the very beginning…

How to build your blogger network

How to communicate a 2011 disaster

Read this if you don’t have enough resources in your charity’s communications team

Are charity tweeters the new chuggers?

How @childsi helped me save a life using social media

Using agencies to make an impact

Charities pay the price for paywalls

Developing a social media strategy

In the excitement about digital, don’t forget the people

Investment in social media set to rise – and so it should

Can anybody find you?

Hitting the headlines in 2009

The downside to social networking

Comms in a Crisis

Ben Goldacre’s #chuggerstop Campaign

Direct mail, your time is nearly up?

Folksonomies: We Like to Share

The data you should be collecting

On blogging

Up in the Clouds: for today’s charities Free is the new paid-for

Allowing supporters to choose

Blog on

Why do comms people let fundraisers leave them standing when it comes to new media?

Free Marketing and PR Support

eCampaigning Forum

Social Networking More Popular Than Email

Joining the dots…Social media: why bother?

PR 2.0 – is your communication online, on-message?

To Microsite or not to Microsite? – That is the question!

Updating the News

Your top ten websites – does it include the BBC website?

Why is everyone talking about e-campaigning?

How to get your message read before the delete button is pressed

YouTube launches non-profit programme in the UK

Cut your cloth to fit your budget

Writing for email

Making use of online PR

What an amazing opportunity

Death of the newspaper?

Can’t get on TV? Set up your own channel

Teens bite back

Right of Reply

Insulting titles?

Who can give informed consent to be filmed for TV?

Citizen Journalism offers huge opportunities for charities

BBC Outreach – a new site and newsletter

Digital Dividend Review – What on earth is in it for the Voluntary Sector?

The power of the sound-bite

A chance to make the news

Some tips on promoting your website

The end of a shocking era?

A chance for case studies to bite back!

A kickstart for UK Campaigning Films?

Edinburgh TV Festival

TV programmes on disability provoke heated debate

Inside the mind of BBC News Editors

Did you know that DFID funds TV development?

New ways of using the web

Really getting inside the mind of the media

A new way of uploading sound