Tag: charity digital

• Learning that compromise doesn’t equal failure

  I was on holiday in Africa this week, leaving product behind and heading for the mountains and the sun. Whenever I’m away I tend to keep a sneaky eye on anything involving developers, because issues that arise there are usually the most complicated to fix, and I’m the one who knows what shade of yellow…

  digitalbecca

  March 10, 2018

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  charity digital, digital, product, product management

• Removing redundant web content

  This blog is about removing redundant web content from a large site. Before I start, I should say that a much more sensible person would have got an agency to do this. At several points during the process (which I started in October) I’ve thought I was being far too stubbornly INTJ about the whole…

  digitalbecca

  May 15, 2016

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  charity digital, digital, seo, site audit

• A record breaking post – thoughts on its success

  A couple of months ago I had a record breaking Facebook post. It was ridiculously successful, certainly the biggest post for Time to Change, but I was at a conference a little while ago and Oxfam were talking about their biggest ever post reaching 5 million people. Ours was 8.2 million, suggesting we might have beaten them too… I’m…

  digitalbecca

  August 8, 2015

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  charity, charity digital, depression, depression awareness week, Facebook, mental health, social media

• Why we shouldn’t use trigger warnings

  I had to do something I really disagree with today and it’s something I truly believe puts people in danger. I posted an article containing triggering images about anxiety, with a warning for people not to look if they were likely to be triggered by them. Shortly after I posted it, we had a comment…

  digitalbecca

  April 29, 2015

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  charity, charity digital, community management, Facebook, mental health, social media, trigger warnings

• Charity spending is right and necessary

  Every now and then, wherever I work, I have to brace myself for “could you advertise these jobs?” or “could you share this blog from the CEO?” These are both pretty routine things and shouldn’t involve setting aside half a day to argue with people on social media, but invariably they do. Charity spending, lobbying,…

  digitalbecca

  March 7, 2015

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  charity, charity digital

• Samaritans Radar: it’s about more than privacy

  Today the Samaritans launched a Twitter app designed, essentially, to help stop people in mental health crisis from slipping through the digital net. As the charity relies almost entirely on volunteers, and as suicide remains one of the UK’s biggest killers, I can certainly see why they might commission a project which monitors people’s tweets…

  digitalbecca

  October 29, 2014

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  charity, charity digital, privacy, samaritans, samaritans radar, social media

• How Mind managed to publish breaking news, from 2011

  Today a totally ridiculous coincidence happened, which I want to document somehow since it was fun to fix and will probably never happen again. What happened: When Mind launched their new website back in November 2012, we hired a keen team of digital volunteers to set about the tedious task of migrating content from one…

  digitalbecca

  September 12, 2014

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  charity digital, content migration, digital, Mind, Mind Media Awards, web

• What’s wrong with irresponsible reporting around suicide

  Yesterday the world received the sad news that Robin Williams had taken his own life after struggling with addiction and depression for many years. Despite its prevalence, depression is still a much misunderstood illness and mental health organisations, along with their supporters, fight hard to ensure it has parity of esteem with physical health conditions.…

  digitalbecca

  August 13, 2014

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  charity digital, digital, robin williams, social media, suicide

• Three problems with the no makeup selfies for cancer

  A month on and there’s no denying the success, in fundraising terms, of the no makeup selfies for cancer. They raised millions for Cancer Research UK, the first to spot their potential and channel participants to a text giving account. The campaign ticked all the boxes for creating sharable content – it was image based,…

  digitalbecca

  April 19, 2014

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  cancer research uk, charity, charity digital, digital, no makeup selfie, social media, viral