Christmas social
It’s official. We’ve been horrible at keeping this site up to date, so apologies to everyone who has got in touch to see if the group is still actually meeting… we’ve all been busy…!
To avoid missing any updates, the best thing to do is to sign up for the email list from our contact page, and get hooked up to us via Twitter & Facebook.
So a quick update. Last month we met at WDM, thanks to Pontus for presenting their latest campaign, and hopefully there were lots of ideas that they’ll be able to implement as a result. We spent most of the meeting thinking about best practice for pushing their new video based campaign, and I certainly learnt a lot, so hope everyone else did!
For our December meeting, we’re sticking to our first Wednesday of the month schedule, and will be meeting on the 7th December for a social at the TAS/EV restaurant near Waterloo from 7pm (ask for Brani’s table or the Digital Charities group).
If you’re keen to come to the social to meet the Digital Charities group, please drop us a line via our contact page so there’s a chance of getting a seat for you sorted out!
Again – apologies for not keeping this site up to date with more regular updates. We’ll try to be better communicators in the New Year!
June meeting
Yep, we skipped last month’s meeting due to excessive busy-ness from Ben and I (Tom).
June’s meeting will go ahead as usual however at UNICEF’s offices, on Wednesday 1st June:
We are going to be thinking about a topic suggested by Neil (WWF) a while back:
Back to basics – ways to help your organisation think smarter about the web
This could include a range of areas such as:
- Encouraging people to take ownership of their pages
- Training in digital for non web people
- Use of social media
- Using online tools to manage projects
- Developing digital capacity outside of your team
ECF workday
A note from Duane about a brilliant new monthly meetup – get involved!
Hi DCers,
Today I’m launching ECF Workdays: a monthly gathering to connect and re-connect Digital Charity and eCampaigning Forum community members by doing our normal work in the same room. It is this Friday in London.
The idea is simple: once a month, we do our normal work in a room with our peers. The small talk, breaks, lunches and any after-work socialising serve to provide stimulation and inspiration as well as a practical hands-on support group for whatever you are doing that month.
When: the third Friday of each month.
Where: I am hosting the first this Friday at the Islington Hub (by Angel Tube) from 10:00-17:00. Tell me if you wish to join.
Bring: Laptop to work from, possibly network cable / wifi dongle / mobile dongle (depending on what you need for connectivity to work)
Join: Email me if you wish to join the ECF Workday this Friday in London. There is only space for 15-20 people. WiFi is free. There is no cost.
As this is the first of many, we’ll improve model as we go, but this is the start.
For those of you in or around London, hope to see you Friday (let me know)
Cheers,
Duane
March meeting
Our next meeting is happening on Wednesday 2nd March at Amnesty UK.
We’ll be starting officially at 4pm, but a few of us will be around from 3pm, so feel free to come earlier.
We’re going to spend the meeting doing something a bit different – putting our wisdom into practice, by helping a small charity with their online presence.
The charity in question is the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation, an organisation that provides confidential advice and other support to Middle Eastern women and girls who are facing domestic violence, forced marriage, female genital mutilation and ‘honour’ based violence.
We’ve not got long, but we think a lot can be done by 20+ people in a room for a few hours!
Some of the areas we might help with:
- Choosing and installing a new Joomla theme (or possibly migrating to a new platform)
- Finding great plugins that will give extra functionality
- Developing a social media presence and writing some advice on how they should manage it
- Highlighting their best content
- Recommending and/or implementing copy changes
There will be plenty to do for the technical and non-technical alike, and if you just want to listen and learn that is fine too!
As this will probably take longer than a couple of hours, we’ve got the room booked until 9pm (we’ll come to some arrangement re food). But of course, if you are only available for a couple of hours, we’d love to have you!