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Keep On, Keep Up: healthy ageing with digital
How do you a tackle an often unspoken problem, with technology that's not viewed as widely used by your target audience? With a collaborative team of experts from a variety of fields and a guy called Wilf.
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Gender diversity and discrimination: how not to be part of the problem
Being a straight, white, middle-class guy is easy.
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Let’s talk about mental health | Part 1
I sat down with some of our team to talk openly about mental health.
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Screw tech ethics
Much is said about the harm digital technology does to humanity, calling for a more ‘ethical’ approach. This approach, argues our co-founder Matt Haworth, carries a risk of unintended consequence in itself, restricting the ability of innovation to make the world a better place.
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Voice technology. Can charities harness the power of words?
Voice technology is something we're all still getting to grips with. Sure, it makes flicking to the next track simple but is it eavesdropping on our lives? Does it make us lazy? In the charity sector there is a similar level of uncertainty. How can it help charities? How are organisations already using it? We decided to explore the concept of Voice in the third sector.
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The UK government’s Civil Society Strategy: Our thoughts
The UK Government recently launched its new Civil Society Strategy: Building a future that works for everyone, echoing Theresa May’s first speech as Prime Minister where she vowed to fight against “burning injustice” and to be “driven, not by the interests of the privileged few but by yours.”
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The gender pay gap, small business and the tech sector
The gender pay gap is in the news again this week.
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Future tech trends for charities to know about
What the heck is Blockchain? How is AI relevant to our charity? What are machines spending so much time learning? We wanted to share with you what these buzzwords *actually* mean, how the third sector is using them and what social impact is being created as a result.
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Drupal developer insight: What is a ‘Content Types Document’?
What is a ‘Content Types Document’ or CTD for short? First thing to know is that it’s a huge technical-looking spreadsheet. Now you’re hooked let’s break it down a bit.
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5 ways to make your charity website mobile friendly
Charities are missing out on the mobile revolution. Our research shows that smartphone users are the biggest source of traffic to charity websites (68%) – yet the vast majority (79%) navigate away from the sites after viewing only one page.*
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Design sprints for social change
The concept of a product design sprint isn't anything new. It’s a process created by Google Ventures (the venture capital investment arm of Google) and design agencies have been been using it to help companies such as Uber to quickly ideate, test and validate a product idea during a 5 day sprint.
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How to integrate google calendar with a Laravel site
We are getting to the end of work on integrating Google Calendar via the Google API into a client site (Laravel). Our developer, Tom Metcalfe thought he would share our solution to hopefully help the next person who needs to do this...
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