Free SEO/SEM course for Charity and Not for Profit Sites

Graphic Designers have a long history of providing ‘pro bono’ work to organisations and causes they believe in, but it is not often that other companies give away their product for free, no strings attached (in hard economic times), to those who could benefit most but aren’t always in a position to pay full market [...]

And the winners are…

Congratulations to the following conference participants who attended our “Embracing Technology for Online Success” at a Not-for-Profit Training Day in May…

Part 6: Blogging for Not-for-Profits

What is a blog? How did they come about? Who are the bloggers and who reads their blogs? What are the pros and cons of blogging? And lots more…

Part 5: Using Twitter to Promote your Cause – 10 Best Practices

How many people have heard of Twitter? I’m guessing a fair few seeing as Twitter receives 55,000,000 visitors a month, with 6 million of those being unique visitors (i.e. non-repeat visits)
How many people have setup a Twitter account? Probably a fair few again. There are a massive amount of people who have opened Twitter accounts [...]

Part 4: Using Facebook to Promote Your Cause

What is Facebook? How did it come about? Who uses it? The Pros and Cons, and how to use it to promote your cause or event…

Part 3: The 5 Rules of Social Media Optimisation

One of the social media’s well known commentators, Rohit Bhargava came up in 2006 with 5 rules for conducting SMO…

Part 2: The Two Tenants of Online Social Marketing

If you are a website administrator you may only just be coming to grips with the ins and outs of search engine optimisation (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) and now you are faced with a whole new set of acronyms and computer geek jargon. Blogging, wikis, tweets, mashup, pings, digg it…

Part 1: Social Media – What’s it all about?

As part of our preparation for a workshop called “Embracing Technology for Online Success” at a Not-for-Profit Training Day, I’ve been taking a much closer look at the origins of social media and some of its current favourites…