About five years ago, the smart progressive campaigners I know (from communities like the ECF) started talking about the growing fear that we weren’t reaching beyond our own filter bubble. Then stuff started happening that confirmed this (you have may noticed them, such fun developments as ‘Brexit’ and ‘Donald Trump becoming President of the USA’). […]
The Wheel have launched an exciting new national charity awards, to celebrate the organisations that are leading in impact and transparency in our sector. The aim of this new national award is to tell the story of the positive impact of the work of all community, voluntary and charitable organisations in Ireland. The Wheel is […]
A line I heard at the Fairsay Campaigning Forum this year really resonated with me: (paraphrasing) “we in the NGO sector get annoyed about bad science all the time (such as climate deniers), yet we constantly ignore the science of behavourial psychology.‘ This is so, so true. We’ve learned from Brexit and Trump that repeating […]
The Wheel’s annual Better Together video competition is on again and you have until November 21st to submit your entry. It’s a really nice opportunity for charities, non profits, community organisations, clubs etc to showcase your work and demonstrate your impact. And in fact, impact is the theme for 2016. Videos can be ‘Epics’ (2 mins […]
Adobe have taken their iPad apps Voice (a fantastically quick and easy tool for making simple motion graphic videos) and Slate (a tool for creating beautiful web stories) and have combined them into a new desktop app called Adobe Spark. This is an excellent development; it means that you can get access to these fast […]
Video gets more and more important on social media – it’s the champion for engagement and sharing. The explosion of video on different platforms means that the way people watch and consume video changes all the time; one important change is people watching video without sound as clips auto play in their social media timelines. […]