How a blog helps your charity
It’s time to turn the spotlight on one of my charity clients: Orb Community Arts in Knaresborough. I spend a few hours on-site per week, copywriting interviews, writing about upcoming events and making exciting announcements to the Orb community from their creative musicians and artists then putting it all together on the Orb Community Arts blog. So it’s time to share some of the benefits that blog copwriting support can offer to a charity after only a couple of months. Interview with Leon from Orb Community Arts The Orb Community Arts blog has been up for almost two months now...
Read MoreLoyalty and trust
On Friday 9th July another important chapter in my life came to an end. After a seven year love affair, the 7 Spices Indian restaurant and I acrimoniously parted company, they got the house, while I get custody of the 25% discount card. And while it breaks my heart to see an era come to an end, what happened makes an interesting case study on reputation, loyalty and trust. So let me begin: As is customary for Leeds reunions, our friendship group went for a few social drinks then sauntered over to Woodhouse for a curry at the hallowed palace of meat: 7 Spices restaurant. Once seated, we...
Read MoreOrb Community Arts blog goes live
After a careful period of planning and analysis, another one of my projects: the Orb Community Arts blog is now up and running, telling the world all about the great work they’ve got going on at their Knaresborough based art and music enterprise. Form just a couple of informal chats with Leon and Mark at Orb, it was quite clear that they’re very enthusiastic and passionate about their mission: to promote a positive attitude to mental health and social inclusion within the community of Harrogate and North Yorkshire. With an in-house music recording studio, art workspace, computer...
Read MoreGet your house in order first
With social media, it’s tempting to run straight out the front door with all guns blazing, pistol duelling with every site in the Wild West of social networking but neglecting to take care of the obvious things back home first: the humble web site. Hands up, when I meet a new charity client I’ve been known to get a little too excited about all the great support services, case studies and community events they have ready for me to plug using social media. It’s very easy to start telling the world all about it, but without the collateral to back up the tweets and status...
Read MoreInformation Overload
It’s easy to become overwhelmed with the different silos of information that we’ve begun distributing our lives across: email, RSS and social media to name but a few of the contenders in the battle for our attention. The problem is only accentuated with the proliferation of smart phones so now there’s no excuse for not staying in touch when you’re in transit or held hostage to bodily functions in the smallest room. So I thought it’d be useful to share a few tools and tips that help me juggle my daily tasks in an age where if you hide from information …...
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