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CharityConnect: The Digital Tools that charities are using
The digital tools that charities are using
At the ever excellent NFP BarCamp unconference organised by Laila Takehand her crew, I ran a session looking at the tools which not for profits are using and loving. We also discussed the tools at the other end of the spectrum which people have to use rather than choose to. The idea was to try and discover tools which we’d never heard of but would be useful to our organisations.
This is what we found out — tools are listed in order of roughly how much people liked them!
Social Media
  • Hootsuite
  • Crowd Booster
  • Talk Walker
  • Audiense
  • Stackla
  • TweetDeck
Project / Task Management
  • MeisterTask
  • Bug Herd
  • Remember the Milk
  • Week Plan
  • Trello
  • Assana
  • Confluence
  • Podio
  • Jira
Collaboration
  • DropBox Paper
  • Trello
  • Emmerge
  • Survey Gizmo
  • Whatsapp
  • Quip
  • Code Pen
Storytelling
  • Exposure
  • Storify
  • Tumblr
  • Vimeo
  • Soundcloud
  • AudioBoom
Design & Prototyping
  • Marvel
  • Prott
  • InVision
  • Adobe XD
  • Draw.io
  • Moqups
  • Snapseed
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Canva
A/B Testing & Optimisation
  • Visual Website Optimizer
  • Inspectlet
  • Hot Jar
  • Optimizely
Video Conferencing
  • Blue Jeans
  • Google Hangouts
  • Facebook Video Messaging
  • Skype
File Sharing
  • Box
  • Dropbox
  • Google Drive
Analytics
  • Snow Plough
  • Google Analytics
Events
  • Simpoll
Digital Marketing
  • Interests.me
Databases
  • Salesforce
Messaging
  • Franz
Others
  • IFTTT
  • Google Primer
  • Last Pass
  • Meltwater
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I' am interested  it is  wonderfully  where could I learning these programmes online , I really like digital marketing .?

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Thank you James. A very comprehensive list. How would I go about learning how to use all of these programmes. Are there any London based workshops or ways to learn from those who have such knowledge? I learn best face to face. Happy to barter. Am a generalist public sector manager with substantial fundraising experience. Thanks, Nuala

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Nuala Conlan   Great question Nuala. I would start speaking to folks at the various charity meetups that are around and seeing how they use them... Most are very very easy to pick up

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James Gadsby Peet   Hi James, thanks for the reply. Best wishes, Nuala

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Delighted that our tool interests.me was caught by your camera, James. I'm the founder of interests.me. We are good for small local charities (as well as community groups), but our tool would also be suitable for local branches of national charities, and a good way to bring their local marketing activities together and make them more consistent.
For those that don't know our tool, it helps with email newsletters (a bit like a super simple version of Mailchimp), and also print newsletters, blogging, posting to social media, getting email sign-ups, collaborating with other local groups and charities, and sharing your news and events with the local community (via community websites and community emails).
It's designed so that you can write something once, and share it in a multitude of ways almost instantly. It's specifically targeted at non-experts who only have (say) 1 hour to spend on communications per week, so it's good for volunteer-run local branches so they can manage their own comms, but national charities can pull it all together as well if they want to.
If anyone is interested in understanding more about interests.me, please get in touch - I am always happy to answer your questions here!

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Wow!  What a list!
I was recently introduced to Canva and think it is a great resouce and also FollowerWonk which has been incredibly helpful in analysing Twitter and in turn helping to schedule to the best time to tweet.
I've recently been asked to used Slack for group discussions and project management and have to say that I hate it!  One platform too many for me to cope with!

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What a helpful one stop shop of digital tools! Thanks for pulling this list together James :-) 

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This is really interesting - we use quite a few of these, and I will have to check out some of the others. Surprised to see Whatsapp listed in collaboration, not something I would have thought of using! Anyone tried this?

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Hey James - great summary from the event (and great session)! We're hoping to create a curated list of the best resources at charitycatalogue.com, so this is a really good starting point for identifying some of the most loved (and unloved) digital tools.

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