Charity Comms, the professional membership body for charity communicators, recently held a conference exploring the opportunities digital media offers to reach key audiences, build profiles and demonstrate impact. To support the event sounddelivery created a number of audio reports with delegates and speakers. These were recorded, edited and uploaded online within the day allowing sharing and promotion to take place almost instantaneously. ]]> Charity Comms, the professional membership body for charity communicators, recently held a Digital Communications conference exploring the opportunities digital media offers to reach key audiences, build profiles and demonstrate impact. The conference aimed to show how charities are using the latest technologies and demonstrate how anyone can make digital communications work for their charity.

To support the conference sounddelivery created a number of audio reports with delegates and speakers.  These were recorded, edited and uploaded online at the event allowing sharing and promotion to take place almost instantaneously.

We also created a highlights package from the day combining many of the main speakers and common themes.

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If you’re interested to find out how this could work for your event or conference, please do get in touch.

In our latest podcast for Society Guardian we get under skin of charity campaigns and campaigning - what are the best ways to engage supporters and trustees alike. We take a look back at the recent party conferences and look ahead to the impending Spending Review and examine how its likely to affect the sector. Featuring contributions from Tom McLaren-Webb, Head of Campaigns at Action for Children and social entrepreneur, Craig Dearden Phillips. ]]> As the government cuts start to bite there’s no doubt individuals and organisations will gather together and start campaigns to protect public services. In terms of civil society, these campaigns take many guises – they may be fundraising, awareness-raising or lobbying campaigns.

Campaigning is integral to charities’ ability to get their message across and achieve their vision – whether that’s helping people to better healthcare, or a louder voice in society. But what’s the best way of starting a campaign and how can you attract people to your cause? Plus how can you show your campaign is having an effect? In this edition of the podcast we take a look at charity campaigning and hear from three individuals who all have first hand experience of the conducting hard-hitting campaigns.

A great opportunity to mix and mingle with MPs and ministers? Or a three week canapé vacation? The party conference season is now a mainstay for the policy and lobbying teams of many UK charities – but how to make the most of your time away, and maximise the networking opportunities. We get the lowdown from Jonathan Ellis of Help the Hospices.

And whether we like it or not the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review is looming fast. For many organisations tough decisions will need to be made. Social entrepreneur, Craig Dearden Phillips suggests it’s simply a game of cards and we have to decide which hand to play.  Listen to the podcast below, or check out the microsite for more information.

Programme guests

Tom Levitt, former MP and charity sector consultant

Tom McLaren Webb, Head of Campaigns – Action for Children

Noori Bibi, Project Manager – Young Muslim Voices, a recent winner at the Sheila McKechnie Foundation 2010 campaigner awards

Brian Lamb, former Executive Director of Advocacy and Policy at RNID & author of NCVO’s Guide: Campaigning for Success

Jonathan Ellis, Director of Public Policy & Parliamentary Affairs – Help the Hospices

Craig Dearden Phillips, social entrepreneur and regular Guardian columnist

Programme links

http://www.participationworks.org.uk/spotlight-pwne-members/noori-bibi-islington-council

http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/news/archive/989729/Digital-Campaign-Week-Action-Children/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH

http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/products-services/publications/campaigning-for-success

http://www.2020publicservicestrust.org/publications/