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At Platypus Digital, we get to hear some amazing stories of charity digital folk doing great things in the sector. So here are two that we’d like to share with you. Bob Barbour, former director at vinspired I met Bob when he spoke at a DSC conference in 2019. He

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How charities are responding to Coronavirus

Introduction The coronavirus pandemic has had a huge effect on the world we live in. That much is obvious by now.  Our movements and lifestyle have been hugely restricted, the government is providing billions in government bailouts for companies and employees, and the number of confirmed cases keeps rising.  Charities

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Why we’re connecting charity leaders with digital experts

When the Lloyds Digital Charity Index report was released in 2019, it made the bold declaration that 45% of charity leaders don’t see digital as relevant to their organisation.  This led to a fair bit of shock and outrage on my Twitter feed from people who work in tech and digital marketing

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A Guide to Google Ad Grants For Nonprofits

What is Google Ad Grants? The Google Ad Grants programme offers nonprofits $10,000 of in-kind advertising per month. This allows charities to serve text ads on the search results page to people who are interested in their cause at no cost. What is the difference between the Google Ad Grant

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Our new vegan food policy

We recently held a big meeting at Platypus Digital for a client of ours. We brought together lots of different people from the many teams we work with there. We decided to try buying an all-vegan lunch for everyone from Pure (who do incredible wraps and treats). It went down

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The winners of Social CEOs 2019

Last night, we held the third annual Top 30 Charity CEOs on Social Media awards. Zoe Amar and I co-founded the annual awards back in 2013. It wasn’t long after Obama’s four more years tweet was at that point the most retweeted tweet ever. It struck us that people follow people, not

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