It’s been a couple of weeks for trying new things, so I figured I’d do a recap here. Trialling Zoom Whiteboards Today I ran a kick off session with three charities we’ll be working with to explore adapting and embedding a digital skills framework in their organisations. …

As I was traipsing up and down hills, walking a small chunk of the Camino de Santiago (I did 270km in the end) with my heavy rucksack on my back, I noticed what I think is a really nice example of design thinking in a non-digital scenario. — When we explain to charities about design thinking at work, we sometimes see that people get a bit unnerved by the words “digital” or “design thinking” and struggle to see how it can be useful to them in their jobs or lives.

This guide helps charities get set up to make Google Hangout calls. Connect with a team, service users or partners. — About Google Hangouts Google Hangouts is a tool to run online video calls or chats with up to 10 colleagues and friends, all from a distance. The set up is quite quick, and your guests don’t need to have a Google account to join your meeting. Steps to get set up Step 1 —Head to Google Hangouts

This guide helps charities get set up to make Skype video calls. Connect with a team, service users or partners. — Skype is a free (plus paid-for options) video conferencing tool that can be used on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. It can be used it for 1:1 meetings, team meetings and video meetings with people outside of your organisation. It takes about 10 minutes to get set up. Here, we’ll…

Making it easier for people in the charity sector to connect with and learn from each other. — General details Outcome area: Practice & Network Phases: Delivery Timeframe: Ongoing Doing the work: CAST — Tested “Randomised Coffee Trials” in May 2018 as a way to enable serendipitous conversations between charity staff. Summary of work Randomised Coffee Trials is based on this Nesta initiative. The trial has now evolved into Coffee Connections.

Since January I have been working with a group of sector experts, including Doteveryone to research the challenges civil society leaders face vis-a-vis digital and map where they currently for support, and to identify any gaps in provision of resources and training. Problem Statement We started out with a broad problem statement…