Here’s a 10 tweet summary of last night’s NFP Tweetup. I wasn’t actually able to attend the event, but that’s no barrier to summarising the best material from twitter 🙂
Innovation and failure – Luke Williams, RNLI
Set up organisation-spanning structures to keep an eye on trends:
.@RNLI have a 'future trends' group to look 5-10 yrs into the future: digital currency, drones, IoT etc #NFPtweetup
— Dan Papworth Smyth (@dansmythphoto) January 24, 2017
Formal approval processes often take longer than tech implementation work:
Half a day to set up being able to accept Bitcoin, 6 months of approvals to actually get live @RNLI @alukeonlife #NFPtweetup
— Dan Papworth Smyth (@dansmythphoto) January 24, 2017
How to decide whether to jump a trend:
- Where is this trend in its lifecycle? Has it peaked? Which other organisations have taken part?
- Can we relate it to our organisation?
- What time/resources do we need to make it happen?
- How do we make it authentic to the trend?
- Does taking part present any risks?
RNLI are using chatfuel.com to build a Facebook bot.
Chatfuel is a great tool (ht @ade), we used it to build a chatbot as part of a hackathon https://t.co/dCzYs7h9Pz #NFPTweetup
— Jonathan Waddingham (@jon_bedford) January 24, 2017
Tips for getting buy-in for an idea:
Need buy-in for an awesome (and viable) idea? Here's @alukeonlife's top tips #NFPtweetup pic.twitter.com/e5JC59971V
— Kirsty Marrins 📝 (@LondonKirsty) January 24, 2017
Writing a digital brief – Jonty Sharples, Hactar
Headline structure for a digital brief:
Steps to writing a great digital brief. #NFPTweetup pic.twitter.com/RuKEMCivcD
— Nathan Murray 👓 (@MrNathanMurray) January 24, 2017
Start with the user need and then think about the product. Not the other way round.
"If the press release is hard to write, the product is probably going to suck." Remember who you're making stuff for & why. #NFPtweetup
— Eleanor Dean (@eleanor_dean) January 24, 2017
Alternative digital brief guide (brought up in the Q&A): https://t.co/8T85WB4dCz #NFPtweetup
— NFPtweetup (@NFPtweetup) January 24, 2017
Digital Transformation approaches and language – Joe Freeman, Breast Cancer Now
Some resources on transformation recommended by Joe:
https://medium.com/@gadsby/a-digital-transformation-manifesto-1441faef7124#.h929p17e4
https://medium.com/@lucia_adams/my-love-hate-relationship-with-the-term-digital-transformation-db27bec0cde#.ss65flj3r
Transformation but not as you know it…
Digital transformation is mostly about culture and ways of working, not technology
I think what we're learning is that it's not really (just) about digital… #NFPtweetup pic.twitter.com/Bm3b2Y8mOL
— NFPtweetup (@NFPtweetup) January 24, 2017
Tactical tip: fundraising events teams are usually very receptive to new ways of working to help them reach their goals:
Like @JosephFreeman found at @Sue_Ryder, our events team is our go-to for upskilling/empowering in digital things. #NFPtweetup
— David P Hunt (@d_p_hunt) January 24, 2017
(This has been my experience too.)
Two tools for measuring how well your organisation is doing digitally:
#nfptweetup-types, another potential way to benchmark digital skills – take this @SkillsPlatform survey https://t.co/VZGR4R10Zv
— Madeleine Sugden 🌎 (@madlinsudn) January 24, 2017