Author: Zoe Amar

Zoe is director of Zoe Amar Communications, a marketing and digital communications consultancy who have worked with leading organisations including ActionAid, Crimestoppers, Macmillan and Anglia Ruskin University. She blogs for The Guardian about charities and communications and is on the advisory board for The Guardian Voluntary Sector Network. She co-founded the charity #socialceos awards.


5 key takeaways from the Charity Digital Skills Report

Last week we launched the second Charity Digital Skills Report in partnership with Skills Platform, our annual barometer which measures…


4 resources to help your charity understand where it is at with digital

In digital, as with everything, knowledge is power. Measuring how your digital channels are performing is great, but if you…


Are digital skills still top of the agenda for charities?

Earlier this year we partnered with Skills Platform to publish The Charity Digital Skills Report. The aim of the report…


Have the wheels come off agile?

As someone who advises organisations to be more agile, I was shocked to read that British businesses waste an estimated…


What every fundraiser can learn from The Charity Digital Toolkit

In our Charity Digital Skills Report with Skills Platform last month we mapped digital skills across the UK charity sector….


The Charity Digital Skills Report: how the sector should move forward with digital fundraising

By now you may have seen The Charity Digital Skills report. If not, Skills Platform and our agency partnered to…


6 skills no one teaches you in charity digital – but should

For me 2017 is about one thing: skills, skills, skills. With Brexit and Trump on the agenda, our best weapon…


7 social media resolutions for charity leaders

Chances are that your CEO and others from your leadership team have made a new year’s resolution to start using…


5 things I’ve learned from being a digital trustee

By now you may well have seen the guidance on how charities should be using digital which we’ve written in…


6 takeaways for fundraisers from the charity social media toolkit

If you need help with social media, where do you go? You might ask a colleague, go on a course…


What skills will the fundraisers of the future need?

  In the run up to the Institute of Fundraising conference on 4-6 July, I’ve been wondering what skills the…


Seven ways to encourage your leadership team to go digital

I’m really excited to be working on a new Third Sector Digital Leadership skills course with The School for Social…