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Helping progressive non-profits build digital skills. Social enterprise. Tweets by @jeano.bsky.social. Free resources on our website digitalcharitylab.org 🙂
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Major election coming up in Ireland next week, and election interference is a real concern. I contributed to this online resource to help inform voters about how to spot and report illegal election interference - please use and share!
sites.google.com/view/electio...
Online resource to help voters spot and report election interference in Ireland
October 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
digitalcharitylab.bsky.social
What does Meta's announcement about the end of political / social issues ads in the EU mean for charities? digitalcharitylab.org/2025/07/meta...
Meta announces end to social issue advertising in the EU – what does it mean for charities?
July 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
digitalcharitylab.bsky.social
Uh oh apnews.com/article/meta...
Meta will cease political ads in European Union by fall, blaming bloc's new rules
Meta has announced it will stop all political advertising in the European Union by October. The decision comes in response to new EU rules aimed at increasing transparency in election campaigns.
apnews.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
digitalcharitylab.bsky.social
I've just signed this petition calling on the Irish government to not raise university fees. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/ke... @uplift.ie
Keep Your Promise - Don't Hike University Fees
I've just signed this petition calling on the Irish government to not raise university fees. Will you sign too?
my.uplift.ie
July 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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barnardos-ireland.bsky.social
📣Breaking - Our #BackToSchool Survey is Open! 📚

Do you have children attending primary or secondary school for the 2025/2026 academic year?

✏️Use your voice and have your say: www.barnardos.ie/policy/the-i...

#SchoolCosts #BecauseChildhoodLastsALifetime
July 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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justtreatment.org
1/ 🚨 14,000 babies in Gaza are at immediate risk of dying.

This catastrophic threat to human life demands urgent global action.

#GazaUnderAttack
May 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
digitalcharitylab.bsky.social
Who’s at the Ask Direct Fundraising Summer School in Dublin? 😊
Ask direct fundraising summer school leaflet with theme ‘time to fall in love in fundraising’
May 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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forward-action.bsky.social
Big changes to data law could transform how UK charities grow their supporter base. 📣

Join our free webinar to explore how soft opt-ins for email, SMS and calls can boost engagement and fundraising — and how to do it right. 🚀

Register now: actions.forwardaction.uk/a/webinar-ju...
Book your free place for our next live webinar
Soft opt-ins: How to grow your list without losing trust
actions.forwardaction.uk
May 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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barnardos-ireland.bsky.social
📢Are you an early years employee, early childhood educator or childminder in Ireland?

We are now offering FREE Library Membership, both online and in-person.📖

Register here⬇️⬇️

🔗 forms.gle/UauPUMNYvMgq...
May 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
digitalcharitylab.bsky.social
Great to see recognition of the wonderful social enterprise The Together Academy in The Irish Times today 🙌 www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...
‘It’s a stunning setting for any cafe, but this one has extra-special credentials’
At Dún Laoghaire’s Happy Out cafe it’s all about elevating expectations around young adults with Down syndrome – as well as good coffee, of course
www.irishtimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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madlinsudn.bsky.social
New campaign here too
HOME | We Show the Salary
www.weshowthesalary.org.uk
April 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
digitalcharitylab.bsky.social
Really disappointed to see that the main charity job sites in Ireland still aren't listing the salaries for all jobs. It should be a requirement in order to have the job published at all showthesalary.wordpress.com/about/
About
**A new team of campaigners are taking over Show The Salary. For more information please read this blog post and/or keep up to date on our social channels** Why we exist Show The Salary was born ou…
showthesalary.wordpress.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
digitalcharitylab.bsky.social
Extremely interesting research around perceptions of the popularity of climate action. If you're an environmental org, does your messaging address this? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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forward-action.bsky.social
If you’re a campaigner or fundraiser, you won’t want to miss this. Join our webinar on the 24th April, where we’ll discuss the five big tech challenges holding charities back.

Last few spaces here:
actions.forwardaction.uk/a/webinar-ap...
Book your free place for our next live webinar
Charity tech and digital mobilisation: tackling our sector's biggest challenges
actions.forwardaction.uk
April 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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sarahmiguel.bsky.social
Across the country, orgs will be forced to choose between being a sex-based women's service, having to exclude trans women, and abandoning women-only spaces to ensure inclusion. The latter option, which is the only one I'm prepared to stand by, places women at greater risk. Make it make sense.
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Jesse did not ‘question an aspect of the progressive message.’ He dedicated his *entire career* to popularizing the idea that progressives are unhinged, anti-science freaks who are foisting permanent surgeries on kids without assessment.
April 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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jeano.bsky.social
A handy thing - if you put -ai after your Google search term, it removes the stupid ai result at the top
April 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Hi pals! We send out a newsletter every so often with digital resources. Latest one went out this morning, it features a free landing page guide, Cookie Monster & more. Read and subscribe here 😊 mailchi.mp/digitalchari...
New free guide - build effective landing pages; Bluesky starter packs; A magical email engagement series, and more...
Digital Charity Lab Ezine, March 2025
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March 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
digitalcharitylab.bsky.social
Mailchimp really has dropped in quality so much, it's so frustrating. Scheduling an email isn't working today, and I've been waiting over 20 mins to connect to their support chat. All this after they *increased* their prices 😒
March 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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#jobfairy Communications Director role with @worldpressphoto.bsky.social in Amsterdam, deadline 13 March world-press-photo.homerun.co/communicatio...
Communications Director - World Press Photo
0,8 - 1 fte |  Amsterdam
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March 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Good piece about the haplessness of Trump’s political opposition in the US defector.com/this-is-uvalde
This Is Uvalde | Defector
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic politics, coverage, and consequences of Campaign 2024. Should Democrats att...
defector.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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stopfundinghate.bsky.social
On Friday a GB News host announced that "it's over for groups like Stop Funding Hate"...

Since then over *8,000* people have backed the call for Marks &Spencer to pull their ads from GB News: ==> actionstorm.org/petitions/ma...

#StartSpreadingLove #StopFundingHate
Tweet from GB News host @PatrickChristys: "It’s over for groups like Stop Funding Hate. People see through them. We’re in a new era. By all means ‘keep this going’ but from what I can tell most of the comments seem to be people saying they’re going to do more shopping at M&S!"
February 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM