Two audio case studies by The Audience Agency on the power of storytelling. In the first Richard Leeming talks to Dave Howard of Bespoken Media and Vic Turnbull from Mic Media about how they work with clients to make podcasts that tell powerful stories. In the second he talks strategy, specificity, and scalability with the ... Read more

Janet Alderman, Digital and Marketing Manager at the spoken word trailblazers Apples and Snakes shares how they developed new frameworks and audience plans as part of their time on the change management programme, Shared Ambition.

Mae segmentu’n hollbwysig i unrhyw sefydliad sy’n canolbwyntio ar gwsmeriaid, yn enwedig mewn sefydliadau celfyddydol. Dyma ganllaw ymarferol gan Ticketsolve, y darparwr meddalwedd tocynnau a swyddfa docynnau i gefnogi eu nawdd i’r Rhaglen Datblygu Ar Raddfa Fach: Cymru 2022.

Segmentation is crucial to any customer focused organisation, particularly in arts organisations. A practical guide by the ticketing and box office software provider Ticketsolve to support their sponsorship of the Small Scale Development Programme: Wales 2022.  

Aisling Serrant, Community Engagement Manager at the Museum of London Docklands talks about her creative approach to making the museum a welcoming, inclusive, representative space for all. One of a series of podcasts with museum people by For Arts Sake.

This case study is based on a session at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, when Chris Unitt talked to Sophie Heath, Director of the Museum of Royal Worcester about the positive impact digital has had on the museum over the past year during the Covid-19 pandemic and their participation in The Lab strand of ... Read more

This case study is based on a session at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, when Ranjit Atwal spoke to Emma Beck from St Mellitus Organ Restoration Project in Stroud Green, North London and Oonagh Gay, Chair of Islington Guided Walks, about a series of ‘podtours’ they have created. The ‘podtour’ is an audio walking ... Read more

Based in a former nurses’ home in Salford, the Working Class Movement Library is a treasure trove of books, pamphlets, archives, artefacts and fabric memorabilia relating to political and cultural institutions of the working class over the past 200 years.  As part of The Lab strand of the Digital Heritage Lab, the library was mentored ... Read more

During lockdown heritage organisations have expanded their learning offer to deliver programmes, resources and events online to continue to engage with their audiences. In this Digital Heritage Lab webinar recording, Amy Todd and Liam Cunningham from Dig Yourself consider what elements of online learning can we use to support the in-person learning experience. From expanding audiences, increasing ... Read more

Millions of people in the UK are digitally excluded for a range of reasons, at a time when there is more focus on digital and digital delivery of services than ever before. In this Digital Heritage Lab webinar recording, Christina Lister takes a closer look at what we mean by digitally excluded audiences, why and in ... Read more

This case study is based on a session at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, when David Johnson talked to Celia Gilbert from The Rose Playhouse in Southwark, London about the positive impact this small heritage organisation experienced since moving its events online.

This case study is based on a session at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, when Trish Thomas spoke to Liz Taylor, Curator at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery, about how the museum has used data and insights on their audience and digital channels to develop a focused digital content plan to help them engage ... Read more

In this session recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, Stephan Stockton MBE looks at how digital tools can help small to medium sized heritage organisations support the volunteering journey from recruitment and training through to ongoing management of volunteers.

In this session recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, Hans de Kretser and Phoebe Cleghorn share the best approaches to planning a social media campaign to achieve success across your digital channels, including: setting aims and measuring them again targets; how to reach your target audiences; optimising your reach; and what to post and how to plan content. This session ... Read more

In this session recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, Annie Andoh shares her top tips for creating quick and cheap ‘do it yourself’ video content for your social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. She looks at easy to use online tools that can help you can create and edit videos, ... Read more

In this session recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day,  Matt Ecclestone explores the key role email plays in digital marketing and shares his top tips on email marketing best practice focusing on marketing emails and email newsletters. He look at ways to help you measure the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns including ... Read more

In this session recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, James Coleman takes you through the basics of website ‘user experience’ and ‘navigation’. Looking at specific examples, James will explain what these terms mean and give you the tools to interrogate your own website and make improvements. This session was sponsored by Supercool.

In this session recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, Paul Blundell looks at the different types of plugins and extensions that you can add to your WordPress website to help expand its functionality including: custom posts and fields; tagging and content grids; event calendar and bookings; eCommerce and membership; and search.

Telling your organisation’s story is the key to engaging and reaching audiences and for heritage organisations that don’t have a collection this can be a challenge. In this session recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, Janet Alderman explains what makes a good story and why telling your organisation’s stories can help engage with ... Read more

In this plenary session recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, Edward Appleyard from Harewood House brings together all the key elements that you need to consider as you plan and develop your organisation’s digital engagement strategy. Edward explains what a digital engagement strategy is, why it is important and how it can help your ... Read more