Digital Heritage Hub Search

With so much content to share, it’s important to know who you’re reaching when you share your images, videos and resources online. What’s working well for you, what content are people enjoying and how are they engaging with it? In this resource by UpSkill Digital, we introduce a suite of tools you can use to track just that.

Your digital strategy should provide an overarching vision to guide the use of digital in the different areas of business within your organisation. Underneath this, you will need additional strategies relating to digital content and digital marketing. This guide explains their relationship and provides examples from other organisations on how these strategies have attracted wider and more diverse audiences.

Digital is a great way to help you identify those people who don’t engage with your organisation. In this resource, Christina Lister looks at the role digital marketing can play in audience development and the ways in which digital can help your organisation reach new audiences and visitors.

The case for using evaluation to gather data and insights to analyse and shape your future digital marketing is a must. In this resource Ranjit Atwal explains why and how you and your heritage organisation should be spending time tracking, evaluating and applying insights into your digital marketing plans.

Digital marketing is key in connecting your small to medium-sized heritage organisation to new and existing visitors and audiences. This resource by Christina Lister provides an introduction to what digital marketing is, where you can start if you want to develop your activities, and the benefits of doing so. It links to many of the other guides in the Digital Engagement theme so you can explore more about the topics summarised here.

Social media enables heritage institutions and practitioners to participate, preserve and interpret heritage content and practice. It can also support your heritage organisation to market itself and raise awareness of its practice to local, national and international audiences. This guide will provide a brief overview of social media platforms, tips for using them effectively to encourage participation and how they can be used to improve marketing and fundraising in your organisation.

In this guide Christina Lister takes a closer look at what we mean by digitally excluded audiences and how we can reach and engage them. The guide starts by setting out key definitions, explains how and why people are digitally excluded, and the impact of this. Christina shows how you can identify and understand your organisation’s digitally excluded audiences, and shares ways organisations can be more digitally inclusive.

Search engine optimisation can help people find your heritage organisation’s digital content easily. This guide shows you how to get your content to rank highly in the top results on Google by creating and promoting content effectively.

Ioan Marc Jones explores some of the key benefits to creating a digital content strategy, including gaining buy-in from employees, greater transparency, and a sense of consistency.

In this webinar Chris Unitt give tips and tactics on how to develop your digital engagement more broadly, and looks at places, people, collections and content. This webinar was recorded in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this webinar Chris Unitt looks at the digital aspects of audience development and the development of digital audiences. He explains how the different digital marketing channels ― website, email, social media ―can be used as part of your marketing and audience development activity. This webinar was recorded in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A comprehensive guide to making your marketing activity and communications accessible to the widest number of people. This version was updated in 2020 by Grace McDonagh, Marketing Officer, Artsadmin in partnership with AMAculturehive, with support from the Unlimited, Artsadmin and Shape Arts teams. The guide is also available as a PDF, large print, audio and Easy Read formats.

Emails play an important role in digital marketing and email marketing platforms can help you make the most of this marketing tool. In this video recorded at Digital Heritage Lab’s Digital Skills Day, Paul Blundell introduces you to a range of providers to show how email automation can make your working life easier and help you decide which one to use.

Sailortown Regeneration is a people-led redevelopment organisation based in the Belfast Docks. In this case study Dr Ellie Pridgeon explains how Sailtortown successfully delivered a remote and popular St Patrick’s Day Live event in March 2021, despite Covid-19. The event was streamed around the world and provided Sailortown with the opportunity to develop its inhouse digital communication capacity. Sailortown have been mentored by Ellie as part of The Lab strand of the Digital Heritage Lab.