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A collection of articles to help inform on a range of subjects from accessibility to SEO.

Top CiviCRM Learning Resources for Developers

We’ve rounded up the best CiviCRM learning resources for complete beginners, but here’s one for the devs with specialist sites to solve more technical problems. If you are a Drupal or WordPress...

Mailchimp vs. Mosaico

Mailchimp is well-known for its simple drag and drop email builder, and is popular with small and large businesses. However, Mosaico is a lesser-known, but just as powerful drag and drop email...

Latest Charity Tech Trends

As the pandemic has driven many charitable organisations to adopt a digital-first strategy, what are the emerging trends that have come from this?  Take a read of our tech trend roundup to...

Grant Management in CiviCRM

CiviGrant is one of CiviCRM’s many functions which is designed to track outgoing funds from your organisation. This makes it a useful tool for grant-giving organisations, such as foundations....

What is a Digital Inclusion Strategy?

You may have heard the term ‘digital inclusion’ thrown around lately and wondered if this is just another corporate buzzword. In fact, digital inclusion is what it sounds like, making sure that...

Top 5 CiviCRM Learning Resources for Complete Beginners

Whether you’re learning the ropes with a new CiviCRM set up at your organisation, or are looking to fill an appetite for learning, we have gathered the top five most useful resources to get to grips...

Caldera Forms: What they are and how to use them with WordPress and CiviCRM

Caldera Forms is a WordPress plugin that needs to be installed and activated to use with your WordPress site. Once installed, you can create forms to set up automated marketing communications and...

Why Digital Fundraising is Important

Digital fundraising, also known as “online fundraising” is what it says on the tin. Fundraising online encompasses all of the great benefits of the internet, such as a worldwide reach and low cost,...

Wix vs. WordPress: CiviCRM Edition

Wix, a popular low-cost CMS, has been under fire recently for running a controversial marketing campaign that impersonates WordPress unfavourably. As part of the campaign, WordPress influencers...

Battle of the CRMs: CiviCRM vs Salesforce

As one of the most well-known CRM systems in the world, Salesforce has been a go-to for many companies for digital transformation.  However, CiviCRM, an open-source customer relationship...

GDPR: What still applies post-Brexit?

As GDPR is an EU regulation it technically doesn’t apply to the UK anymore. We say “technically” because UK companies must still follow UK data protection laws, and GDPR is incorporated into this....

Marketing Tools for Nonprofits

In 2021 it is more important than ever to have an online presence, particularly if you're a nonprofit organisation that depends on volunteers, members, and donations from the public....

Setting up Webinars in CiviCRM

Although remote working can come with many positives, it presents challenges in running your events calendar as usual. Luckily there is still a way to bring people together for events through online...

Website Development Trend Predictions for 2021

The new year is here, and, as well as finally seeing the back of 2020 (!), we will see the emergence of new website development trends.  Only time will tell what will reign supreme, but for...

Preparing for the end of the eCommerce Directive

From the 1st January 2021, the transition period will be over, and Brexit will be in place.  This means that there will be changes to the way that online UK businesses can operate with EU...

How your CRM can drive your Christmas strategy

  The Christmas period is the most valuable time for e-commerce, but it is also a very important time for volunteering, internal marketing, and event planning. A CRM (customer...

Payment Processors and the upcoming EU Payments Service Directive

Article updated on 20/09/2019 From 14th September 2019, the European Commission is introducing new requirements to improve the security of online card payments. This directive is known as the...

Free Google tools - could your organisation be eligible?

In July, we wrote to all of our customers to advise that Google were changing the useage terms for their Google Maps feature which essentially means that organisations - regardless of status -...

GDPR: Boxes ticked, but is it really 'job done'?

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recently conducted voluntary information risk reviews with eight charities, and you can read the ICO's full report here. The ICO noted many examples of...

GDPR: A user guide for the latest CiviCRM extension

As many of you reading this will know, the CiviCRM community has been developing a communications extension to make it easier for users to work towards GDPR compliancy. You can read CiviCRM's blog on...

GDPR: Support for our clients

If you are lucky enough to be one of our hosted clients, Circle is your Data Processor and so when the GDPR comes into force in May 2018 our relationship and in particular, Circle's...

What is our role as your Data Processor under GDPR?

As of May 2018, the Data Protection Act (DPA) will be replaced by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Being a regulation rather than a directive, this means that it becomes part of the law...

How to share content on OwnCloud

  After an account has been created, you will receive an email with access details. You can start the sharing process with uploading a document/file.   In this guide I am going to...

What is Responsive Design?

Responsive web design (RWD) is the design of a web page in a way that creates an uninterrupted user experience across different devices. If you access a website with responsive design, you should be...