This is just a brief wrap up Gingerling Design, including my ethos and motivation for making websites trading under that name. That project is now closed and I don’t do this work anymore following my dads death, however, I learned a lot so good to jot it down! Charity sector website burnout In my long…Continue reading What I learned making websites for charities
Category: Work
Monzo review
When I was working on a personal carbon footprint tracker with Cogo, I spent a lot of time looking at banking apps. Cogo used Open Banking to pull over users day to day transactions and then assigned each transaction a carbon footprint. I was pretty surprised at how much variety there was in banking app…Continue reading Monzo review
Member mobilization for Labour Party
I got the call 10 minutes before Rishi Sunak stepped into the rain to call the election: “We need you, can you start work right now?” Within an hour I had built the spreadsheet, imported in some initial data and started calling members. By the next day I had merged in more data from from…Continue reading Member mobilization for Labour Party
QA Analyst for Open Banking Carbon Footprint tracker
Who do call if you’ve got an app to repurpose, a team of developers starting any day, a behavioral science department raring to go and a ton of transaction data to sort out? Hopefully me! With experience of quality assurance, data analysis, a psychology degree and personal climate activism, this job was a perfect fit.…Continue reading QA Analyst for Open Banking Carbon Footprint tracker
Using Feefo with Prestashop/Thirybees
I set up feefo with my prestashop store but due to unrelated personal circumstances I never did much work with the website after this. Here are my notes from the time, tidied up a bit. Appologies the post lacks narrative, it’s got details of how I did each task without much info on what the…Continue reading Using Feefo with Prestashop/Thirybees
Campaign Infrastructure for Momentum
In early 2020 I set up Momentum’s phone-banking infrastructure and database. Following the 2020 General Election campaign, Momentum would work on the Rebecca for Leader Campaign: they needed to rapidly pivot their suite of tools to a new focus, while carefully navigating privacy rules. They needed urgent help to set up a new Nationbuider instance…Continue reading Campaign Infrastructure for Momentum
The Story Behind the New NECN Logo
Last year I designed a new logo and website for National Estate Churches Network. On the surface it’s just a calm, simple logo – but in reality it has a lot of meaning behind it. The logo is designed to break the narrative of estates being miserable places: it acknowledges the good bits of life…Continue reading The Story Behind the New NECN Logo
Twitter account access when you lost access to your email
I have recently been working with a UK charity called National Estate Churches Network (NECN). I’ve been helping them rebuild their digital presence after a string of issues, both technical and otherwise, caused them to lose their domain name, website and email addresses. As a knock-on effect they had also lost access to their twitter…Continue reading Twitter account access when you lost access to your email
Postcode based targeted email marketing for events using Mautic
Mautic, Open Source marketing software, can be used to send targeted emails about events to people on your mailing list who live within a radius of that event. The best thing about this process is the lists will always be up to date when you need them: next time an event is in the same area you have a list ready and waiting. Here’s how it’s done.
GDPR: you are allowed to maintain a blacklist, suppression list or stoplist. You are also allowed to freak out and panic.
In May the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force (and no, brexit won’t get us out of it – still no benefit to brexit. Sorry.) In my view this is shaping up be a complicated piece of law for small businesses to follow, both intellectually and technically. Worryingly, I’ve not heard much…Continue reading GDPR: you are allowed to maintain a blacklist, suppression list or stoplist. You are also allowed to freak out and panic.