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Supporting Scotland's vibrant voluntary sector

Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.

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New service delivery models

organisations to share best practice through regular DigiShift zoom calls, DigiListen podcasts and blogs,up-to-date contact page – with a shift to remote working, you will need to set up a divert to mobile or cloud-based,These are popular platforms and are easy to use.,Both platforms can be set up to send auto-replies and do some basic tagging of questions.,See also our blog post on questions about privacy and security when using Zoom.If you’re running a Zoom

https://scvo.scot/support/digital/service-delivery

Websites and data protection: what you need to know

All good things must come to an end and this, sadly, is the last in our series of blogs on data protection,This week’s blog will focus on the Eighth DPP which regulates 'international transfers' involving Personal,If your website collects service user data then you need to be data aware At this point you are probably,Do you use, or thinking about using, a cloud based platform for your computing system?,Cloud computing offers access to a range of technologies and services typically delivered over the internet

https://scvo.scot/p/14308/2017/01/16/websites-and-data-protection-what-you-need-to-know

Developing this website

to allow press releases and blog posts to be publicised, and to advertise services.,Rolling out Good HQ as a trust and engagement platform for the sector.,Goals Represent all of SCVO's platforms in one place, under a coherent style.,Mentimeter (a useful collaborative feedback/graphing tool for events) to produce the following word cloud,This allows us to manage documents in a cloud-based environment and the new website technology stack

https://scvo.scot/p/24481/2018/01/31/developing-this-website

Needing some digital inspiration?

To hear more about how we inspired participants to get more digital check out Maddie’s blog.,explore how myself and my organisation can be better digitally minded and promote opportunities for service,delivering a series of short, engaging sessions taking a closer look at many of the digital tools, platforms,what creative digital tools you can use to get them to go crafting crazy; from blue sky thinking with cloud,based platforms to making your digital content sing (maybe even literally), our Meet Ups will inspire

https://scvo.scot/p/12862/2016/07/12/needing-some-digital-inspiration

Charity sector data strategy and innovation with Elasticsearch

Additionally, the core of our new technology platform was to use Elasticsearch as a data store, not only,Moving to Elasticsearch Service We looked into self-hosting an Elasticsearch cluster.,Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud has been a good fit for our needs, and it has proven highly reliable,Kibana on Elasticsearch Service to monitor and maintain our content.,This blog post was also published as a guest blog with Elastic.

https://scvo.scot/p/31612/2019/06/05/charity-sector-data-strategy-and-innovation-with-elasticsearch

6 big questions charity digital leaders need to ask

Many of whom would never have accessed a service in a physical location.,“For 90% of ideas for tech for good, there will already exist code or platforms that provide 80% of the,Visit organisations who have made success of specific platforms before investing in them – this simple,design approaches, using flexible technology, shifting to the cloud or putting cyber security measures,A version of this blog originally appeared on Charity Digital News.

https://scvo.scot/p/33081/2019/10/18/6-big-questions-charity-digital-leaders-need-to-ask

Altruism

Team collaboration Slack This is a fast and functional team messaging platform that allows group and,Trello Trello is an amazing free-form task management system that I could write a whole blog post about,which offers greater flexibility, administrative controls, and features such as integrations with other services,Salesforce Salesforce is used to store organisational data in the cloud. Learn more...,Synovations are a Community Interest Company that help non-profit organisations use cloud technology

https://scvo.scot/p/24694/2016/05/02/altruism

Digital checkup in charts

In this blog I’ll take a look at which tools organisations are using, what they are planning to prioritise,This blog draws on checkup results from the last 6 months, covering just over 50 organisations.,In our next blog, we’ll look at checkup results by organisation size and area of work.,of organisations are starting to see the benefits of a cloud-based collaboration platform like Microsoft,Very little online booking A basic part of delivering online services, I was surprised to see so few 

https://scvo.scot/p/44582/2021/08/03/digital-checkup-in-charts

10 no-cost, high impact digital changes you can make today

Get onto a cloud-based platform like Microsoft Office 365 or Google’s G Suite. ,Cloud-based collaboration and document storage is an absolute must for remote working.,Digital services are only useful when they meet user needs.,For example, combine an online booking service like Calend.ly along with email reminders.,core content and repackage it in bitesized chunks that meet your user’s needs (that’s how I wrote this blog

https://scvo.scot/p/42583/2021/03/02/10-no-cost-high-impact-digital-changes-you-can-make-today