Supporting, innovating, collaborating and marketing the hospice, charity and not for profit sector
The TalkCPR team are pleased to announce that the project has won a prestigious award from the Royal College of Physicians. This is a project that I have helped develop and built the website for.
For further details about the award visit: https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/winners-announced-rcp-excellence-patient-care-awards-2019
Lowlands Festival (Amsterdam) 16th – 18th August
Lowlands is an annual three-day music and performing arts festival, held in the Netherlands. This year’s artists range from New Order to Jorja Smith. The Digital Legacy Association are collaborating with the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences to help make those attending the festival contemplate their own mortality and digital legacy. It will take place in the scientific field from 12pm until 5pm each day. Details
South West End of life Network (Torquay) 17th October
A version of our flagship digital assets and digital legacy workshop and training course will be ran on the south coast. This event is not open to the general public.
Hospice UK Conference (Liverpool) 20th November
We will be speaking about the work we devise and deliver at Hospice UK’s annual conference in Liverpool. Details
STEP – Digital Estates: A Deep Dive into Managing Digital Assets (London) 22nd November. Details
STEP is the worldwide professional association for practitioners dealing with family inheritance and succession planning. We will deliver a presentation titled ‘Digital Asset Estate Administration: Where Do You Begin – Email and Social Media‘.
If you would like me to speak at your conference or event get in touch
This morning I spoke on BBC Breakfast about the importance of making our end of life wishes know. It follows this weeks court ruling in which a judge ordered Apple to provide the family photos and videos stored on the late Matt Thompson’s iPhone.
The episode can be see in full on BBC iPlayer.
Gaming and geek culture inspired me as a child and continues to inspire me as an adult. I am therefore very, very excited about the Retroplay Festival coming to Leighton Buzzard. With all profits going to the Autism Bedfordshire charity be sure to put this in your diary…
See you in the Ecto-1 🙂
Yesterday I spoke at the Royal College of Nursing about the role of social media in healthcare and end of life care. I would like to thank the RCN for inviting me, it was an honour.
I was interviewed on BBC Click last week about my social media, end of life planning service DeadSocial.org.
The full episode is now availalable on BBC iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0694k65/click-29082015
This week @BBCClick explores digital legacy & death in today's world. Full episode ☛ http://t.co/ooI5zhDEiL ☚ #YODO pic.twitter.com/3msN7z5Nna
— DeadSocial (@DeadSocial) August 29, 2015
1. 59% of viewers will watch a video to completion that is less than one minute. – Wistia
2. 92% of mobile video viewers share videos with others. – Invodo
3. 65% of executives have visited a vendor’s site after watching a video. – Forbes (39% have called a vendor after watching a video)
4. 70% of marketing professionals report that video converts better than any other medium. – MarketingProfs
5. When marketers included a video in an email, the click-through rate increased by 200% – 300% – Forrester
6. The average internet user spends 88% more time on a website with video. – Mist Media
7. 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. – YouTube (That's a lot of cat videos!)
8. 64% of consumers are more likely to buy a product after watching a video about it. – comScore
9. Visitors who view videos stay on web sites an average of 2 minutes longer than those who don’t view videos – comScore
10. 59% of senior executives prefer to watch video instead of reading text, if both are available on the same page. – Forbes Insight
11. Homepage videos are shown to increase conversion rates by 20% or more. – ReelSEO (Read about how our client got a 34% increase in conversions)
12. Using video on landing pages can increase conversion by 80% – Unbounce
13. Mobile makes up almost 40% of global watch time on YouTube. – YouTube (6 billion hours of video are watched monthly on YouTube)
14. 1.8 Million Words is the value of one minute of video. – Dr. James McQuivey, Forrester
15. Only 24% of brands are using online video to market to consumers. – Kantar Media
Data collated by Adeli Studios. To find out more about using video to market your brand click here
About the Funeral Roadshow
The funeral roadshow showcase a range of charities and not for profit organisations in St Christopher's Hospice. It is free to attend so come down if you can make it and say "hello". http://www.stchristophers.org.uk/news/funerals-roadshow-at-st-christophers
About Byw Nawr
I am delighted and honoured to have been invited to speak at two Byw Nawr's launch events in Wales. Byw Nawr has been created to promote a healthy and realistic attitude to death and dying in Wales.
Byw Nawr (or 'Live Now' when translate into English) is the sister initiative to Dying Matters in England and is supported by the Welsh Government.
Byw Nawr Launch Event, Science Hub, Welsh Assembly
http://deadsocial.org/blog/253-byw-nawr-launch-events
Byw Nawr Launch Event, Connah’s Quay Health Centre Fron Road Connah’s Quay Deeside Clwyd, Wales
http://deadsocial.org/blog/253-byw-nawr-launch-event
About The Digital Legacy Conference
The Digital Legacy Conference is ran by DeadSocial will take place in London. It is free for all to attend however tickets need to be reserved in advanced. The conference will explore how the internet has changed the way in which we remember and grieve forever. It will also examine how our digital footprint will ultimately help determine both our legacy and our digital legacy when we die. www.digitallegacyconference.com
DeadSocial's 'Tweet Wall' & 'Before I Die… Graffiti wall' in our #YODO Pop-Up shop for Dying Matters Awareness Week 2014.
I was recently filmed by the wonderful folk over at Google. The video below is my short tutorial highlighting how I have used events to help promote my start-up DeadSocial. A massive "THANK YOU' to Liz and the Google Launchpad crew. To learn more watch the video below. If you like it feel free to share 🙂
We are happy to announce that we are going to be a media partner for the Social and Digital Marketing Conference 2015 once again this year.
#SMWF Europe is the premier event for digital & social marketing professionals taking place in London’s Vinopolis, 8-9 June providing top-level strategic advice and digital marketing insight around how to engage customers, manage brand perceptions, empower employees and open untapped audiences through diverse media channels. More information TBA closer to the time.