Cultural Institutions Using Instagram Stories to Engage Users

With over a billion active users, Instagram is an excellent way to engage your audiences. Instagram “stories” is a particularly engaging feature that allows users to provide live updates and share their everyday lives. The platform has provided an impactful way for cultural institutions to use Instagram stories to engage… Read More

What is a Design System?

A design system is a series of components that can be reused in different combinations. Design systems allow you to manage design at scale. Systems design is not new.  What’s new is how we apply it to our work. The design systems that I’m talking about… Read More

4 Facebook Alternatives Advertisers Should Consider

In June, a coalition of civil rights organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Color of Change, and Sleeping Giants, launched the #StopHateforProfit campaign, which seeks to pressure Facebook into changing how it handles hate speech and misinformation. To date, more than 400 organizations have publicly pledged to not… Read More

Adapt Quickly During Disruptive Times: Lean Digital Transformation

If these past three months have taught us anything, it’s that every organization needs to know how to act rapidly to adopt digital change. If your organization had not begun a large-scale digital transformation effort before the current health crisis, how can you adapt and transform digitally in short order?… Read More

Using AI and Adaptive Content to Improve Your Content Strategy

Content strategy is the art of organizing content so that people find what they need to help them take action. Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) make it easier to predict what content will be the most useful and effective with users, by predicting how best… Read More

Digital Health for Behavior Change: Stories of Impact

The global public health community has long recognized that a key to better health outcomes is behavior change — from helping a single individual make a different health choice to helping a local, state, or country government change policy that can impact millions of lives. Digital health solutions are an… Read More

Why Is Website Maintenance Important?

We all know the importance of having a well-structured website. But simply having the site up and running is not enough. Regularly updating and maintaining your site is crucial to ensuring that your site is running at full capacity. Just like cars, websites require maintenance to operate properly. Properly maintaining… Read More

Realign Your 2020 Digital Strategy

Co-authored by Hannah Studen, BBA ‘21 William & Mary The first few months of 2020 brought new challenges for organizations, and that was before the global COVID-19 pandemic. In the face of economic uncertainty and the transition to remote work, technology is becoming the primary channel of engagement, prompting organizations… Read More

How Does the Facebook Boycott Affect Nonprofits?

More than four hundred major commercial and nonprofit brands worldwide have announced they will boycott Facebook advertising in July in an effort to address hate speech and disinformation being spread on the platform. How does the Facebook boycott affect the nonprofit sector? Major commercial brands, including Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Verizon, Unilever,… Read More

Looking for a Simple Static Repository to Store Your Code? Satis is Your Answer

Our tech team is always looking for solutions to our partners’ tech challenges. When we are working with complex websites, we need a way to manage the various code repositories for these sites. This presents an issue because not all the code repositories we work with are public. Some are… Read More