charity technology conference presentation

Felicity PointerWeb Officer,

British Red Cross

David PeelWeb developer, Eduserv

John SimcockClient Director, Eduserv

Engaging with donors in a mobile market - A British Red Cross case study

Introduction• Eduserv - a NfP IT Service Provider

– Managed Hosting & Cloud– Web Development– IAM– Licence Negotiation

• Why Eduserv?

A crisis can happen anywhere, and to anyone.

As well as helping people abroad, the British Red Cross helps more than a million people in the UK every year.

Providing practical help in emergencies, short-term care in the home, and teaching life-saving first aid skills.

British Red Cross digital strategy

Digital Fundraising Forum, Summer 2012

Driving Donations• Mobile donation conversion rates

lower than on desktop

• Ready to take donations in an emergency

• Payment gateways

Business case for mobile

• Increase in mobile traffic

• Lower donation conversion rate

• Nature of mobile usage

Digital Fundraising Forum, Summer 2012

• Why Sitecore?

• Why develop a mobile site and not an app?

• Why those user journeys?

Near you widget - Before

Near you widget - After

Near you widget results - Before

Near you widget results - After

Donations

Donation widget

Solutions•Mobile or app?•Separate technology site or integrated solution?•Information architecture (IA) approach?•COPEing with content•Mobile detection, redirection and SEO

Mobile or app?

Separate mobile site or integrated solution?

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HTML5HTML5 is a group of many different technologies

We used:•HTML5 Boilerplate http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile/•Best practice mark-up•Geo location services API

Geolocation

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Information architecture

Shared contentCOPE-ing with content

CreateOncePublishEverywhere

Device detection and redirectionWe used 51degrees.mobi http://51degrees.mobi

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Summary•Mobile web – Wide device coverage, cost effective

•Integrated technology solution – easily share content, redirection, APIs

•Separate content tree for information architecture – total flexibility, user focused journeys

•Shared and customised content

•Intelligent mobile site redirection dependent on context

What worked well•User-centered design•Iterative process•Talking to the developers•Mobile first

What didn’t work so well•Iterative process•Deployment

•Donation journey during a live emergency

•Mobile donations during a live appealNext steps:

For more information contact Haylie Oriot, Charity Client Manager, Eduserv

Haylie.Oriot@eduserv.org.uk 01225 470460

www.eduserv.org.uk