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The Platypus Digital values and how we created them

What are values? Values for your place of work are the guiding principles that are most important to you and help you make decisions about the way that you work.  Say an organisation had a value that was ‘The client comes first’. In theory, that means staff should make decisions

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Organisations that can help yours be more anti-racist

In our workshop with JMB Consulting last year, we identified lots of ways we could be a more anti-racist agency.  One of those ways was influencing the charities and other agencies we know and work with to be more anti-racist and to pool all our shared learning on how we’ve

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We support Get Home Safe

Like so many others, everyone at Platypus was shocked and saddened by the death of Sarah Everard.  It sparked a difficult but important conversation about women’s safety in our weekly meeting. It was an eye opener for me on what is clearly a universal experience for women. One small positive

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What the Google Core Web Vitals update means for charities

In May of this year (2021) Google will roll out an update to their algorithm that will include a new ranking factor called Core Web Vitals. Google regularly adjusts their algorithm, sometimes with minor changes and other times for broad core updates. The Core Web Vitals update will be a

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What the iOS14 changes mean for charities

Facebook Ads are changing. What does this mean and how can your charity prepare? On the 17th of December Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc posted a tweet that confirmed what we had already heard whispers of. Apple was giving people a choice when it comes to being tracked by

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