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Calum MacÙisdean (he/him)
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Latest posts by Calum MacÙisdean
Today is International Volunteer Day. Volunteer Scotland and SCVO today launched a redeveloped volunteer search website with a new address - volunteer.scot. This has been a joint project between Volunteer Scotland and SCVO. It's a full rebuild from scratch on an in-house SCVO... Read more
We've launched a new website for TFN (Third Force News). The previous site was built and hosted by an external digital agency. The new one is built and run entirely in-house by our Digital Services team. TFN Premium gives access to further content on the new site: the full... Read more
We have recently launched a major upgrade to our Funding Scotland service. Funding Scotland gives access to up to date, high-quality information on funding opportunities for voluntary organisations. It is free to any organisation in Scotland and lets you search over 1,000 funding... Read more
We've launched My SCVO, a single sign-on account for our public services. We spent the past year building My SCVO in-house as a shared authentication system that any of our public services can use, then migrated Funding Scotland's existing accounts across so they became the first... Read more
Our coronavirus information hub has grown fast. What started in March as a single guidance page linked from a banner on our homepage is now one of the biggest sections of our site. The banner went up on 10 March, before lockdown was even announced, pointing to a page of guidance... Read more
If you are looking for information, advice, support or want to help out; we have launched a new website where you will find lots of information: https://coronavirus.scvo.org Use the search facility to find help with: Emotional or social support Food/grocery delivery Mutual aid... Read more
The Saltire Awards website was recently re-launched with a new website frontend built by SCVO. This was developed in-house by SCVO in close collaboration with TSIs (Third Sector Interfaces). Find out more about TSI Network Scotland. TSIs across the whole of Scotland will... Read more
When I started at SCVO three years ago, we maintained a wide portfolio of websites developed in different languages and technology stacks, including WordPress, bespoke ASP.NET, and PHP/MySQL. We also had a strategic direction to move all business data from separate databases into... Read more
We've launched Volunteer Scotland Search, a new site for finding volunteering opportunities and organisations across Scotland. You can search or browse opportunities and organisations, see them on a map, and register interest directly, which lets the local Third Sector Interface... Read more
In developing this website, we went through the following process: Define a project scope Document user needs Investigate existing usage patterns and audience profiles (analytics) Requirements gathering ("As a ... I need/want/expect to ... so that ...") Information architecture... Read more