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Calum MacÙisdean (he/him)
Digital Services Manager
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Latest posts by Calum MacÙisdean
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
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
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
We were in need of a new website. Does this situation sound familiar? Our existing website had over 1,200 pages and posts, it was running WordPress with a bespoke theme and many plugins in various states of maintenance, the design felt dated and it was difficult to find content... Read more
Many of the tools we use in our daily work would cost a vast amount of money if we were a commercial organisation. Thanks to good-will towards non-profit organisations we are able to use wonderful tools at discounted rates or completely for free. In addition to open source... Read more
This is the start of something big – a project to improve digital communication channels at SCVO. Hi, I'm Calum I recently started working at SCVO and head up the Web Team within Digital. I'll be using this blog to document the development of all our web properties to help... Read more