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
[email protected] 01225 470460
www.eduserv.org.uk
