Links to free online courses and tutorials for each area covered by the tool
A list of free online courses and tutorials, plus additional resources, for each area of our measuring your digital skills tool. Use these resources to brush up on your own digital skills, or forward them on to your colleagues.
This list has been curated by NCVO. We do not necessarily endorse all content listed below.
Navigating
- Digital fundamentals (a video tutorial from Fluency on the World Wide Web and the cloud, and how to communicate, work and stay safe online)
- Staying safe online (Cyber Aware)
- Internet privacy basics (TechBoomers)
- Password basics (TechBoomers)
Content
- Make the most of your web content (Studyzone video course - free for NCVO members)
- Blogging for the voluntary sector (Studyzone video course - free for NCVO members)
User experience
- Beginners guide to UX research (article from UX booth)
- UX crash course: 31 fundamentals (a series of short lessons from A Hipper Element)
Social media
- Social networking sites (list of free online tutorials from TechBoomers)
- Strategic social media (Studyzone video course – free for NCVO members)
- Strategic social media- advanced (video tutorial from Fluency on strategic social media)
- Facebook and Twitter - intermediate (video tutorial from Fluency)
- Get noticed with social media - basic(video course from Google Garage)
- Dive deep into social media - advanced (video course from Google Garage)
- Social media toolkit (comprehensive toolkit from Skills Platform)
- Social media resources (advice to help you plan, manage and integrate social media into your business from Immediate Future)
- Designing email campaigns (video tutorial from Fluency)
- Connect through email (video tutorials from Google Garage)
Paid digital advertising
- Get started with search (video tutorials from Google Garage)
- Deep dive into display advertising (video tutorials from Google Garage)
- Be noticed with search ads (video tutorial from Google Garage)
- Diving into Google Adwords (video tutorial from Fluency)
Data and digital analytics
- Introduction into Google Analytics (video tutorial from Fluency
- Get started with web analytics (video tutorial from Google Garage)
- Analyze Your Facebook Statistics For Optimal Facebook Marketing (video tutorial on Facebook insights)
- Social media metrics: how you should be measuring success (Brandwatch blog)
- Data protection (information and guidance on Knowhow)
Project management
- Agile product ownership in a nutshell (15 minute video)
- What does a perfect agile marketing strategy look like? (Econsultancy)
- How to develop a digital strategy (Studyzone video course - free for NCVO members)
Behaviour and culture
- Third Sector Digital Maturity Matrix (a free tool developed by the digital team at Breast Cancer Care to assess the current maturity of a not-for-profit organisation's digital capability, compared with its desired target state).
