Empower Agency’s Charities of Choice 2022
Every year at Christmas, Empower give our team control to select the recipients of our charitable donations, which means those causes end up being close to our team’s hearts.
How we prepare for COP Climate Conferences
Since 2016 the UNFCCC Climate Change Conferences have been a dominant moment in Empower’s year, with at least one of the team on the ground in the Blue Zone, and the rest of the team supporting remotely. It is a privilege to be involved, but also a gruelling period of work, taking its toll on teams mentally and physically. Here’s …
Empower’s agency culture: empowering great work, happy clients, good working lives
A strong company culture is vital to delivering good work, and to living good work-lives. Empower has many retained and frequent returning clients, and a friendly, open, long-term team, which we believe is in large part due to our strong and personal culture. We’ve spent a lot of time on our culture, both consciously and instinctively, and with every evolution …
Empower named a winner of The Escape 100: the top purposeful organisations to ‘escape’ to
Empower came out in the top 100 of 13,000 companies nominated, thanks to our inspiring mission, positive impact and flexible working environment.
Job Opportunity: Director, Maternity Cover (Closed)
Empower are recruiting for a Director (Maternity Cover) to help lead our established team, working with amazing clients that are changing the world for good.
How to turn an offline event into an online virtual conference
Turning an offline conference into an online event has many benefits, but comes with lots of challenges. Here are our tips for going digital-first with your conference or event.
Showing Up with TEDxLondonWomen
Inspiration overload at the end of 2019 for the empower team who were privileged to work with TEDxLondon on their TEDxLondon Women event. We were in awe of the powerful culture created in this volunteer-led team – professional, impactful, supportive, fun and so hard-working. A joy to work with. The TEDxLondon team delivered an amazing event, complete with commitments to …
Hello Empower, goodbye Montfort
After six years of operation as Montfort, we’re excited to share with you, the new empower agency brand.
Freelance Designers sought – Work with Empower
Empower are seeking to increase our network of Freelance Designers to support our established team, working with amazing clients that are changing the world for good. We’re looking to get to know more talented designers who we can call on when needed. More details below about us and what we’re after. Please apply by sending a link to your portfolio …
Social Video Showcase: Empower’s latest action-driving social media videos
Empower’s updated social video showcase collates some of the best examples of our social videos, so you can see how social video can be used for different purposes.
Internally Displaced People – Glossary of Good
Empower have worked with internally displaced people, through several refugee, humanitarian and human rights organisations such as UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, Amnesty International and more.
What is a Just Transition? – Glossary of Good
Just Transition is a framework that has been developed by the trade union movement.
How to use Facebook Crossposting to drive views and receive an algorithmic boost
Facebook crossposting is simple, quick and easy to set up and action each day on your Facebook page, and can be a huge low-resource traffic driver and page booster.
Amplifying The Green Party’s social media and digital campaign during the UK General Election
Empower assisted The Green Party during an exceptionally busy time, joining the team in ‘all hands on deck’ moment and immediately stepping in on social media implementation with the appropriate tone.
Challenges for SMEs: empower’s Jaz Cummins featured in The Guardian
Empower Director Jaz Cummins was featured in The Guardian this week, commenting on the challenges for small businesses in 2017: “While the whole economy faces uncertainty, we are finding it easier to attract talent, partners, and great, engaged clients who love the affordable, personal and flexible service we provide.”
5 Facebook Live Tips For Broadcasting From Your Office
Planning a Facebook Live from your office, a studio or other venue? Following on from our 5 Facebook Live Lessons From A Crowded Rally, we’ve collated some lessons from Facebook Lives we’ve been part of, in more formal settings. For good technical and resource reasons, most Facebook Lives take place in formal settings – offices, studios etc. If you’re considering …
10 Digital Marketing Trends to Watch
The digital marketing landscape continued to change and evolve in 2016, but with 2017 right around the corner we thought it would be useful to highlight some of the digital marketing trends we’ve spotted coming down the tracks.
Be A Virus, Not Viral – YouTube For Social Good
“Be a virus, not viral.” – that was my favourite takeaway from the YouTube for Social Good event that took place at Google’s new offices in Kings Cross, London. The event brought together guest speakers from channels that have been successful in using YouTube for social good to discuss storytelling, audience development, social movements and power of video, including Shabnam from SoulPancake and Jason Yee from the Jubilee Project.
New Social Video Offering from Empower
Empower work daily on social video for global clients, and can bring this fresh expertise to your social videos. Social video is marketing communications video content optimised for social media platforms and audiences. Social video can offer incredibly high return-on-investment (ROI) and be produced very cost-effectively from scratch, or via your visual archive – photos, graphics, videos etc. Honest senior …
Digital Communications Conference Highlights
The excellent Digital Communications Conference is taking part in London today, and there’s an abundance of great tweets emerging on #DigCommsConf. The conference offers industry expertise and networking insight for charities, not-for-profits, the public sector & low-budget organisations, looking to increase the impact & ROI of their digital communications. The event has a brilliant programme and line-up of speakers. Sadly team …
