Margaret O'Donnell, Head of Digital at British Red Cross, David Peel, Web developer at Eduserv and Charity Client Manager at Eduserv spoke at NfP Technology 2012 about how British Red Cross optimised their site for mobile.
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Mobile Application and Web Development - A British Red Cross Case Study
1. Engaging with donors in a mobile market
- A British Red Cross case study
Felicity Pointer David Peel
Web Officer, Web developer, Eduserv
British Red Cross
John Simcock
Client Director, Eduserv
2. Introduction
• Eduserv - a NfP IT Service Provider
– Managed Hosting & Cloud
– Web Development
– IAM
– Licence Negotiation
• Why Eduserv?
3. 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.
16. Solutions
•Mobile or app?
•Separate technology site or integrated
solution?
•Information architecture (IA) approach?
•COPEing with content
•Mobile detection, redirection and SEO
19. HTML5
HTML5 is a group of many different
technologies
We used:
•HTML5 Boilerplate
http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile/
•Best practice mark-up
•Geo location services API
23. Device detection and redirection
We used 51degrees.mobi
http://51degrees.mobi
FreeDigitalPhotos.net
24.
25. 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
26. What worked well
• User-centered design
• Iterative process
• Talking to the developers
• Mobile first