Expertise

There's a snapshot of how we can help you make the most our of your digital landscape below:

Digital strategy

One vision

Digital is a difficult territory to navigate, full of precipitous drops and unforeseen obstacles. Working out what your stakeholders want, how to make the most of their conversations online and how to really push things forward can feel like difficult paths to navigate. Thinking about the varying levels of digital literacy and competency within your organisation is vital; is the infrastructure there to allow digital innovation to thrive?

Equally, the core areas of content creation, online engagement and SEO can often get lost in an avalanche of internal business requirements and technical function.

That’s where we come in – our team of dedicated strategists work with a broad range of organisations to empower and enable them to create a clear and pragmatic vision for the future. We have helped The National Trust, The Royal Society of Medicine and Amnesty International - amongst others - to develop a comprehensive roadmap towards a fully-developed and measurably successful digital presence.

User experience

More than a feeling

As a genuinely user-centred design agency, the people who’ll end up using the things we make are at the heart of the matter right from the start. It’s not about instinct, or even educated guesses – our work is based on rigorous strategy and genuine insight, and then iterated and developed until everything’s spot on.

We’re all friends here, so everybody adds their own little bit of value to the process – our UX consultants work seamlessly with our creatives, and developers to develop a truly integrated solution. Good experience design is fundamental to the success of your project; we make sure nothing is left to chance.

This approach has helped Samaritans, Parkinson's UK, the Natural History Museum and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply - amongst thers - with a range of user experience projects.

The whole way through a project, our mantra is: Simplify, then simplify some more.

Creative

Bringing sexy back

Creative is a part of almost everything we do about Sift Digital. It’s more than just colouring in – we regularly complete projects ranging from complete rebrands to print design to cutting-edge digital campaigns to beautiful, accessible user interfaces. Collectively, our creative team has been responsible for award winning campaigns, brand work and websites for clients like Louis Vuitton and ss Great Britain, across the charity, membership and arts and heritage sectors.

Our aim is to help everything you do build an emotional connection with everyone who sees it, and our creative team would like to think they’re pretty good at it. They’ve got great hair too.

Technology

We built this city on rock & roll

Developers have a slightly unfortunate reputation, but they’re not all socially inept nightowls with Wotsit crumbs down their Metallica t-shirts. Ours aren’t, anyway – they’re all just as comfortable talking to you about the solutions they’re building as they are actually building them.

And solutions are what it’s all about for us – our aim at the start of every project is to get the most effective result that the budget allows. We’re Drupal specialists, but we do whatever’s required to get the job done – anything from just adapting what you’ve already got to building a new technical infrastructure from scratch. If projects were houses, ours would be modernist masterpieces – simple, elegant, and guaranteed not to fall over.

A few key examples of these include the BIG Lottery Fund, Carers Trust and Business in the Community.

Community Training

Let's stick together

We specialise in building online communities that bring real value to their members. We’ve helped young artists collaborate online; we’ve given people dealing with heart disease, full-time care and autism a space to share their stories and find support; we’ve even created a space for caravanners share their occasionally improbable holiday memories.

Beyond all that, we also train community managers and mentors to build on those all-important online conversations, and produce annual Community Reports which lead the way in benchmarking online communities across the sectors we work in.

We've built communities, nurtured talent and provided support for Media Trust, The Caravan Club and British Heart Foundation.

Sustainability

Viva forever

Any online community, whether new-born or fully-grown, needs careful nurturing day by day. New members need to be welcomed and shown the benefits of the community, while existing ones also need personal attention. Meanwhile the tone and direction of the discussions needs constant attention to ensure that they are providing real benefit both to you and to your community members.

To help you get things up and running, we can support you by offering one-to-one mentoring with your in-house community manager, gradually introducing them to new skills and knowledge as the need arises.

Equally our specialist team of content strategists and SEO experts will ensure that your site content is constantly subjected to testing, evaluation and iteration, to ensure that you get the most out of both your conversations and your content.