A lovely opportunity to join our team 💜 with a clear progression pathway 🎯 while working from home 🏡 on amazing impact campaigns! 🌍 empower.agency/insights/car...

Will AI help or hinder our progress towards net zero? Our Co-Founder @benrmatthews.bsky.social recently attended the event “Will AI Make or Break the Energy Transition?” at #SXSWLondon to find out. Read his summary here 👇 empower.agency/insights/cli...

London Climate Action Week will be a pivotal moment for accelerating climate action this year 🌍 We've compiled some of the most exciting events taking place on - and offline - here's what not to miss 👇 empower.agency/insights/cli... #LCAW2025

In 2024, the world produced 400 millions tonnes of palstic waste. Today, on #WorldEnvironmentDay, we are joining the call to #BeatPlasticPollution - two months before countries meet in Geneva to continue negotiating the Global Plastics Treaty 🌊 Find out more: www.worldenvironmentday.global

📣 Research reveals the world is spending at least $2.6 trillion a year on harmful subsidies. This is accelerating the destruction of ecosystems and species extinction. We need governments to step up efforts to deliver a #NaturePositive economy through #SubsidyReform.

Last week, my son lost his first tooth. Unfortunately he also swallowed it, leaving me with one just option: to get to work forging some government documents. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Are your Facebook ads suddenly underperforming? 🗓️ Join us on 10th April for the webinar ‘Meta Changes: Navigating the new reality for nonprofits’ to learn how you can ensure your digital campaigns remain effective amidst Meta’s latest updates. Sign up below 👇 empower.agency/insights/eve...

Climate comms 🤝 neurodiversity To mark #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek, @hannahlloyd-west.bsky.social reflected on her experience of COP27 as an autistic comms professional, and the importance of creating a truly inclusive workplace 🌎 ✨ 🔗 empower.agency/insights/cli... #NCW #ThisIsND

Unbelieavable. It's only just been International Women's Day, but accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate has got courses on how to traffic women available on #Spotify. Sign the petition to have the course removed: www.change.org/p/demand-spo... Can we also get more men sharing this petition please?

Happy #BCorpMonth from Empower! We’re proud to have been a B Corp since 2022, joining a brilliant community with the shared belief that businesses can (and should!) have a positive and meaningful impact on people and the planet 🌏

For non-profit comms professionals, finding time for learning, knowledge sharing and networking can be tricky - but it’s so worth it 💪 Check out @benrmatthews.bsky.social's list of digital charity and third-sector comms groups you might want to join 👇 empower.agency/insights/soc...

My love for percentage calculator websites knows no bounds 💝

Want to stay updated on all things climate communications? 🌍 Check out our starter pack of brilliant comms/marketing professionals working on climate and sustainability 📣 go.bsky.app/CCH5ejL (and drop us a message to be added)

@jazcummins.bsky.social welcome Jaz! If you're looking to connect with climate folks, I have more than two dozen themed starter packs (click on my profile then slide to the right) and I also curate this feed of more than 4,500 scientists who study climate-related topics that you can pin:

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Are you working in climate communications and active on Bluesky? 🌍🦋 @empoweragency.bsky.social are creating a starter pack of non-profit climate communicators, to help the community stay updated on the latest sustainability news and learn from each other’s successes and challenges.

⚠️ Meta recently implemented significant changes to how it tracks paid ads These changes will primarily affect charitable organisations that work on health, social, or political issues. ⬇️ Our Co-Founder @benrmatthews.bsky.social explains how how to adapt. empower.agency/insights/fac...

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

Interesting thread on Meta is ending their Facebook/Instagram fact checking program.

If I was planning my organisation's digital marketing strategy for 2025, here's what I'd be doing: 🤳 Platform-specific video strategies, with a focus on 7-8 second videos without voice overs for platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels.

“#Cop29 is a betrayal of both people & planet by wealthy countries who claim to take climate change seriously. Rich countries have promised to ‘mobilise’ some funds in the future, rather than provide them now. But lives in vulnerable countries are being lost now.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The great and the small, all have trampled on one another in their greed, ignorance and pursuit of power. In the end, Voltaire decided, we are left with but one solution: to cultivate our own garden. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

McKinsey “are serving a client portfolio that is likely on the 3 to 5 degrees warming trajectory depending on what you believe about the rest of the world’s trajectory – this portfolio contains more than half of the world’s worst polluters.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

What the Men of the Internet Are Trying to Prove www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

"When farmland has become financialised in the way it has because of inheritance tax exemptions, farming can't work, so farmers need to realise that having an inheritance tax charge helps to reclaim farming for farmers and for the benefit of the people of this UK." www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9J0...

England’s national parks face a 12% real-terms cut to their budget which would lead to mass redundancies of wardens and the closure of visitor centres and other facilities, park leaders have warned. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Exciting to be at Triodos event in @wshed.bsky.social who today have committed to financing €500 million in nature-based solutions www.triodos.co.uk/press-releas... and to watch @mattgolding.bsky.social's Sea, Land, Sky film again.

Looking forward to @bsky.app releasing their "Starter Pack for Starter Packs" feature. #StarterPacksAllTheWayDown 🐢

You've never read an obituary lede like this one. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/n...

🚨Warning: Elon Musk A record of Musk's commentary on UK politics since 13 Nov, when he was appointed Trump's efficiency tsar The analysis suggests an uptick in vitriolic commentary from the preceding period, and a return to the conspiracy-laden remarks that characterised Musk's summer criticism 1/

New from the @empoweragency.bsky.social team: Bluesky's rise leads to a mass X-odus (and other X-it puns) 🦋 empower.agency/insights/soc...

New hero just dropped

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this. Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

This makes me happy

News analysis shared with @wired.com indicates that Substack hosts plenty of AI-generated writing, some of which is published in newsletters with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. www.wired.com/story/substa...

Look at the difference in traffic between Twitter and BlueSky when you compare my newsletter last week (image one) with the one this week (image two).

Major changes for UK pension schemes over 130 pages dropped last night. Expect a DC M&A spree, thorny overhaul of contract-based rules, forced pooling of LGPS assets and more govt action if schemes dont invest more in UK. Let's hope better performance does follow! www.ft.com/content/b515...

Oh, heads up Wordpressers, they've just added connectivity to Bluesky! This place is getting all legit!

New to @bsky.app? We’ve got some etiquette just for you! Turn on the little feature that reminds you to post alt text with your images. Alt text allows blind and partially sighted people to understand what's in your images using screen readers. Without alt text, it just says "image".

UK children's sector - still a work in progress: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Have gathered more starter packs here.

Uk public libraries: go.bsky.app/FBd1DrV

"This ad, created by New York-based agency BBDO, barely mentions fossil fuels, even though it was paid for by one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies. These kinds of ad campaigns are popping up all over." www.desmog.com/2024/11/13/g...

Has your charity set up camp here? I've only found a handful of UK non-profits with accounts so far. Let me know if you know of others or your organisation joins. 24 to date.... One hospice. No CVS. No councils. go.bsky.app/UVMCfpi

New starter pack filled with researchers and journalists studying our information environment, rumors, false information, how to correct misbeliefs, and ways to make it easier for people to find accurate information. I know I missed people so please let me know who else to add! go.bsky.app/T833yvS

👀 In the latest Shared Digital Guide, The Brilliant Club detail how they used #Miro #AI to summarise the key themes emerging from their user research - sharing the process followed, and the challenges & successes experienced. Check out this & all 83 Guides 👉 buff.ly/4gqUNN0

Hit me with links to your starter packs, my timeline is a little emptier than I would like.

Hi friends, can anyone recommend short/long reads on the ecological consequences of AI? I'd like a couple of links in the rotation to share with people who've started using it "to raise awareness" about plastic pollution and other eco issues who don't seem to know about the environmental impact.