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Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (No 2)

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Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (No 2)

May 2nd, 2023 - Sadie Burgess

On 8 March 2023, the Government confirmed that DPDI Bill (No 1) had been withdrawn and Secretary Donelan introduced the Data Protection and Digital...

Email Library: Emergency Alerts

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Email Library: Emergency Alerts

April 6th, 2023 - Sadie Burgess

The first nationwide test of a public warning system that sends alerts to UK mobile phones will take place at 3pm on Sunday 23 April.The government...

Midjourney AI - Augmenting the designers of tomorrow

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Midjourney AI - Augmenting the designers of tomorrow

April 5th, 2023 - Jakub Gacon

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Space is becoming more crowded each day, new cutting-edge AI technology is being made increasingly available to...

Proud Sponsor of UnAwards Winners Masterclass 2023

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Proud Sponsor of UnAwards Winners Masterclass 2023

March 2nd, 2023 - Sadie Burgess

It’s back – one of the best free learning events in the comms calendar - the UnAwards Winners Masterclass. Wednesday 19 April 202310:00am  -...

Cookies and Challenges: An interview with Joanne Sweeney

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Cookies and Challenges: An interview with Joanne Sweeney

December 8th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

Cookies and Challenges with Joanne SweeneyThis week I was delighted to talk to the multi-award-winning Joanne Sweeney, Chief Executive of the...

New email library for national campaign toolkits

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New email library for national campaign toolkits

November 30th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

On 30th November at #CommsAcad 2022, LGcomms and e-shot launched a new resource for LGcomms members.  Have you noticed that in many of the national...

Forfront awarded G-Cloud 13 framework contract

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Forfront awarded G-Cloud 13 framework contract

September 16th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

Tailored e-shot™ packages available on G-Cloud 13 from November 2022. Forfront, a UK-based software house, is delighted to announce that nine of...

Proud sponsors of PRCA Employee Engagement Conference

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Proud sponsors of PRCA Employee Engagement Conference

September 16th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

Building Engagement in a Hybrid World Join us on Wednesday, 21st September with host Annabel Dunstan of Question & Retain as we look at some of...

Are your emails digitally certified? 

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Are your emails digitally certified? 

August 9th, 2022 - Dan Hare

Apple is set to make changes to the way email is handled on the iPhone in September with the introduction of the iOS16 update. From this point,...

Forfront statement on Ukraine

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Forfront statement on Ukraine

March 1st, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

Forfront stands united with the international community in its support for Ukraine and its people. Our thoughts are with all those affected by...

Lights, Camera, Action: e-shot on Youtube

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Lights, Camera, Action: e-shot on Youtube

January 6th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess

We are delighted to announce the launch of the e-shot YouTube channel.We will be adding lots more content in the coming weeks on best practice,...

Cyber Essentials Plus

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Cyber Essentials Plus

December 16th, 2021 - Sadie Burgess

Forfront is proud to announce that it has achieved the Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation. .Cyber Essentials is a Government-backed and...

The impact of IOS15

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The impact of IOS15

December 14th, 2021 - Sadie Burgess

On 7 June 2021, Apple described some of the new privacy features it would offer in its forthcoming operating systems for the iPhone, iPad, Apple...

Marketing is not at your service: What we can learn from the ICO's Amex ruling

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Marketing is not at your service: What we can learn from the ICO's Amex ruling

June 15th, 2021 - Sadie Burgess

In May 2021, the UK ICO fined American Express (“Amex”) for sending “service message” emails that contained marketing.  This case is an interesting...

Apple announces the end of email open tracking

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Apple announces the end of email open tracking

June 9th, 2021 - Dan Hare

At Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference on 7th June, a new feature called Mail Privacy Protection was presented as part of the forthcoming...

Yahoo! Mail Gamble

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Yahoo! Mail Gamble

June 9th, 2021 - Dan Hare

Yahoo! and AOL have been sold again by Verizon Media to Apollo Global Management; owners of The Venetian resort in Las Vegas. The private equity...

Watch now: Smart Editor Overview

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Watch now: Smart Editor Overview

February 3rd, 2021 - Sadie Burgess

Take a look at the new email marketing capabilities of the e-shot Smart Editor. Create email designs that are responsive, accessible and interactive.

Privacy shield is no longer sufficient protection

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Privacy shield is no longer sufficient protection

October 13th, 2020 - Sadie Burgess

The pen is said to be mightier than the sword and now we find that the gavel is mightier than the shield.On July 16, 2020, the European Union Court...

G-Cloud 12 awards for Forfront for both e-shot & Trustbox

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G-Cloud 12 awards for Forfront for both e-shot & Trustbox

October 4th, 2020 - Dan Hare

e-shot and Trustbox now available via leading public sector framework Forfront, a UK-based software development house, is very pleased to announce...

Introducing the e-shot Referral Scheme

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Introducing the e-shot Referral Scheme

September 8th, 2020 - Sadie Burgess

We owe a big part of our success to the good word spread by our amazing community of advocates. We’ve always been really grateful for your support....

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