Almost all non-profit organisations and charities in the UK are focussed on just two things, the first is delivering their services and products as outlined in their charitable objectives and the second is finding the funding to do this. As a result many find that they are not necessarily exploring all the options they have when it comes to developing their ‘business’ model. Continue reading
2012 is already promising to be a busy year and we are only three days into January. Coming up though we have presentations to prepare to brand new audiences, we are venturing into Devon with our workshops and are completing some major projects with clients that have been on-going over the last 12 months. Finally, we are looking forward to starting work with some brand new clients too and will be working on our online social media training centre too. Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the latest and greatest WordPress 3.3.0 upgrade (named Sonny after Sonny Stitt?) there is now WordPress 3.3.1. Now we know that after any major release (and 3.3.0 was a major release) that there rapidly follows at least one (usually more) updates with bug fixes issued for maintenance and security purposes. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Continue reading
I’ve just popped onto LinkedIn after my extra long Christmas break and discovered that they have added some new functionality to Groups. They’ve added the ability to create Polls which could be a handy little way to gather almost instant feedback about things we are interested in from amongst the people that are most likely to have the right sort of background and knowledge to share it with. Continue reading
Linda and Steve will be attending the meeting of The Hub at Basepoint in Exeter on the 19th January to make a presentation to delegate about Social Media for Business. Following on from the presentation they will be holding a mini surgery for anyone who has any ‘quick queries’ that they would like some help with about how to use Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to help grow awareness of their business or organisations. Continue reading