It has been interesting to watch as a spate of updates to policies have come forth from the various online networks and organisations. So far, we’ve had LinkedIn and Facebook making changes to their privacy policies last year and Google has also made a major change to their 60 privacy and and terms of service policies – condensing them into a single one that should (in theory) be easier to understand. Continue reading
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Hey You! What’s in it for me? Social Media for engagement and funding in the non-profit sector
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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
Latest social media workshops and news from the Social Web
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
WordPress – we love you and your updates
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
LinkedIn adds Polls to groups
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