On Friday 4th Feb 2011 I was able to indulge in talking about 2 of my passions – old family photographs and information management! I presented a short 10 minute talk to the Taunton 4N networking group entitled ‘Flash, Bang Wallop, What a picture!’ I explained what information you could find within an old Victorian [...]
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Workshop: Facebook for Parents
Are you a parent with children who use Facebook? Do you know what they talk about online? Do you know who their ‘friends’ are? Do they? Do you worry that they are sharing too much of their personal information? Do they know how to choose from Facebook’s 150 privacy settings to keep their information safe?Join [...]
Workshop: Family History Research Online: getting started
Want to use family history websites? Not sure where to start? Feel overwhelmed by ancestry and genesreunited? Join us for this introductory workshop where you’ll learn: about some of the popular family history websites where to start your research what records to look for where to find them search tips to find those relatives who [...]
Weight not, want not
Here’s a great example of a company using the information you give it to customise its products to suit you better. I wanted to share this link with you primarily because I love the product, the company website and am impressed with how they are using information from their customers to personalise their product and [...]
Workshop: Social Media & Young People: keeping your children safe online
emmersons and Kevin Morgan Associates are delighted to present a workshop for foster carers and social workers about how to keep your young people safe when using social media. You will doubtless be aware of the amazing rise and great potential of the new social networking media: MSN Messenger; Facebook; Twitter; MySpace; Bebo; and the [...]
Estate agents….
Estate agents are the perfect example of why intermediaries are best avoided when dealing with information exchange.
You write a great Press Release…then the Journalists get hold of it!
It’s been great to see ourselves in print and on the web advertising for our Jelly event. However, in my quest for sharing accurate information, my new target is journalists. They surely have a responsibility to portray the information you provide for them as correctly as possible, yet this doesn’t seem to be the [...]
Banks lose interest when you close an account
It’s January and time to do my tax return. Now that I am banking online with e-statements I realised I’m missing the tax certificates which used to get sent out each April/May. I had a good look online at my e-statements but this information seems to be missing – bank customer service advisors, please take [...]
Dentists have their own flossify on sharing patient records…
‘Scuse the bad pun but something about this post needed to be lighthearted. The good news is that I have managed to get registered with an NHS dentist in Crewkerne. However my joy was short-lived when I discovered that NHS dentists do not transfer patient records. I’m still trying to work out why this is [...]
To tweet or not to tweet
Just posted a reply to Sathnam Sanghera’s Times Online article about twitter not being right for business: http://tinyurl.com/yjcr3qs He seems to have totally ignored the small business sector when writing this article! Strange, as they contribute a significant amount to the country’s economy. Stats dated May 2008 from the Federation of Small Businesses indicate how [...]
