Policy area: Social Media

Did you change your Facebook profile to a cartoon character?

8 December 2010 – 1:25 pm

Users of Facebook this week will have noticed that a lot of their friends have turned into cartoon characters this week. A campaign has snowballed across the social networking site spread through people changing their profile picture to their favourite childhood cartoon character and posting a comment to ask others to do the same ‘to [...]

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Social Media, worth the extra workload?

10 November 2010 – 2:48 pm

Ive just come back from a training course on using Social Media for charities. It provoked some interesting conversations amongst the attendees, mainly all from small organisations around the region. One of the biggest gripes we all had was that social media has been bolted on to the typical communications worker role, without necessarily removing [...]

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Social Media and civil society

4 August 2010 – 1:06 pm

2009 was considered ‘the year of Twitter’ by the media and Facebook claims to have 20 million users in the UK. It’s getting hard for even die-hard technophobes to argue that social media is a flash in the pan that won’t impact on the way that we work. Capacitybuilders funds two organisations working at a [...]

By Andrew Samuel | Also posted in ICT | Comments (0)

Erupting forums

19 May 2010 – 11:10 am

Really interesting article in Third Sector daily about charity website forums and the issues charities face in moderating them.  Do they go in heavy-handed and delete comments when users criticize the way they are run? Or do they take a more liberal approach and try and engage with their critics through live web chats? Or [...]

By Carrie Brookes | Also posted in Communications, ICT, In the news | Comments (0)