Recently I have been supporting the cause of a student from Sheffield Hallam University who is facing extradition to the USA on charges of Copyright Infringment (you’ve probably seen it in the news). This was for a website which he set up a few years ago, before he started University which enabled users to share [...]
A new directive from the EU on websites which use cookies could have massive consequences for thousands of businesses due to lack of awareness of the law and the resulting fines. The EU Privacy Directive relating to this was first introduced in May 2011 and at the time it was argued that businesses in EU [...]
Most people became aware of the SOPA and PIPA debate earlier this week when jessicazeun.com and many other websites went dark or displayed an alternative page for 24 hours in an attempt to draw attention to the issue. The most prominent site to do this was Wikipedia raising a cry from students all over the [...]
This one day course introduces techniques to help you develop your online social media presence and enhance your online marketing efficiency. It is a hands-on course with many practical exercises which you will carry out with your social media accounts. The course uses many free tools available from the World Wide Web. By the end [...]
Women in Business is a network of professional business women in South Yorkshire. Join us at one of our most popular networking events of the year – book early to avoid disappointment! Speaker: Julie Kenny CBE DL Julie Kenny is Chair and Chief Executive of award winning Pyronix Limited, which she founded in 1986 and [...]
For a while now I have been using the online influence ratings site Klout. For those who have not heard of this before it basically uses a range of algorithms on different social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Foursquare, Quora and more to estimate your influence and reach on the web. As more and [...]
Which? Computing has announced that 48 per cent of people who were asked said that they were unable to keep up with the number of changes that Facebook has been making to its data and security settings. This has been an issue for many people for a while now, as doubt is cast over the [...]
Most people will have noticed quite a few changes to Facebook recently, there have also been lots of other changes happening which you might not have noticed. Personally I think the launch of Google Plus may have quite a lot to do with this and I hope that these are not knee jerk reactions from [...]
