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  Time to waffle?

  Wafflebox is a free service that enables you to receive voice messages on your website, Facebook profile, MySpace, Friendster, Tagged or your blog. When you join you will be given a unique telephone number, an 0845 number charged at a national rate, your friends can leave a voice message in your…

  August 10, 2008
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  Five Social Media must do for politicians

  There are thousands of social media sites, which for someone who hasn’t even got a Facebook profile must be overwhelming. Whilst I have written about creating a profile network I realise that to start with many politicians will need to take a few ‘baby’ steps into the realm of social…

  June 17, 2008
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  Fake profiles on Facebook, is someone pretending to be you?

  One of the greatest compliments is to be copied, however if you are a famous person someone pretending to be you is full of hazards especially if they use your photograph, name, location and age to try and persuade people they are you then write as you saying things you…

  June 16, 2008
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  Guidelines for producing YouTube video

  YouTube is an excellent way to quickly and easily get across a message. When creating these you need to take some of the following into consideration. Setting up an account or ‘channel’ is free and is very easy to do. Even if you have video on your own website you…

  June 10, 2008
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  Controlling your privacy on Facebook

  A simple and easy guide to how to set up your privacy settings on Facebook. I mainly use Facebook to communicate with my friends, facilities like sharing photos of fun nights out are great. But what do you do when someone you would not want access to this asks to…

  June 3, 2008
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  The True Face of Facebook Democracy

  Following the defeat of Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral Elections in May 2008 I set up a Facebook page called ‘Boris Watch’. The idea of the page was to monitor the new Mayor Boris Johnson and it quickly gained over 3000 members. The noticeboard was extremely busy, with members…

  May 16, 2008
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  Has Friends Reunited left it too late to let you unite?

  I joined Friends Reunited long before the term ‘Social Network’ was being used to describe a wave of sites that now connect millions around the world. In the early days you could not add photos (even a profile picture) without paying a subscription. Email addresses and website addresses were banned,…

  May 11, 2008
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  Is Bebo better than Facebook? Creating a profile network

  As part of my research into social networks I recently joined Bebo, a social network popular in the UK and in particular among younger people. After being an avid Facebook user for some time I wasn’t overwhelmed by the service, however added my profile details and added a link to…

  May 10, 2008
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  YouTubing made easy for politicians

  There are many benefits for politicians using YouTube. Videos are quick and easy to create, many digital still cameras include video recording facility, and with millions of YouTube users of all ages and backgrounds your messages will reach a whole new group of people and possible voters. Benefits for search…

  March 31, 2008
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  Keeping it private on Facebook

  Facebook has improved the level of control you can put on which friends can see what content on your Facebook profile. Previously you had the choice of someone either seeing everything or setting up a limited profile where you could control what aspects of your profile that this second group…

  March 20, 2008