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Cyber snooping by employers
The internet has led to an increasing clash between personal and professional lives. Once upon a time it was only your CV or application that counted when trying to win a job interview, but one new...
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Power of the Password
The recent News of the World phone hacking scandal illustrated how easy it can be to access poorly protected information. The investigators who hacked into the phones were not IT geniuses; they just...
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How much Klout do you have?
One website that has been getting quite a bit of press coverage recently is Klout. This is a new service that attempts to measure online influence by monitoring social networking traffic. It allocates...
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Predictions for 2012
Changes in technology and their impact on the world have been relentless over the last few years, and 2012 doesn’t look to be any different. Below is a list of predictions and trends for 2012. Social...
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Now YaCy it!
Google dominates the search market. Bing has made an impression and Yahoo still has a loyal following, but Google is king, especially in the West. However, a new search engine has just been launched,...
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Can you Google ‘privacy’ please?
There has been a lot of coverage recently regarding Google’s new privacy policy. The company will now have access to more data regarding the searches individuals make; information they will use to...
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The ‘Girls Around Me’ app
The recent furore over the ‘Girls Around Me’ smartphone app illustrates the increasing ease with which our movements can be tracked. The app was developed by Russian developer i-free and enabled...
View ArticleCheck out the new Infobo website
It’s been a time of change recently. I’ve been redeveloping the Infobo website and I’ll be moving into a new office next week. Let me know what you think of the new site. I’m still tinkering with it...
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Search Engine Optimisation & trade unions
I’ve been doing a lot of work on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) recently. It’s a skill that is growing in demand as more and more organisations realise how much traffic they can generate through...
View ArticleThe trade union website metrics league table
There was a lot of interest in my report about trade unions and search engine optimisation. I’ve been asked about the scoring metrics I used to estimate how well a website would rank in search engine...
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Which trade unions can you join online?
Back in 2000 I was keen to push back boundaries in the way unions used IT. I wanted to create the first online joining system for a trade union. After finishing at university I started working for a...
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The EU Cookie Monster
You may have noticed over the past few months that some websites you’ve visited have asked for your permission to use ‘cookies’. Not to be confused with the American biscuit, a cookie is a small text...
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10 of the best examples of union branch websites
I’ve managed and developed a number of union websites over the years. However, a project I’ve recently completed presented a completely different type of challenge – building a website for a union...
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What are the most popular union hashtags?
People who use Twitter will be very familiar with hashtags. A Twitter hashtag ties the conversations of different users into one stream, which you can then find by searching for the hashtag in Twitter....
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Which Unions are the most influential in social media?
Following on from the league table of trade union websites I produced earlier this year, I thought I’d look at who the most influential trade unions are in social media. It’s difficult to measure...
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2013 – the year of the tablet?
This year is going to be the year of the tablet. Some are predicting that tablets will outsell laptops and become the most used type of portable computer. This anticipated growth is faster than anyone...
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Mobile websites vs responsive design
The increase in the popularity of tablets and smartphones means that a growing proportion of website visitors are using these devices rather than traditional desktops or laptops. However, most websites...
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Apprenticeship jobs & guide app
I’ve recently been working with Prospect and Unionlearn to develop an app aimed at people doing or considering doing an apprenticeship. It’s just been officially launched to coincide with National...
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Union apps
With a large increase in the number of people using mobile computer devices like smartphones and tablets, unions are increasingly looking at the opportunities presented by developing their own apps....
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Got your web in the Cloud?
Cloud computing is a bit of a buzzword at the moment. Simply put, the ‘cloud’ refers to a service delivered across multiple machines on the internet rather than just the one server. Long seen as a...
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