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However you define your community, it’s essential that real people are playing an active part and moving things forward. Meeting people face-to-face remains a core activity in maintaining a sustainable community.  Shaking someone’s hand and giving them a card or leaflet yields results in terms of getting them to come along to your next event […]

Tomorrow is promised to no one Who knows what will happen tomorrow and what if it were the worst? If you’re reading this you’ll probably have at least one e-mail account and probably a social media account or few.  The need to plan for when you are no longer around becomes more and more of an

As with all good things, the internet has a down side. Along with the convenience of access to information, shopping from your armchair, entertainment on demand, etc., there are horror stories going around about identity theft, data breaches, hacking and the rest. Internet users are, understandably, wary. Google, the world’s preferred search engine, has brought

Free workshop to be held on 17 and 18 July at the Parkside Building, Birmingham City University.  This is the first workshop for the newly established Trend Academy: the theme is colour. Understanding and using colour effectively a vital element of many market sectors. Whether it is developing your brand online, attracting customers to your

I’m using the excellent Bootstrap Tour on a web application.  Whilst not overly complex, I was mindful that some of those who would be using the application I was developing were not as internet savvy as others.  So the Bootstrap Tour seemed the ideal tool to use.  It allows me to give users the option to

Thousands of Facebook page administrators have been repeatedly presented with the following notice each time they try to verify their pages. Facebook claim that “Verified Pages appear higher in search results.” So it would seem an important thing for page administrators to do but the system of verification is broken. What do they mean by

I had set up a custom post type on a recent project and added meta boxes to the post and post-new pages.  I then wanted to have the post meta to be editable through Quick Edit and Bulk Edit.  Knowing that someone, somewhere will have come up with a solution, I was pleased to find that Rachel