Hi all, Some of you have already heard that I have joined mySociety as Marketing and Communications Manager. I am a very recent (and delighted) hire, and have been taken on to ensure that mySoc's work becomes much better known by the man in the street. I guess I'm fairly representative of that man (er, despite being female): I'd certainly heard of the major MySoc projects before I joined, but had no idea of the depth and variety of both projects and knowledge encompassed here. The more I learn, the more impressed I am, so I'm hoping to convey some of the all-round mySoc goodness to the rest of the world.
I'll be dealing with launches of major projects and a day-to-day drip feed of small but newsworthy facts, via social media, press releases and events. I'll also be staying in close contact with you guys, making sure that everyone knows about new features as they appear. And on that note, here is the main point of this mail. ****** Shiny new feature ****** mySoc has an ambitious plan to add new features to all core sites this year, and the first such went live on Friday. As you'll see from the big yellow bar on TheyWorkForYou.com, the site now incorporates upcoming parliamentary business. This is a big step for TWFY, meaning that not only do we include a nice browsable calendar on site <http://www.theyworkforyou.com/calendar/>but we also allow users to sign up for email alerts. We're hoping that this will be of massive benefit to all sorts of people: we all have subjects of interest that we'd welcome alerts on, but there are plenty of other bodies who may well benefit. Charities, interest groups and campaigners will be able to know in advance, and plan accordingly, when topics that matter to them are to be debated; journalists can keep an eye on stories that might otherwise have fizzled out; even those otherwise quite uninterested in parliamentary goings-on can subscribe to, say, the name of their town or city to get very localised alerts. Do feel free to sign up <http://www.theyworkforyou.com/calendar/> and also to come back to me with any other ideas for usage we might not have anticipated yet, because my job will be to feed all this to the press and the public consciousness. Matthew and Duncan are the devs behind this particular project - well done both - and you can read Matthew's account on the blog at http://www.mysociety.org/2011/05/13/upcoming-theyworkforyou/. Next up, user accounts and pages on FixMyStreet. Watch this space. Cheers all, -- Myf Nixon Marketing and Communications Manager mySociety -- Myf Nixon Marketing and Communications Manager mySociety
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