woot! On 16 May 2011, at 16:31, Myfanwy Nixon wrote:
> 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 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 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 > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/stefan%40whitelabel.org -- /* Stefan Magdalinski +27 82 0431230 (SA) +254 710 103500 (KE) +234 816 5706119 (NG) Where am I?: http://is.gd/uu4RUc smagdali (IM/twitter/flickr/dopplr/skype/etc) */
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