Adding a survey onto a website

Go to  http://www.kissinsights.com and open an account 


Follow the step by step guide that they require and they will create HTML coding that needs to be added to your website:

After your opening  tag to start collecting valuable feedback from your customers:

Once the code has been added to your site, you can manage all of your surveys (e.g. edit existing surveys and create new surveys) right from the KISSinsights Dashboard--there's no need to add any more code to your site.

The KISSinsights code automatically works on both http and https pages and it loads asynchronously so it won't slow down your site.

setting up an auto responder on twitter

You may have noticed that a number of people have set up the facility to "thank you"

• Sign up for a free account at Socialoomph. 
• Add your Twitter account. Select Social Accounts - Add New Accounts - Add Twitter.
• Enter in the details of your Twitter account user name and password.
• Scroll down to the auto welcome check box - select Automatically send a welcome message to new followers.
• In the "Send this message" text box enter the message you want to send.
• Scroll down and select save at the bottom. You are done setting up your Twitter autoresponder.

Setting up feed from blogger to your twitter account

Before you start - have the following ready:

1. Target Twitter account opened 

2.The URL from Blogger for your blog

then go to twitterfeed - http://twitterfeed.com

Set up an account with Twitterfeed (or log in once set up)

Click on "Create New Feed". Enter your Twitter name and password, as well as the URL for your RSS feed. 

Set up a user name for the feed

Twitter will ask your permission to allow the feed - say yes!

Click on "create" and all done.

Now, when you create a Blogger blog post, a tweet will automatically be created and posted to your Twitter account.

Privacy settings on Facebook

Facebook have recently updated their privacy arrangements. All accounts have a new default setting that allows your Facebook data to be shared with non-facebook websites. Facebook have set everyone to an automatic "allow" status.

Not everyone is happy to share their data - myself included.

To change the setting :

Go to Account >> Privacy Settings >> Applications and Websites & then "uncheck" Allow & confirm.


http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=1068

Facebook explained the reasons for making the changes :

"Allowing instant personalisation will give you a richer experience as you browse the web. If you opt out you will have to manually opt-in for these experiences. Please keep in mind that if you opt out, your Friends may still share public Facebook information about you to personalise their experience on these Partner sites unless you block the aplication".

Welcome to the future

I recently attended a Knowledge Transfer Seminar held on the University of Essex Campus at Colchester.

Ranked 9th (out of 121)  for Research Quality the University is seeking to increase their income from Research projects to 30%.

A visit to their Future Lab was amazing. For those of you lucky enough to see Avatar in 3D will not be disappointed with what is coming.

As you drive towards the Campus it is evident that the University have earmarked a significant new site to develop further Knowledge Transfer capacity.

Current average Broadband speed in the UK is 2 Mbit/second - if you are lucky and don't live in a rural area. In Japan, their Fibre network means that they are currently averaging 60 Mbit/second.
95% of UK households to have access to the Internet via broadband <2 Mbit/second by 2012

New applications are being developed that demand significantly faster down and up loading capacity -

• Public Services - we will all have our own personalised MyGov web page linked to all Govt services - from healthcare to tax. Healthcare - 24/7 monitoring; Education - open (virtual) classrooms.
• Home Entertainment - 3D TV 
• Personal Communications - Multi Line Video Calling
• Business Collaboration - cloud computing
• 4G mobile telecoms applications
• All new electronic devices will be addressable via the internet
• voice recognition and semantic technologies will support and control services

Everybody and everything can be connected everywhere always! - Am I the only one thinking that this feels  like Big Brother watching ?

Boys toys?

Probably. Sitting at the back of the room watching a demo of the 3d TV screen I couldn't hep but notice various heads moving to avoid objects coming out of the screen. The 2d back projection unit with 4 projectors each filling a segment of the screen was awesome. Software cleverly hid the edges and pin point, crystal clear images even when standing close up - just where to put it in my lounge as the screen size filled the entire wall of the meeting room?.

Then a trip to the robotics play pen. The robot football team was interesting, but what really impressed me was the development of machines that were being taught to auto correct themselves - able to react to changes in surroundings. Clever stuff.

....and the organisation and facilities at the University were first class.

Further details may be found at :

Institute of Knowledge Transfer www.ikt.org.uk
University of Essex Business & Management Training - www.essex.ac.uk/bmt

Adding" follow me on twitter", linked in etc on outlook email signatures

Help to drive people to your Twitter, Facebook, YouTube account by add a "follow me" graphic on your MS Outlook Signature.

Open up a new MS Word document, and type in the appropriate signature block that you wish to use.

Hover the mouse arrow over the graphic that you wish to use and us the "right click" button on your mouse and click "copy".

Then open up the MS Word document where you have created your new signature. Right click your mouse and click "paste" to put the graphic onto your MS Word document.

Right click the mouse button again and then select "hyperlink".

Within the new dialogue box type in your URL account for twitter etc

Repeat this exercise for each of your other accounts - Facebook, Linkedin etc.

Save the word document - but keep open.

Now open up your MS Outlook account and on the tools drop down menu select "Options"

Open the mail Format tab and then select "signatures" button.

Select "New" and give your new signature a name

Now return to the Word document and copy the new signature that you want to use including the graphics.

Paste the signature block from MS Word into the MS Outlook Create Signature open field and click ok

Save the new signature in MS Outlook and then follow the instructions to use.

Now send a test email to yourself.

Check to ensure that the links all work.