Author Archives: Honey Lucas

About Honey Lucas

I'm an Information Officer working in the voluntary and community sector in the UK.

Google communities: a challenge for Facebook groups?

Posted on February 4, 2013

Facebook groups have taken a back seat over the last couple of years, with Pages becoming the first choice for people, charities or companies setting up a space to discuss shared interests. Recently, though, FB has begun to look again … Continue reading →

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Providing emotional support? How can Facebook help?

Posted on January 29, 2013

A while back I wrote a post about how Twitter is being used to provide emotional support. Now a couple of reports are suggesting that Facebook is trying to mine its vast stores of data to try to help those … Continue reading →

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FB graph search: what you need to know

Posted on January 21, 2013

This week Facebook have launched the beta version of their new ‘Graph Search’. Aimed at recreating the social connectivity that brought us all to FB in the first place, the search will help us find like-minded souls amongst our Facebook … Continue reading →

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Keeping track with Facebook’s evolution

Posted on January 15, 2013

Rumours of Facebook’s imminent decline seem to come round quite frequently: just today one report puts UK Facebook usage at an all-time high, whilst another suggests numbers are on the wane. Globally FB continues to mop up new users at an … Continue reading →

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Beyond searching 2: some more savvy searching for Twitter

Posted on January 10, 2013

In my recent post Beyond Searching: 3 ways to find conversations on Twitter I talked about using the Twitter advanced search, and other tools, to locate people who were referencing your work, cause or organisation. Here are some more Twitter searching … Continue reading →

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Three ways to provide emotional support via Twitter

Posted on January 3, 2013

If your organisation offers emotional support to people in distress, then chances are you’ll be using phonelines, email and perhaps texts to receive and answer those calls for help. So what can Twitter add to this mix, and is the … Continue reading →

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