Can I borrow an Umbrella its raining FSA?

Any one got a clue what an FSA Umbrella is? and does it come in different sizes depending on how big your building is?

As served to me on LinkedIn today 30/01/12

Will facebook call you?

How to remove your phone number from facebook:

1 - Click on the top little upside down triangle in the top right hand corner, just next to your name (its blocked out on the screen shot below)

2 - Click on Account Settings

3- Click on mobile on the left hand side

4- Click remove

5 - Confirm you want to remove your phone number

Paying facebook to promote facebook?

Any one else seen any interesting examples of using a facbook feature as part of a competition/brand awareness?

Seems very interesting the "underworld" is paying facebook for the advert, while at the same time "underworld" is actually promoting the new facebook feature, did they get a discount or are they just trying to be different?

And by the way "underworld" I have no interest it what ever "underworld" is so please try re targetting.

Air Miles drive me mad!

Oh the joys of using Air Miles! Why can't they just be simple?

Take this as a fine example:

LHR - LAX with Virgin Atlantic, who I have too many miles!

So I was looking at using some of these up for a summer (outside of school holidays, because I'm not daft, we all know you can't use any type of rewards when you really want to) trip to LA. So keeping my outward and return flight dates fixed here are my options for Virgin Atlantic.

Class/Ticket Type                                                  Cost                         Miles

Economy Full Ticket                                              £563                         0

Economy using miles                                              £329                         47 000

Economy Miles Plus Money                                   £520                         2 000

Premium Economy Full Ticket                                £986                         0

Premium Economy Mile Plus Money                      £956                         7 500

Premium Full Ticket + Miles Return                       £693                         35 000

Drives me mad!!

Though do need to mention how nice the Virgin customer service agent was in helping me find these prices and actually telling me what was the best option.

Oh and while we are at it Virgin please stop sending me the wrong the flying club card.

Rant over!

The Magic of Local Social

So for some time my girlfriend has moaned (that could cost me) about how much time I spend tweeting, checking in etc and I've always said, well its part of my job (which it isn't really but its the best reason I could think of). Though over the last few months she has become hooked, and I'm pretty sure is checkin into places on foursquare as we approach them, just to gain more points than me. Last night showed the power of social in helping local business and hense the title "The Magic of Local Social".

I'm known for enjoying a beer or two, and will never say no to a large slab of red meat so 64th & Social on Clapham High Street is one of my favourite places to eat and drink. Do go and check it out (and check in), the steaks are amazing and the cocktails are a little too easy to knock back.

So last night we went for our usual dose of steak at 64th, and as always I checked in (and stole the mayorship back of the girlfriend!) and tweeted that I was looking forward to my steak. Straight away some one at 64th tweeted back offering me a free cocktail if I came to the bar, result.

What is such a simple act, made me feel rewarded for my loyalty to the bar, and probably cost next to nothing to do. Not to mention the amount of people I've told today, and the amount of tweets I tweeted in my cocktail state last night. I even got a 64th Black Card last night (drink discounts!) which I'm pretty sure will get heavily used in the near future.

But when will 64th create a foursquare special for me? Just incase they read this, heres a hint:

• Foursquare

Claiming your venue or foursquare

Create a special for your foursquare users

• Facebook

 Creating a deal with facebook places

• Google Places

Or if your looking for more traffic from search, try using Google Places

All this talk of steak has made me hungry... see you next week 64th!

Managing your Facebook Timeline Quickly

So you now have Timeline and your starting to realize what a mammoth task it is to tidy up that profile or yours. Deleting and removing those drunken posts/pictures from your uni days.

I've had timeline since it was announced and have just put off sorting my timeline out as I just knew until every one could see it I wasn't that bothered about my old posts.

Though come this week facebook will start rolling it out to everyone, giving you a full week to start sorting your timeline before your friends can start stalking your past, and we all know which friends will be spending hours looking at your past, stalkers!

If you haven't got timeline yet, visit https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline and scroll to the bottom and activate timeline.

You will see your timeline when your visit your own profile, here is mine as an example:



You can then start scrolling down and seeing all your history, and no doubt will find stuff you don't want to see anymore.

So for example I don't want this post to be shown on my timeline any more:



You can then select: hide, delete or remove



Now if you only have one or two posts, or only joined facebook this week then you wont have too much to worry about. Though most likely you will have alot of stuff you need to hide or delete, for example all posts from the odd friend you knew at university who you don't want to me aasociated with any more, hense the unfriend the day you graduated.

So here is what I suggest (and the major reason of this post).

How to quickly manage your timeline.

Just below your Cover Photo you will see a button called "activity log"



Then you can see an overview of every year in the past



Select a year you want to look at. Make sure you just click on the year and not a month.

Now its worth making sure you just see what your interested in removing only. For this example I'm using posts by others on my timeline (wall)



Now you can see a list of all posts that have been posted on my timeline (wall) by others. Next to each post you will see a small circle. Clicking on this circle will prompt you will all the options on this post, such as hide, delete etc.



Unfortunately you can hide or delete every post from an individual but this is by far the quickest way to tidy up your timeline. Remember this is an example for posts by others on your timeline so make sure you check photos and your statuses to make sure those drunken pictures you don't want to be seen aren't seen!

Hope that helps

Data Visualization With A Twist

ome lovely examples of how data can be visulised beyond the old pie chart:

Wefeelfine: http://www.wefeelfine.org/index.html

Visual thesaurus: http://www.visualthesaurus.com

Orange Cinema series:http://www.orangecinemaseries.fr/evenement/universeries/en/#

Look to the moon: http://looktothemoon.com/#/cloud_of_words/

I wish: http://twistori.com/#i_wish

Follower distribution map: http://twitarium.com/_nakamura/

Lullaland: http://www.lullaland.net/

Any one got any other examples at all? Please share