Project Details:

Health Psychology Management Organisation Services (HP-MOS) needed to get set up on social networking sites to increase the organisation's online presence in order to attract users in supporting the work that they do. Rosstamicah worked with HP-MOS to get a social presence established on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.

About HP-MOS:

HP-MOS is a UK-based charity that is aimed at identifying and supporting disadvantaged "hard-to-reach" adults, children and young people with long term mental and physical health conditions within different community settings.

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Reminding yourself that you love what you do is an important part of keeping your mind and your work fresh. As creative professionals, it’s easy to get caught up in the business end of things and not actually spending much time doing anything for ourselves. If you are freelancing or working at an agency, it’s important to have something in your pipeline that’s done just for the fun of it.

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The Joomla CMS is a free, open-source content management system used by millions of designers, developers, and web administrators worldwide. The system currently has almost 5,000 extensions available in it's Extensions Directory (http://extensions.joomla.org/), many of which are released under the GPL (non-commercial, also known as free) license. While a Joomla core install has many options and parameters available out of the box; functionality such as site backups, advanced optimization tools for search engines, and file/content editors aren't included. Working with Joomla for the past two years, I've created this list of five extensions that are essential for almost every Joomla website.

1. Akeeba Backup (formerly JoomlaPack)

One of the most important extensions for any website is a backup system. Akeeba Backup (formerly known as JoomlaPack) provides an easy to use solution to backup your Joomla website. The component creates a full installable backup of a Joomla site, as well as offering options to backup just the mysql database, files, and directory exclusion. The developers also created a custom file format (.jpa for Joomla Pack Archive) to increase compression and backup speed. The .jpa format allows easy installs using the Kickstart system, as well as options to fine tune backup details and backup scheduling. AkeebaBackup is a free (non-commercial) extension.

E-mail signatures have important information that allow your contacts to get in touch with you. Webmail services such as Gmail and Yahoo have always offered email signature features, but they have had limited features such as not allowing a clickable link to your website or to include your company logo. This has been one of the few limitations of webmail services, until now.

With so much business and networking being done solely online today, many have taken the opportunity to post their resumes on websites that offer this service.  Rather than e-mail a Word .doc to a potential employer, sending a link to your online hosted resume page is an acceptable alternative.

There are quite a few ways to use the web to create or host your resume/CV, the most well known of course being LinkedIn. While LinkedIn offers an online hosted resume in combination with a social networking experience, the display of LinkedIn profile pages isn't the best looking out there, and you need to be a member to login and see someone's "full profile," which may contain important information.  LinkedIn also offers a .pdf export of your resume/cv, but this is mainly plain text and not so pleasing to the eye.

I've been asking a lot of people recently how they feel about ads on social networking sites such as Facebook, specifically if they've ever clicked on one.  Still can't find one person that's said yes.

Someone mentioned that we are so used to seeing ads in our daily lives, that we have grown accustomed to them and almost completely ignore them when online.  Even when the user is forced to interact with the ad, it makes us dislike them even more.  I completely agree with that and still wonder how sites such as Facebook and Twitter are going to monetize off of a free service that just works.

That said, I happened to actually notice an ad on Facebook tonight. Not because it peaked my interest or a catchy graphic caught my attention, there was a simple z-index issue that allowed a flash ad to show above the Online Friends pop-out window.  That rarely happens on large social networking websites, yet: