One addition to the new LinkedIn profiles is the ability to add Volunteer experience to your profile.

This is a really great feature for both an individual to show support to their chosen organisation and to raise awareness of volunteering in general.

To add one to your profile select: Profile / Edit Profile from the main menu and you’ll find volunteering & causes on the right hand side.

Click this heading to add one to your profile.

You’ll then see the new section to fill out, as shown below. To add more than one, click the + Add button in the top right. You can also click and drag the up & down arrow to choose where this section sits on your profile.

Important note: to link this volunteering opportunity to the charity correctly, you’ll need to type it into the organisation field and then select the organisation from the list – as shown below.

If you just type the name in, there will be no link to the organisations LinkedIn page shown on your profile.

Click Save once you’ve finished or the + Add in the top right to add another.

Once this section is added to your profile, it’ll display the company logo next to it and when someone views your profile they can easily see the organisation you volunteer for.

 

Any questions, leave me a comment below.

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Yesterday’s blog post went kind of crazy, and with interest from some journalists, I wanted to be really sure that my numbers were 100% accurate including all the possible data I could find.

Important note: both posts relate to casualty rate, which are accidents and injuries not fatalities.

Using 2004-2011 data Bournemouth is actually second to Portsmouth

Using 2005-2010 data Bournemouth is number one

…I leave it up to you if that makes the story any less important…

 

Method used:

1) Find as many years of raw data as I could to supplement the 2011 numbers I found yesterday, ignoring the council figures shown in the diagram

2) Sort all areas by pedal cycle casualty rates per 100,000

3) Score each area as per their position from 1 to 10, with anything greater scoring 10

4) Combine those scores to give a ranking

Here is the revised league of shame, using the full 2004-2011 data set:

1. Portsmouth
2. Bournemouth
3. Kingston upon Hul
4. York
5. Peterborough
6. Bristol
7. Brighton & Hove
8. Manchester
9. Poole
10. Reading

NOTE:

I found two inaccuracies in the Bournemouth Council table, compared to the National Statistics data: In 2004 Bournemouth ranked 4th not 7th and in 2010 4th not 5th.

Data sets:

If you really want the raw data sets to do your own number crunching:

All raw data exports (zip)

Casualty rates per 100,000 raw data (xls)

Final crunched version of the numbers (xls)

Thanks to the National Archives and gov.uk

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“…Bournemouth has the highest death rate of cyclists outside of London…”

Ummm… say, what?? 

Did I hear that right? 

Yes, apparently I did.

You see, last week I was invited to attend the Bournemouth Cycle Forum and this little point had casually been dropped into the conversation during the evening.

Now, I was quite surprised to hear this.

Important note: both posts relate to casualty rate, which are accidents and injuries not fatalities.

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Ran another failure swapshop at Bar Camp Bournemouth 5 – some INCREDIBLE, hilarious, worrying stories! You know the format and rules, so here are the lessons learned:

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The video from my recent talk at the Salesforce Social Success #micup is on the tube of you, so I thought I’d share it with y’all right here.

It was based on my post at the start of the year:

“You’ve been Facebook culled, don’t be upset” and what I’m calling: social network normalisation.

Do check out the other excellent speaker videos, they’re all 5 min talks on Social Media predictions for 2013.

http://youtu.be/EQ9xkvirt6U

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Yesterday was a great day at Bar Camp non-profits; as the name suggests a barcamp format unconference with a charity (or non profit) focus.

Less techy than other bar camps I’d been too, but equally brilliant in terms of the things I learned, conversations I had and people (new and old) I met.

If you’ve never been to one, GO.

If you think there isn’t one relevant to you, set one up.

The unconference format works for any area of interest and I always learn more than at a “normal” conference.

I ran a failure swapshop towards the end of the day, a usual slow start where people needed some encouragement but then it really got going.

For those not familiar with the failure swapshop it follows a very simple format:

1. “Hi my name is ____ and I failed”
2. >> EVERYONE CHEERS <<
3. Explain your failure
4. Share the lessons learned

There are only 2 rules:

1. We’re all friends
2. Share only the lessons learned

The aim of the session is to encourage people to discuss their failures in a safe and supportive way, sharing only the lessons learned with those outside the room.

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Am I the only person on the planet who understands the difference between users and usage?

There is a LOT of chatter at the moment around Google+ “now being the number 2 social network”…

SPOILER ALERT <– it’s not.

“Infographics” (I don’t class this as such personally, but that’s for another day…) like this one:

…and there are a multitude of “OMG G+ is the new number 2, go go go!” posts, all referencing one survey.

There’s quite a few things that trouble me about this:

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