News

New features: Follow an interesting group

So we add new features and tweak the design of our site all the time, but one of the features that went live this week seems big enough to warrant a post. It's now possible for a user to follow a group, publicly or privately, and to get updates in their personal newsletters whenever that group announces a new flock.

We sign people up to follow a group automatically when they attend one of their flock's, but it's easy to stop following a group. And if you do, we'll never sign you up to it again, no matter how many Flocks you attend. You can change your preferences from the group page itself or from the “Groups” tab on your user profile.

This feature isn't to say that a person is committed to a group, or that they will definitely attend future flocks – just to say they are interested in that group and may want to know more. As always, comments on this and other features are welcome!

We're looking for a Marketing Manager for Edinburgh

At Flocklocal, we're looking for a Edinburgh-based marketing manager to join our team. As always, any feedback and offers of help are appreciated, and we urge you to get in touch. However, we're also looking for a very specific role - read more for details.

Screencast of our website's features

I had to make a screencast of Flocklocal's features, as I wont be able to present at the final round of the John Logie Baird competition in person. We thought we may as well share it - Read more to see it.

Contact us in even more ways!

Flocklocal recently won a competition at The Melting Pot ( http://www.themeltingpotedinburgh.org.uk/ ) and is proud to announce we will be based out of their shared office space for the next 6 months! That means you can phone us on (+44) 131 2471416 or write to us at "Flocklocal, The Melting Pot, 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PR".

Logie Baird Awards

Flocklocal has now won through to the National Finals of the John Logie Baird awards in the Social Enterprise Innovator category. We'll be presenting to the judging board on the 25th of this month followed by an awards dinner on the 12th March when they announce the winners.
www.johnlogiebairdawards.co.uk

FirstPort Celebration Day

Flocklocal will at Dynamic Earth on Tuesday 2nd February for a celebration day involving all the social enterprise business's that have received some funding from FirstPort, including ScotlandUnLtd and 4IP. There will be stalls for most of the companies and really looking forward to meeting so many great companies. The keynote speaker is John Swinney MSP, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth.
http://www.dynamicearth.co.uk/events/locations

Glasgow Reshuffle

Flocklocal will be at the Glasgow Reshuffle on the 6th Feb at the Pearce Institute in Govan. Look out for a t-shirt with 'Flocklocal' on it and please say hi. Would love to hear what everyone's up to and how Flocklocal can help you.
details here:
http://www.citystrolls.com/reshuffle10/index.htm

Flocklocal is one week old!

And we're very happy with the reception so far; over 1,200 page hits, events appearing on the site, users signing up and blog posts such as http://www.greenerleith.org/greener-leith-news/2010/1/14/introducing-flock-local.html helping to spread the word.

We'll be celebrating with 1/52th of a cake tonight, and looking forward to the 2nd week. If you can think of anyone who may be interested, pass the site on to them and lets watch this take off!

Welcome to Flocklocal!

After starting at SICamp in July, Flocklocal today opens our website for all to use! Keep an eye on us over the coming weeks as we'll be pushing to make sure as many successful flocks are created as possible. Watch this space ...