Privacy and the use of images

When peope post to social media platforms they sign up to the platform’s terms and conditions, which in our own experience are not always read very thoroughly – if at all. At OurLocality we value and encourage family friendly contributions…

What are the implications of using a jetpack form on my website?

Using a Jetpack form on your OurLocality website is a convenient way to add a contact or feedback form without needing additional plugins. Jetpack is already integrated into the OurLocality platform but you may need to activate it and link…

Perfect Your Typing: Mini Guide -Spell Check & Multi-Language Support in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari

Enabling Spell Check and Alternative Languages in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari Spelling and language support on your browser can improve typing accuracy and allow quick help with accents and alternative languages. Here’s how to activate these tools in Chrome, Firefox,…

Delete X

Shortly after Twitter became X we decided it was time to pull our automated feeds. After all we’d observed declining value and efficacy (minimal engagement really) and had to pay for the pleasure of those automations. Having gone through burning…

Website Launch Checklist

You’ve spent hours creating your website and the page/s you are creating are looking as close to what you wanted … but your friends say they cannot find it on Google. So what is going on? In my experience it…

There is no Data Protection demonstrable whatsoever on any unpaid Google Docs and Drive

This is a bold and exaggerated assertion, but since the tool is widely used by many voluntary organisations who don’t want the overhead of managing their own Workspace it deserves a little bit of attention. Open AI says Google Drive…