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#frothers Unite!! Time for change.

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northernmonkey · 02/12/2011 10:15

Hello to all you #frothers
Thought I'd take the liberty of starting us a nice new thread as the other is getting rather full. :)

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MmeLindor. · 03/12/2011 23:58

No, Font. It is great.

Wish I could do cool stuff like that. Do you use a particular programme?

CardyMow · 04/12/2011 00:00

Garlic - I give up on being all tech-whizzy. I'm tired. Grin. All this frothing is very wearing. Can I just C&P my word doc for you to put on the blog (pretty please with cherries on top).

MmeLindor. · 04/12/2011 00:00

Garlic
Do let me know if there is anything you need done. Am not great with code stuff (although I learned loads when blog was hacked and when I changed webhost recently) but am ok at basic stuff.

CardyMow · 04/12/2011 00:01

If I PM it to you, I mean?

I'm making no sense now, and my bed is calling me - too many late nights and early mornings this week!

FontSnob · 04/12/2011 00:04

Kate, can you download these from keep and share?

www.keepandshare.com/doc/3324934/square-logo-264k?da=y

Square logo with added bits

FontSnob · 04/12/2011 00:05

Mme, adobe illustrator. Thanks everyone, tis always terrifying to share work! Smile

KateMiddIeton · 04/12/2011 00:06

Garlic thank you so much. You have done a wonderful, wonderful job. Can I ask you a favour? Could you get new blog posts to automatically feed through to the Facebook page please? (they'll auto feed to Twitter from there).

I like that the blog is clean with clear posts that can be read and the option to be commented, that Facebook is more interactive and Twitter is organic and busy. Hopefully something for everyone.

Now we have some infrastructure and people we need to finalise The Plan.

Can we have suggestions tomorrow and Monday and then if necessary i'll put together a survey to vote on anything contentious or where we should check grass roots support is there (it may not be necessary to survey).

Can I just say you are all amazing Smile

garlicnutter · 04/12/2011 00:08

Blogger usually interprets links correctly. There's also a linky icon in the editor, if you want to use that.

Hunty - Go to the homepage, then hover at the very top-right of the page. There's a couple of invisible links there, which will let you either sign in or 'Design'. Click whichever one it gives you.

When you are signed in, there are small tool icons around the page - mostly on the right - that you can use to get into admin, as well.

As soon as you're in admin, there's a Big Orange Pencil to click for writing a new post :)

Haven't read this, but like the title Wink: bloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/

CardyMow · 04/12/2011 00:11

I can get on the page, I can click 'sign in', I can get into the bit where it comes up with the 'Blogger' page...but I can't seem to work out how to actually follow the frothers blog.

garlicnutter · 04/12/2011 00:11

Yep, Kate, will sort out the back-feeds tomorrow or Monday. Thanks for the reminder.

KateMiddIeton · 04/12/2011 00:12

I'm sure I can download. I've viewed but on iPhone so not great access. I have a log in if you want to know who's using and downloading logo etc.

With the square logo the content needs to be in the middle-ish with a good indent from the edges because twitter chops things when uploading the avatar. As I found out by previously butchering perfectly good images Grin

garlicnutter · 04/12/2011 00:15

Heh, Hunty, you have the opposite problem to most people's Grin

Just click on any old link to toomanycuts.blogspot.com to read it. When you're editing a post, there's links to Preview and View Blog at the top of your page.

Depending on how you like to follow, use the gadgets on the right to "follow" as a feed or something.

Does that help? Confused

FontSnob · 04/12/2011 00:19

Okay cool, will sort that tomorrow, off to bed now, if it is easier for you then I can email them to you. Night all.

FontSnob · 04/12/2011 00:25

www.keepandshare.com/doc/3324961/frothers-square-central-logo-257k?da=y

Square central logo for avitar.

Okay, now i'm going to bed!!

KateMiddIeton · 04/12/2011 00:27

Looks brilliant! Thank you!

CardyMow · 04/12/2011 00:43

Think I've got somewhere...but when I tried to post it, I get this message:

Your HTML cannot be accepted: Closing tag has no matching opening tag: STRONG

WTF?!

Now I am completely lost and Confused. What is HTML? What is a closing tag? What is an opening tag?

MmeLindor. · 04/12/2011 08:25

We could use the square image as a badge for our individual blogs, linking back to TMCs, couldn't we?

And links everywhere - so from TMC to our blogs and viceversa - on blog roll and in one or two posts.

FontSnob · 04/12/2011 08:56

I was thinking, could we get guest bloggers to write articles for us. For eg there is a tweet that links to a blogger with chrones (sp?) disease, who's blog is v good. If she could write a piece for us and link to us from her blog then we can start to link to a wider community.

Was thinking we could get a blog list going as well.

FontSnob · 04/12/2011 08:58

Also thinking that we need to start to collate all of these really good links to articles that people are posting/tweeting. Kind of providing a one stop froth shop to highlight all the shit in one place.

CardyMow · 04/12/2011 09:11

Thanks to frothingangry, who posted that on the blog for me. I really need to stop being so crap with computers! Will try to be better next time.

I'm going to start trying to write one on Workfare, will be ready to go up at some point next week.

FontSnob · 04/12/2011 09:33

Great post Hunty. Fucking dreadful :( that it's happening though.

FontSnob · 04/12/2011 09:34

also thinking we could do with a page/list of links to petitions.

Miaowww · 04/12/2011 11:51

Just checking in. I am so impressed by everyone's hard work. Unfortunately real life and vomiting children have been keeping me from my laptop but I will do what I can. I have managed to set up Gmail and twitter accounts, access the blog and like the FB page. Will now attempt to follow on Twitter (very scary but has to be done), providing nobody screams 'MUUUMMMMMM!!!!!!' in the next five minutes.

Also frothing mad about Wilshaw and his comments - a friend of a friend used to work for him and reckons he is a right C You Next Tuesday in real life too.

FuckYouGideon · 04/12/2011 12:35

Checking in and marking my place. I have had family over until late last night so been kept away from the PC. Toddler DS is sleeping and DH is cooking a roast now so I have caught up.

I have PMed garlic my new gmail account. I have some stuff to write on Localism Bill, etc but I want to let all the CSA stuff run for a bit as its far more important.

LittleDonkeyhadaMadHairDay · 04/12/2011 13:03

Just read your blog post HuntyCat - it's great, well done. I just get so sad that this is happening, and nothing seems to be being done for those caught in this trap. As well as leaving people destitute, it contributes to that whole 'benefit scrounger' view of disabled people being somehow worth less than others. Too ill to work but (according to ATOS) not ill enough to claim ESA? Then of course by default they're pretenders, dossers trying to get on the sick.

It's shocking and sickening :(

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