[ANSTHRLD] Round Table Re-cap

[Kathleen O'Brien]

FYI for folks here.  I don't have an FB account (multiple reasons).  So, 
if folks here want to send me questions directly or post them to this 
list, I'll be glad to help out with research, etc., but I won't see 
stuff posted on FB.

Mari


On 7/15/2013 9:42 PM, Bob Wade wrote:
> Given the announcement I was in the process of biting the bullet and opening an Account.  I spent 1/2 hour reading the policy and stopped -- All settings are set to public whenever the policy is amended.  Yes, you can reset them to 'Private', but the barn door is already open by the time you start to do so.
>
> As much as I'd like to help others with heraldic submissions that way, I'm going to opt out.
>
> Tostig
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 7/15/13, Doug Bell<magnus77840 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>   Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Round Table Re-cap
>   To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc."<heralds at lists.ansteorra.org>
>   Date: Monday, July 15, 2013, 7:28 AM
>
>
>   Some observations.
>
>
>   Be very careful with Facebook. That
>   company has little respect for the privacy of submitters or
>   the SCA's
>   intellectual property. It is easy to run into trouble with
>   the SCA
>   Social media policy with Facebook pages.
>   http://www.sca.org/docs/pdf/SCASocialMediaPolicy.pdf
>   The Society's Facebook page is under
>   close management. It's the other sites used by kingdom and
>   local
>   groups that are of concern.
>
>   Facebook's business model is to spy on you to
>   gather a personal profile to deliver custom ads to you. The
>   software
>   is programmed to collect as much data on you as possible and
>   share it
>   in any way it can come up with. An open Facebook logon will
>   read your
>   posts, read any email you look at on other sites, monitor
>   your web
>   page visits, and search engine use (even on secure search
>   sites that
>   are not owned by Facebook). Face recognition software is
>   used to
>   analyze any images you post. This is all used to create
>   personalized
>   stalker ads that follow you around the web. This is why
>   Facebook is
>   regularly sued and fined by countries in the European Union
>   for
>   violations of their privacy laws. Google, Gmail, Utube, and
>   Amazon do
>   the same thing but that's another topic.
>
>
>   How to deal with it?
>   Log in to these sites, conduct your
>   business and log out as soon as finished.
>
>   Regularly empty cookies and
>   browsing history on your browser.
>
>   Given the issues, some folks refuse to use Facebook. Their
>   concerns are understandable and should be honored.
>
>
>   An SCA heraldry Facebook page will
>   generate stalker ads for bucket shop heraldry web sites that
>   sell
>   fake coats of arms and shady genealogy services.
>   Those are easy
>   enough to ignore.
>
>   The main problem is privacy. Facebook's
>   privacy software is rewritten about every 6 months. You can
>   have all
>   your data set for private viewing but when the new software
>   comes in
>   everything gets reset to public viewing. Facebook software
>   WANTS to
>   share your data with as many folks as possible. It may not
>   be a good
>   idea to have the private discussions of your "SCA family"
>   or a private heraldic consult shared with everyone from your
>   employer
>   and non-SCA friends to your great aunt Matilda.
>
>   Previous consulting has used private
>   email or mailing lists on SCA owned web sites and servers.
>
>   Those we
>   can control to some extent but social media may not be that
>   easy to
>   keep under control.
>
>
>   We used to staple everything to keep
>   attached documents from getting lost. Now that all
>   submissions are
>   scanned that would cause trouble. I would recommend that you
>   number
>   the pages of any attached documentation to keep it in order
>   in case
>   the file falls off a table and scatters (cats love to do
>   this to
>   heraldry materials). Stray staples can cause similar damage
>   to
>   officers and scanners as the claws of the above mentioned
>   cats. If you want to use paper clips go for the plastic
>   coated ones. Metal paper clips can cause similar damage as
>   the above mentioned cats.
>
>
>
>   Sorry to see the Gazette go away but
>   its function is long past and outdated.
>
>
>   The Education Arm of the College of
>   Heralds is like I-45 at Corsicana, it's always under
>   restructuring
>   and construction.
>
>
>   There are sources on name and armory
>   research for storage on flash drives at St. Gabriel's
>   reports and
>   articles, Laurel's site at the SCA web site, online rolls of
>   arms,
>   Google books, and Internet Archive (archive.org). The last
>   two have
>   some obscure old and rare books for medieval research as
>   well as items like Bardsley.
>
>   best regards
>   Magnus
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