[ANSTHRLD] Round Table Re-cap
Bob Wade
logiosophia at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 15 19:42:18 PDT 2013
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
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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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