[ANSTHRLD] Round Table Re-cap

[Bob Wade]

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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