People First -Total Solutions

Our emails will be shut down this week folks. Please contact us here or via Martin J Cowling Facebook. Thank you for your support.

People First -Total Solutions will cease to function as a company in April, 2013. Our Consultants will continue to offer training and consulting independently:

Australia/NZ: Tara Cantwell,Hennie Watts, Andy Fryar and Meg Webb.
UK/Europe/Middle East: Rob Jackson
USA/Canada\/South America: Rick Lynch and Erin Barnhart
Martin J Cowling is concluding engagements. He is available for some limited training and consulting work from time to time outside Australia.

His DVDs are available from http://www.energizeinc.com/store/5-255-G-1

Top Tips for Recruiting Volunteers (DVD) All e-books sold through the Energize Bookstore are now open to commenting and highlighting in Adobe Reader 6 or later. Try it out!

Our Australian 1300 number will no longer be operating from March 1st. Please email us at [email protected]

Be warned!! Watch your Social Media carefully http://www.theage.com.au/business/how-rude-just-jeans-facebook-hoax-prompts-warning-to-retailers-20130108-2ceaw.html?fb_action_ids=10151439890559009%2C10151439890129009&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151439890559009%22%3A514203001958045%2C%2210151439890129009%22%3A284452695010208%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151439890559009%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%2C%2210151439890129009%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

'How rude!!': Just Jeans Facebook hoax prompts warning to retailers Retailers have again been warned about the importance of keeping a close eye on their social media presence after someone masquerading as an official Just Jeans spokesperson confused and offended customers on the store's page.

What are your goals for 2013? Take the first moves to success!!

Who will be our 700th "liker'?

Happy New Year to all of our friends, supporters and clients

As of January 16, 2013, our CEO Martin J Cowling am the Assistant Secretary in the Social Inclusion Unit and Office for the Not-for-Profit Sector in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet based in Canberra, Australia.

This is a great honour for him. He will step down from People First to focus on this new role.

The People First team will continue to roll out our great training and we have some exciting new services coming in 2013.

Follow Martin on Twitter (martinjcowling)or his Facebook to stay up-to-date on what Martin is doing in his new role. appropriate.

This year's UK Charity Online Index, an annual report that analyses the sector’s use of social media found the top five users of Social Media were:

1. Battersea Dogs & Cats Home (currently 178 000 likes on https://www.facebook.com/Battersea

2. RSPCA https://www.facebook.com/RSPCA

3. RNLI (https://www.facebook.com/rnli) - this is one of their Facebook photos...great action shot

4. St John Ambulance

5. NSPCC - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

The Charity Online Index (http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/bulletin/third_sector_daily_bulletin/article/1164634/battersea-dogs-cats-home-made-best-use-social-media-2012-report-finds/?DCMP=EMC-CONThirdSectorDaily) uses data from Google, Brandwatch and Experian Hitwise to analyse how well charities engaged with social media between 24 August and 20 September.

The report says that animal charities attracted almost twice as many likes on Facebook as the average for all other charities