I thought members might be interested to know of an interesting issue which arose last weekend in Derby. In this case it was totally innocent, but is a good example of how you could lose control of the initiative or lose a webname you'd really like to use yourself.
Last weekend a Facebook page was created by an enthusiast, giving all the right links to our peregrine webcameras and blog. It looked really good and quite official, until you spotted the creator's email address. Clearly not a corporate one! Fearing I might get the blame for creating this myself (against all current practices) I communicated not only with our webteam and Head of Communications, but also contacted the page creator directly to explain the slightly embarassing position I was in. This had the desired result - appreciating my concenrs the Facebook user changed the page name to being a "supporters' group" of the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project and my colleagues can see that we're not gratuitously going against the current rules on the use of Web 2 services. A good result all round, I think. And even if we aren;t goig to use some social network sites at present, we are starting to think what usernames on what sites we'd like to have for future use - and perhaps reserving them now for when it is approriate to utilise them.

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