Digital Accessibility: Are We Doing Enough?

Digital Accessibility: Are We Doing Enough?

Imagine for a moment, you’re stuck at home, ill, and when you turn on your computer, hoping to find out what’s going on in the world, you find the mouse has broken. You decide to browse online anyway but find that your once favourite websites don’t work properly now...
On creativity ..

On creativity ..

When my eldest daughter hit the glorious long summer holiday where she had taken her GCSEs and she needed to decide her A-Levels, it was really important to her 16yo self to work out whether she was an Artist or a Scientist. She spent the whole summer holiday...
Getting to Better Business

Getting to Better Business

When SocialOptic was founded, we thought as much about HOW we would do business as WHAT business we would do. While our products and business model have evolved in the years that have followed, the kind of business we want to be has not changed. To us it is...

Business Continuity Statement

In short, whilst these are deeply challenging times, not much has changed operationally for SocialOptic in the last few weeks. SocialOptic has been a ‘remote first’ company since it was founded, over 10 years ago. All of our team and associates are home-based and have...
Rediscovering the Joy of Work

Rediscovering the Joy of Work

Earlier this month I caught up with Bruce Daisley, VP EMEA, Twitter, ahead of the launch of his new book “The Joy of Work”, which is already a No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Bruce is well known, not only for his role at Twitter, but also for the...
SocialOptic on G-Cloud 10

SocialOptic on G-Cloud 10

SocialOptic are pleased to announce that we have again been approved as a government supplier on the G-Cloud platform. Our solutions have been approved on the framework throughout the last four iterations and have grown our customer base with each new wave. For us,...
GDPR – Final First Steps

GDPR – Final First Steps

It is the final count down to GDPR (our GDPR countdown clock feels like it moves faster each day). As the ICO’s Elizabeth Denham, pointed out at the ICO Data Protection Practitioners Conference last month, there are just a few weeks until the GDPR comes into...
Small Businesses Data Protection and GDPR

Small Businesses Data Protection and GDPR

First the good news, if you are a small business in the UK. The ICO have set up a new GDPR hotline, which is a telephone advice service for businesses with less than 250 people to help them with the new data protection laws. It goes live on the 1st November and will...
GDPR in the UK – The Data Protection Bill

GDPR in the UK – The Data Protection Bill

There has been significant activity around on GDPR in the UK this month: The Data Protection Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords, and is now heading to the committee stage. The bill provides for the UK’s implementation of GDPR, with some special...
Measuring Employee Engagement

Measuring Employee Engagement

Get right to the bottom of measuring employee engagement. There are whole books devoted to it, but the basics are quick to grasp. The October edition of Voice Magazine, from the IoIC, has an extensive article titled “All in good measure” on the topic. It...