Well, it's the end of another year and this one certainly seems to have flown by!
Everyone here at EduGeek would like to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year and thank you all for your continued support.
So, before you all disappear to enjoy (in no particular order), vast quantities of food, chocolate, beer/wine/spirits, gadgets, games and, oh yes! families, let us here at Edugeek pass on our best wishes to our members, sponsors and those companies who help us out in the background and never ask for any thanks.​ ...

On Thursday the 10th of November we became aware of a server breach and because of that as a precaution we have reset everyones passwords (to get a fresh password please go to Password Recovery), if you use your previous EduGeek password on any other sites we recommend you change those account passwords too.
We have written a guide on getting started with LastPass here to help aid password management and EduGeek will be giving away some LastPass Premium 1 year subscriptions via a raffle/draw for members, details will follow soon in a new article.
This article will be updated soon with information about what we have found and what we have done to prevent similar things happening again.
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LastPass is a free password management utility that is not only easy to use but powerful and secure at the same time. It offers secure password generation, storage and automatic completion of password fields on all of your favourite web sites as well as form completion and many other features. ...

We will be closing applications to this round of the EduGeek User Panel on Friday evening. If you would like to join the EduGeek User Panel all you need do is click here and submit a post to apply.

Info about the Panel:
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EduGeek is looking to put together a user panel made up of you, our users. The goal of the panel is to try and ensure all the upcoming tweaks/changes to the site are actually to the benefit of all. The panel will also be asked questions about colour schemes and general thoughts on the future features to try and make sure we are heading down the correct path with EduGeek. Some of these ideas will go to public poll too if they are big issues but initially the panel will be able to give first thoughts.
While on the panel you will also get early access to new features for comment as well as site layout changes.
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For those that are not aware, EduGeek has a UK education IT jobs forum thats free for schools/universities to list jobs on!
On the left side you should see a list of recent jobs but if you would like to be notified daily you can simply click here then select Daily Notifications then each day when new jobs are posted you will get an email with links to them all. ...

Late last night I updated EduGeek's vbulletin install to version 4.1.4. Along with the usual batch of fixes (such as youtu.be support) this version also brought in some new features including a new editor.
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Due to reports of some non-sponsor companies guessing members work addresses and numbers and basically spam calling/emailing from quote request posts we have decided to create a "Quote Requests ...

We have introduced a tweaked prefix style when you attempt to post a new topic in a forum with prefix's.
The new style (shown below) should make it clear and easy ...

As you can see by today’s banner we are losing an admin. Russ Dyas (Russdev) is leaving the world of local govt employ and joining the ranks at Impero. ...

Just a quick reminder of the joint EduGeek/Microsoft webinar due to go out at 3pm (GMT) on Wednesday the 26th Jan. We filmed this on Monday and it contains some very useful information for schools about how to plan for and work around budget cuts. ...

If you happen to browse onto edugeek from your mobile phone you should now get our new mobile skin beta which should provide a ...

Those of you that were checking edugeek over the festive may have noticed the mass of spam posts appearing on the site. At the time ...