The development department of the greenhouse of social technologies was released by the bot for the Telegram messenger. Teplobot (Telegram Bot for WP) - plugin for WordPress. It automatically creates on your site a simple chat bot, which communicates with visitors and represents the results of search queries, announcements of events and news. Teplobot plugin is free and can be installed on any site based on WordPress. An example of work.

The IT volunteer Valery Novakovsky last week joined in the work of creating the emblem of the All-Russian competition among gifted children with disabilities. The competition is held by the Fund for the Development of Children's Creativity "Seventh Sky" for children who want to try their hand at a professional scene. The IT volunteer created the emblem of the competition. The head of the Foundation Natalya Tarasova left a review on this successfully solved task: “The task is successfully closed.

Solving the problem of a citizen, the authorities increase the likelihood that a person will regularly report new problems. This conclusion was reached by a group of researchers from Digital Engagement evaluation Team (Deet) of the World Bank (World Bank). They analyzed almost 400 thousand appeals that were depersonalized sent through the FixMystreet service (allows you to send complaints about city problems to local authorities) for several years.

Sergey Leshchina , the developer of the Vika Monuments project, the head of the Technical Committee of NP Vikimedia RU , spoke about the involvement of users in improving Wikipedia by reducing the entrance threshold, feedback, competitions for writing articles, photo contests and gamies. Subscribe to our YouTube channel Sergey Leshchchi spoke at Crowdlab -Hakaton crowdsourcing applications to solve public problems, which took place on June 4 and 5, 2016 in St. Petersburg.

How to make advertising in social media effective, and how can user content help in this? One of the effective approaches to the use of advertising in social media is social evidence . In the new article on Kissmetrics, Marketer Amy Millwood tells how to achieve the best results of advertising on Facebook. Advertising on Facebook is an opportunity to significantly increase traffic and conversion.

The project “Map of Good” appeared in May 2013 in the Republic of Tatarstan as a mutual assistance site, which creates a convenient environment for the interaction of volunteers, NPOs and state institutions. Anton Actuganov , the coordinator of the Volunteer Volunteer movement and the project manager, spoke about the history of the creation of the project and its development outside Kazan.