It’s been good to see some new student names contributing to the CfJ blog during the holiday period – don’t forget there’ll be prizes for the best first year contributions when term resumes, so keep those blogs and comments coming in.

Meanwhile I’ve been working on better integration of external student blog and Twitter accounts with this site. I’m aware of a number of students who have their own blogs set up, and I’d like to run headline feeds from these to an area on the CfJ site – should be mutually beneficial in terms of traffic. The ones I know of so far are from Nick P, Alan M, Sara M, Jon S and James W. If there are others I haven’t yet discovered, could you send me a link so that I can include them too? I’ll get this up and running soon.

Even more students have Twitter accounts, so I’ve finally got around to finishing something I started a few months ago – a system which will automatically post tweets from your own Twitter accounts to this site too. To add your account to this system, follow these steps:

 1. Log in to the CfJ site
2. Click ‘My account’ in the top left of the page
3. Click the ‘Edit’ tab that should appear under your name on the main page (Note: don’t click the ‘Twitter’ tab)
4. Click ‘Twitter accounts’ link that should appear underneath the tabs
5. Add your Twitter username and password (it’s totally secure) and click the ‘Add Account’ blue box underneath.
6. Twitter will authorise your account. Once it appears, make sure the ‘import’ box has a tick in it, then click ‘Save changes’

Once a few of you have tried this, I’ll create an area on the site which will simply aggregate all CfJ tweets.

If you have any difficulites authorising your accounts, let me know in the comments to this post.