On our web pages you will see an option to bookmark or share this page. There are links to external social sites, email this page and print the page.

The links enable you to share Central Bedfordshire Council website pages that you find interesting with your friends and contacts on those external sites.

We want you to be able to share information and make comments about our website and these links make that easier.

How does each link work?

Facebook is a free to use social networking site which requires you to register with them before you can share a link. When you click on the Facebook logo, you will be directed away from the Central Bedfordshire Council website to Facebook. You will then need to sign in to your Facebook account.

The link will then be automatically be added to your profile and you can make a comment about this.

Twitter is a free micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' short text-based posts (maximum of 140 characters). Like Facebook, when you click on the Twitter logo, you will be directed away from the Central Bedfordshire Council website to Twitter.

You will then need to sign in to your Twitter account. The link will then be added, which will be part of your 140 character limit.

Delicious is the place to collect and showcase your passions from across the web. Save what you like - videos, pictures, tweets, blog posts, or articles - on topics you enjoy and compile them into one themed stack for easy sharing.

Clicking on the Delicious logo will take you to their main sign in page, and from there you can then work with the link from our website.

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our community.

Digg will allow you to login with Facebook, meaning you do not have to have an additional account and password to remember.

Social networking sites

All of these sites are free to use and require you to register with them. Once you have registered you can begin sharing links.

You will not need an account with us to do this. When you click on a site's logo you will be directed to the social site. We will not ask you for any personal information during this process.

Email this page

When you click on this icon, it will pop open a box which will ask for:

Your name: your first name

Your surname: your family name

Your email: your email address

Your friend’s email: your friend’s email address

This is a fast way of sharing the link to this page with your friends. We will NOT store, reuse or share this information with anyone.

Using your name and email address will give your friend the peace of mind that this is not a spam email.

What will your friend see?

The subject of the email will be: Your Name saw this information on Central Bedfordshire Council's website and thought you would be interested in seeing it.

Then there will be a link embedded to our website which will be the address of the page you have come from.

Print this page

This function will allow you to print off the information from the page you are on. It will take out the top and side menus so you are left with the main information in the middle of your page.

Let’s Talk Central has been developed as a community discussion website to find out how those who live and work in Central Bedfordshire feel about the area. We will ask you to discuss decisions the council is currently consulting on but we also want to hear and see your stories about the area – you can type them up, record a video or take photos and share them with other residents using Let’s Talk Central.

This site is all about you and what you think – and the council will be listening – because it is only by listening to local people can the council take decisions that reflect our communities’ priorities. 

Twitter is a free micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' short text-based posts (maximum of 140 characters). We post updates most days about what is going on in the area, the work we do and local events.

Facebook is a free social networking website to connect and interact with other people. We use Facebook to raise awareness of what is happening in Central Bedfordshire, council consultations, council job vacancies, promote local events and discuss issues.

Flickr is a free online photo sharing website. We use Flickr to share photos of the area, the work we do, our people and local events.

You Tube is a free online video sharing website. We use You Tube to share videos of the area, the work we do, our people and local events.

We try and respond to as many replies or comments we can, however this isn't always possible. Our social media accounts are not currently monitored twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It is also easy to miss posts in busy social media traffic.

Please don't be offended if we don't "Like" or "Follow" you on social media. This doesn't mean we don't like you or are not interested in what you have to say, it's just that the numbers can get too high for us to manage.

We sometimes follow or like people who provide information that is pertinent to our work as a local authority (for example central government accounts, local media, and our partners) or those whose information we can pass on for the benefit of many local people. However, just because we like or follow someone, retweet or share their information, it doesn't mean that we endorse them.

We try and share or retweet information that we think will be of interest or use to residents of Central Bedfordshire, however please don't be offended if we don't retweet something you want us to. As a trusted organisation, any sharing of information could be seen as endorsement of a particular view, individual or organisation, and it's important that we remain impartial and protect the council's reputation.

Most online communities have their own rules and guidelines, which we will always follow.

Where possible, we will rely on the measures of protection and intervention which the social networking sites already have in place (e.g. against illegal, harmful or offensive content), for example by flagging comments or alerting them to any breaches of the site's terms and conditions.

We also have some of our own rules.

We reserve the right to remove any contributions that break the rules of the relevant community, or any of the following guidelines:

In the six-week run up to an election - local, general or European - councils have to very careful not to do or say anything that could seen in any way to support any political party or candidate. We will continue to publish important service announcements using social media but may have to remove responses if they are overtly party political.