If you have an idea to improve your local area, don’t reinvent the wheel. Plenty of strong online communities bring people together in clever ways to swap, trade and collaborate. If you find that not many people are registered in your area yet, the sites can still help your community group get organised without having [...]
Archive for November 23, 2009
Capture your neighbourhood at the magical time of 4am
To see your area in a new light (literally) and get some interesting visual content for a local website, I’d really recommend taking part in Karen Strunks’ 4am Project, a photography project using the photo sharing network Flickr ‘to gather a collection of photos from around the world at the magical time of 4am’. Karen [...]
How to capture stuff
As the convenor of all things digital in your community, you are likely to find yourself receiving all sorts of ‘stuff’. Welcome to your new life as the human scanner. Scribd is a really useful website to just upload the stray word files, PDFs and snapshots of pieces of paper you will receive, either temporarily [...]
Government data on the ground, making a difference
Tim Berners-Lee’s work for the UK government is yielding all sorts of interesting public sector data – the challenge it to put it to good use at a hyperlocal level. I am rounding up some local data people to meet with government people leading work in this area. Public sector data yields the most benefit [...]