Archive for December 11, 2009

Aqua-local: blogging from the canals

Talk About Local has a special connection with canals, since we all live fairly close to them and by chance [in the over-romantic eyes of your blogger], Stoke-on-Trent to Digbeth to Kings Cross quite closely shadows the old routes of the revolutionary Midlands industrialists. If we weren’t in such a tearing hurry all the time [...]

A Kington Christmas Carol

Soon after talk about local helped those at Marches Access Point create The Kington Blackboard in August 2009, the community website very quickly started looking ahead to the festive season, discussing the issue of Christmas lights.  Although the online poll vote was overwhelmingly for lights for the small Herefordshire town, it seemed the money for [...]

UnAwards

We have now closed the nominations for the Talk About Local UnAwards categories and will make final decisions as to which of the categories we are going to open up for nominations over the Christmas & New Year break. The highly coveted UnAwards will be presented at a ceremony which will take place a little [...]

Opening up court reporting for UK hyperlocal websites

Crime and anti-social behaviour are the most challenging topics local websites have to tackle.  But most local sites don’t  want to add to local fear of crime by just reporting incidents – we want to publish results and support our local criminal justice professionals in the police, crown prosecution service, courts and prisons.  Finding out [...]

Add GroupsNearYou.com to your WordPress blog

There’s a great site for finding social groups in your area called GroupsNearYou.com. Just type in your location or postcode and it shows you what’s close by. Now you can provide that very same ease of use to your own local blog. I’ve just finished the first phase of a new GroupsNearYou plugin for WordPress. [...]

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