Archive for Michael Rawlins

Location Location Geo-Location

hypARlocal

I rather unsuccessfully, due to network issues, ran a session on Geo-location, at #TAL12 on Saturday. Geo-location is the new project I am working on here at Talk About Local which is being funded by Nesta & Nominet Trust. The Geo-location project or HypARlocal as it is known at TAL towers, is very short, it [...]

#TAL12 timings

For those of you who are heading in to Birmingham on Saturday for #TAL12 here are the session times for the day. We have tried to make #TAL12 busy but leisurely, so you won’t be racing between rooms, the rough timings for the day are: 09:30 – Doors open for the early birds to start [...]

Euston, we’re going local

The fantastic coders over at Fix My Transport have been busily beavering away to deliver a new feature which is targeted at people who run Hyperlocal blogs. Thanks to their work it is now possible to subscribe to an RSS feed for a particular route, such as the bus service that comes through your patch [...]

Twitter – Verified or not?

Every now and then I come across a Twitter user who puts a ✔ after their user name or uses the words Verified Account in their profile. They do this to add an air of legitimacy to the account, to make them more plausible. I have seen an increase in and reported spammers over the last [...]

Local Government & Eventbrite

eventbrite

More of a question for our Local Government followers than a blog post this one. Does your organisation block access to Eventbrite? The reason I’m asking this is because we are in the middle of running a series of events and we are using Eventbrite to manage the attendees which include people from Local Government. [...]

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