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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]