The first event John Popham will be covering live online as part of his Celebration 2.0 project is Sheffield Steel Roller Girls: Murder on the Flat Track Express, which kicks off at 12pm today. I’m really looking forward to working with the Roller Girls to help them spread the word about a growing phenomenon. I’ll [...]
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Reflections on #Transcamp
On Friday 13th January I counted myself very lucky to have attended Transcamp at Channel 4′s headquarers in London, a social innovation camp organised by On Road Media to come up with ideas to improve media coverage and awareness of trans people in the UK. It was the first social innovation camp I’d attended so I [...]
Hyperlocal exit strategy
One piece of advice Dave Harte gives to community website managers in his fantastic post ‘Hyperlocal till I die‘ is, strangely, ‘to have some children’. Or, more specifically: …something that keeps you tied to an area…The longevity of your blog is directly connected to your life circumstances…‘staying put’ is the best chance your blog has [...]
Recent talk about local training
As Christmas draws closer the Talk About Local office is quietening down, giving us time to look back on the training we’ve delivered over the last month or so. We’ve been as busy as ever, visiting more Community Capacity Builder UK online centres, to help their volunteers use online tools to engage with local people [...]
Drimnagh is Good: ‘to talk Drimnagh up rather than down’
Drimnagh is Good from Athena Media on Vimeo. Pauline Sargent contacted Talk About Local in early 2010 when she was looking to create a community website for her home town of Drimnagh, a residential area on the outskirts of Dublin. Talk About Local gave Pauline remote training and ongoing support as she was getting started [...]