The Maple House venue for this Saturday’s #TAL12 unconference is lovely and central but it’s not in the very best bit of Birmingham, which is of course Digbeth! (See Digbeth is Good for a million reason why.) That’s why the pre-#TAL12 entertainment this Friday 26th April will be geared towards discovering Digbeth. We’ll be starting at 6.00pm with a [...]
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Links for Monday 23rd April
Here are some links the Talk About Local team found interesting for Monday 23rd April: The BBC, Regional News and Sport, and Hyperlocal Blogs | Andy Mabbett, aka pigsonthewing - The BBC are keen to explore the potential for including items from hyperlocal sites in the “From other news sites” links within their online regional news posts. [...]
Talk About Local training with Peabody
Talk About Local has recently been doing further work with staff, volunteers and residents of the Peabody Trust to help them create and develop simple community websites. Back in July 2010 we worked with Future Jobs Fund trainee Daisy at Peabody Trust, to help her create Barnsbury Living - ‘an online community centre for the Barnsbury area’. More training sessions followed [...]
Announcing the #TAL12 Unawards
As is tradition at our unconferences there will be will be some glittering Unawards prizes at #TAL12. Hyperlocal innovation and excellence will be rewarded with the best Latifs (‘Where Choice Meets Price’) has to offer. In the past this has included a child-sized Superman costume, an oven glove, a Michael Jackson alarm clock and a [...]
Hyperlocal Cardiff
Since I relocated to Cardiff in late December last year, I’ve naturally been getting my bearings with the city’s hyperlocal landscape. There’s certainly plenty of activity, with a wide variety independent websites and online voices for the city’s neighbourhoods and communities of interest. Before I moved here I already knew of Llandaff News, a voluntary [...]
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