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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. [...]

How to add Twitter to your WordPress blog

If you run a local blog there’s a good chance you might be on Twitter, as my some of your neighbours. This creates a ‘back-channel’ that can often go unseen. So in the interests of enhancing local blogs with this back-channel, below is a video which shows you how to add both your own tweets [...]

Add WriteToThem.com to your WordPress blog

If you’ve not heard of WriteToThem.com before, it’s a great site by mySociety which makes contact politicians really easy, whether that’s your local councillors or your MP, regional assembly member or MEP. To make it even easier for readers of your own blog, I’ve just finished the first phase of a new plugin for WordPress. [...]

Adding local information to your blog using RSS

There’s a lot of useful information lying around the web that has local relevance but often people don’t know it’s there or even how to find it. For example, the NHS Choices web site provides the public with a way of rating and reviewing their local health services. Wouldn’t it be great if you could [...]

Add TheyWorkForYou.com to your WordPress blog

TheyWorkForYou.com is a great site built by e-democracy charity, mySociety. It provides an easy way for citizens to keep an eye on their MP. You can sign up for e-mail updates whenever your MP speaks in the House of Commons, for example. So wouldn’t it be cool if you could also put this stuff on [...]

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