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Barnsbury Living: ‘an online community centre’

Oct 19th, 2011 @ 02:49 pm › Nicky Getgood
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Talk About Local trained a young woman Daisy Cooper, who was a future jobs fund trainee with Peabody Trust, to create http://barnsburyliving.wordpress.com – ‘an online community centre for the Barnsbury area’. Based in the Priory Green Estate the website serves to connect local residents with updates of local news, events, social clubs and events, communal spaces and job vacancies. There are dozens of notices on the site for local people. Daisy went on to train people on other estates and help them find a voice online.

Daisy has now moved on and talk about local has worked with Peabody to train other local people to contribute to the website and find their own voices online, resulting in a new website for the Green Man Community Centre in East Finchley.

Nicky is the Communications Manager at Talk About Local – recruiting, training and working with IT trainers and active citizens across the UK to help them create and develop simple yet effective community websites and online profiles. Nicky is currently overseeing Talk About Local's Networking for Work project, helping jobseekers to take control of their online profiles and look their best online. Nicky managed the popular Birmingham hyperlocal website Digbeth is Good since it began in May 2008 until moving to Cardiff in December 2011, where she helps organise regular Canton Social Media Surgeries. Nicky is interested in ways of using storytelling, game-playing and events within communities to tell their stories and effect positive change.