Since its launch online just nine months ago, York’s One&Other has attracted attention locally and further afield for its ambitious mix of culture and news for the city. This month saw it launch a magazine and there’s even a television station in the pipeline. I asked managing director Stuart Goulden about how the hyperlocal initiative was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As part of Nesta’s launch of the Destinaton Local programme this morning, a significant new report that puts down a marker on where the UK’s hyperlocal media scene currently stands has been published. The Here and Now report is written by Damian Radcliffe, someone many of us are familiar with thanks to his must-view regular [...]
Since its launch online just nine months ago, York’s One&Other has attracted attention locally and further afield for its ambitious mix of culture and news for the city. This month saw it launch a magazine and there’s even a television station in the pipeline. I asked managing director Stuart Goulden about how the hyperlocal initiative was [...]
Today the team were very excited to be be able to announce a new Talk About Local project – Talk About Work, designed to help unemployed people take control of their online presence and promote themselves to employers. Recent research showed that 77% of recruiters said they used search engines to find background data on candidates [...]
As is tradition with our unconferences, at the end of #TAL12 we held the much-awaited Unawards ceremony to mark the very best in hyperlocal innovation and excellence. Below is our list of winners, who were rewarded with some very special prizes purchased from Latifs (‘Where Choice Meets Price’). The winners will also receive a ‘#TAL12 Unaward winner’ [...]
The Talk About Local team have just about recovered from what was a fantastic #TAL12 unconference on Saturday, thank you so much to everyone who came! It was an action-packed day full of interesting conversations and new ideas, ranging from a hyperlocal handbook to neighbourhood planning to a ‘Blogger vs Press Officer’ rematch between Mike Rawlins and Dan [...]
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 [...]