In the third of this mini-series to showcase some of the remarkable websites and blogs we’ve had the pleasure to be involved with, I hear from The Cricklade Bugle. Contacting Peter of The Cricklade Bugle for our interview over Skype found him in thoughtful mood, working through the ins and outs of a dilemma with [...]
A guest post from John Popham about his Celebration 2.0 project which Talk About Local are delighted to be supporting. Technology should be fun. What do you use computers and smartphones for? Chatting to your friends on Facebook? Sharing photos with your loved ones? Talking to relatives in far-flung places on Skype? Uploading novelty videos [...]
Mary Portas has published her review of town centre trading. I took part in a seminar she organised, where I made the point that town centres were generally non-existant or awful online. They fail to get across the great character of independent traders and the range of things you can do there. There’s huge scope [...]
If you fancy giving your site a bit of a make over now that summer is all but gone, then now could be the time to do it. In the last week or so has seen WordPress release a handful of new themes for you to use on your WordPress hosted site. Selecta & Skeptical [...]
It seems that any of the old Ning networks that were set up before they moved to the paid for model are being removed. A number of you have reported getting E-mails from Ning saying We are going to permanently remove networks from Ning that have never purchased a Mini, Plus or Pro plan. Although [...]
The latest version of the Police Crime map is now live at http://www.police.uk/ this latest version has more detail and allows you to search for crimes around public buildings. On the search page, if you type in the name of any public building, the site will now, show you a map for the area surrounding the public [...]
It’s always great to find out how the sites and blogs we get involved with are getting along and so we were delighted to hear this week from the team at Bramcote Today who’ve just passed the milestone of 50,000 viewers. Read more about their success here: http://bramcotetoday.org.uk/2012/01/28/bramcote-today-passes-major-milestone/#more-4754 And don’t forget, if you’ve any news to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]