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 [...]
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The #TAL12 Unaward winners
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’ [...]
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#TAL12 collective memory
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 [...]
Location Location Geo-Location
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 [...]
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