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Ten Questions: Sean Brady of Formby First

September 15, 2010 Nicky Getgood 2 comments

Sean Brady started Formby First in May 2007 to report on his activities as a locally elected Parish Councillor for the Merseyside coastal town, which is a popular tourist spot.  Since then he has developed the website to ‘write occasional stories about Formby as a place’.  In July 2009 Sean created formbyfirst.info – ‘a free [...]

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talk about local in Swindon

August 27, 2010 Nicky Getgood No comments

Last week I took a trip to Swindon to meet, chat with and later interview the managers of three community websites at CLIP Penhill, a UK online centre on the Penhill estate that has been delivering talk about local training. My first interview was with John Saunders, manager of the CLIP Penhill Centre and Jon [...]

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Ten Questions: Pauline Sargent of Drimnagh is Good

August 16, 2010 Nicky Getgood 2 comments

Pauline Sargent from Drimnagh, Dublin contacted the talk about local team in January of this year asking for advice on a new community website she was thinking about starting for her area, which we were more than happy to give her.  Later in March Drimnagh is Good was born ‘to help Drimnagh shout about the [...]

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Talking to Anthony Hickey about Mayo Today

July 26, 2010 Nicky Getgood One comment

Whilst I was enjoying a weekend break in Westport, County Mayo last month I took the chance to meet Anthony Hickey, the manager of the Mayo Today website, which has gone from strength to strength since it started just 5 months ago in February 2010. The blog actually grew from a Twitter account Anthony created [...]

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Running, data and community

June 24, 2010 daveharte 2 comments

As if I wasn’t already busy enough trying to capture what’s happening in Bournville on the hyperlocal website I edit, I’ve now committed to managing the website for my running club, Bournville Harriers. I though it worth sharing here how we work the online stuff, which makes a change from me boring on about the [...]

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