Archive for Examples of ultra local sites

Getgood Linkage #2: websites for traveller communities

This morning Kate Norman asked on Twitter: ‘what websites might be of MOST interest to Romany Travellers?’ There are two great ones that I know of. The first is Savvy Chavvy, a private Ning network created by On Road Media whilst they were training young Gypsies and Travellers in social media skills in Kent, Cambridgshire [...]

Aqua-local: blogging from the canals

Talk About Local has a special connection with canals, since we all live fairly close to them and by chance [in the over-romantic eyes of your blogger], Stoke-on-Trent to Digbeth to Kings Cross quite closely shadows the old routes of the revolutionary Midlands industrialists. If we weren’t in such a tearing hurry all the time [...]

Hashbrum: experimenting with local news

On 15th November I was lucky enough to grab a ten minute chat with Andrew Brightwell of Hasbrum, the new website of ‘Birmingham Hyperlocal News’ created by a group of students on Birmingham City University’s MA Online Journalism course.  Hashbrum is a true experiment – the team do not have a clear long-term goal for [...]

Bournville Village blog goes live

Hannah Waldram, a journalism graduate who grew up in Bournville, Birmingham, has gone live with a hyperlocal site for her home town.  Bournville Village provides ‘The latest news, pics and chat from the Cadbury community’, filling a gap currently left open by traditional media: Bournville has no local newspaper and little going for it on [...]

LoveClapham.com: setting up another local site in London

Jack Wallington from loveclapham.com talks to TAL about building his site. I’ve lived in Clapham for most of my adult life (so far!) and like most people running local sites, became disappointed at the quality of the local press and the lack of online representation for the vibrant Clapham community. LoveClapham.com was born! Setting up [...]

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