On 25th November William Perrin and I were lucky enough to attend a Social Media Workshop at the West Midlands Police Headquarters in Birmingham, which bought together the likes of talk about local, Podnosh and MyPolice with a small group of people from police forces across the UK to catch up and to discuss the [...]
Archive for General ultralocal or hyperlocal stuff
Adding a hyperlocal Twitter feed
It’s nice to add a Twitter RSS feed about a place to your site as it will generate plenty of fresh content and pick up things you might not know about. But there is a danger that spam will end up appearing. You can minimise this a little by using Twitter advanced search and cutting [...]
A personal journey through the neighbourhood
This documentary of one man’s journey into the derelict Birmingham Battery building is one of the best YouTube films I’ve ever seen. Not because of the production skills of creators Living Proof Films (great though they are), but because of the quite emotional narration. You really do see inside the iconic building from the photographer’s [...]
Free Blogging Sessions
As part of our roll out for the Talk About Local project we are going to be running some taster sessions around the West Midlands. The sessions will be an introduction in to setting up your own online blog. The sesions will comprise of: An introduction to blogging How hyperlocal sites can help you communicate [...]
Talk About Local grows…
I’m delighted that Mike Rawlins of PitsnPots and Nicky Getgood of Digbeth is Good have agreed to join the TAL team full time joining me and Clare White who has been working on the project part time. Mike, Nicky and Clare are some of the best hyperlocal talent around and TAL gives them the opportunity [...]