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		<title>Hyperlocal hoaxes for April Fool&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Getgood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The morning of the April 1st saw many people being duped by April Fool&#8217;s pranks in the newspapers and on the television and radio.  For a pretty comprehensive round-up of the mainstream media&#8217;s jokes, read journalism.co.uk&#8216;s article April Fools&#8217; Day: Headline hoaxes from the morning&#8217;s news. When I saw more and more outrageous stories being told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police Crime Mapping Site Goes Live</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/police-crime-mapping-site-goes-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Rawlins</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/?p=2061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, well last night actually, www.police.uk went live. Police.uk allows you to look at crime data by place name postcode or address, so really handy if you are looking to move, but also quite a handy content idea for your Hyperlocal site. By entering a postcode you get several views available: Overview Just that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on UK GovCamp 2011 and a discussion around online archives #ukgc11</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/reflections-on-uk-govcamp-2011-and-a-discussion-around-online-archives/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/reflections-on-uk-govcamp-2011-and-a-discussion-around-online-archives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Getgood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were some particularly inspiring and thought-provoking sessions at UK GovCamp 2011 last Saturday.  The ones I found most enjoyable were: The session on trade unions led by Paul Evans, starting off with a rough aim to make trade unions more open and democratic and ending with ideas for a Rate My Union, Rate My [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Displaying the local weather forecast on your WordPress.com website</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/using-the-rss-widget-to-show-the-local-weather-forecast/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/using-the-rss-widget-to-show-the-local-weather-forecast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Getgood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been asked by Lee, who has started a new community website for the Great Barr, Kingstanding and Oscott areas of Birmingham The B44 Blog, &#8216;do you know how to set up a weather widget on the side of wordpress.com?&#8217; The answer is yes, this is quite an easy thing to do using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Lucie Kerley of the MACE Full Circle project</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/interview-with-lucie-kerley-of-the-mace-full-circle-project/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/interview-with-lucie-kerley-of-the-mace-full-circle-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Getgood</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[digbeth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/?p=1885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A little while ago I did a short interview with Lucie Kerley of the MACE Full Circle project.  Covering the East and West Midlands regions, it looks to &#8217;realise the potential of films and videos currently hidden away in attics and sheds in your community&#8217; and make them accessible.  I spoke to Lucie about how she felt community websites could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content idea: Obituaries and Local Births, Deaths &amp; Marriages</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/content-idea-obituaries-and-local-births-deaths-marriages/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/content-idea-obituaries-and-local-births-deaths-marriages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Getgood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/?p=1874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Birmingham Irish Heritage Group committee member Charlie Leydon sadly died in February, chair Mike Walsh was keen for there to be a written tribute to him in two publications popular with group members &#8211; The Harp newspaper and the Digbeth is Good community website, which publishes monthly reports of the group&#8217;s events and notices. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Content idea: local love stories</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/content-idea-local-love-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/content-idea-local-love-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Getgood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/?p=1824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people love a good love story, and the readers of your community website are no exception. Are there any couples in your local community who have a particularly romantic tale to tell? Might they be willing to share their story with your website, as the man in the video above did with Karen Strunks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some useful links 17/09/2010</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/some-useful-links-17092010/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/some-useful-links-17092010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Getgood</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Mabbett]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mike rawlins]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/?p=1696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some links I spotted recently, which you might find interesting: What&#8217;s beautiful to you? is a photography competition being run by Dezeen and The Photographers&#8217; Gallery to find &#8216;Areas of Outstanding Urban Beauty&#8217;. &#8216;The idea behind the competition is to find out what people love about the places where they live&#8217;, so submit a photo of somewhere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two great projects for hyperlocal websites: UK Sound Map and the 4am Project</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/two-great-projects-for-hyperlocal-websites-uk-sound-map-and-the-4am-project/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/two-great-projects-for-hyperlocal-websites-uk-sound-map-and-the-4am-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Getgood</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/?p=1633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a couple of large-scale projects that also create some lovely, localised content which should be of interest to hyperlocal publishers out there. The first is UK Sound Map &#8211; a project from the British Library using Audioboo to create &#8216;the first nationwide sound map&#8217;: Take part by publishing recordings of your surroundings using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retooled</title>
		<link>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/retooled/</link>
		<comments>http://talkaboutlocal.org.uk/retooled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Getgood</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Gould]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lizzie Ostrom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was working at the second of two, day-long workshops for Retooled.  Retooled is a project begun by a group of ex-Rover MG employees who were made redundant when the company went bust 5 years ago and aims to become a resource for those facing or going through redundancy: We believe the best advice [...]]]></description>
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