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 – The Harp newspaper and the Digbeth is Good community website, which publishes monthly reports of the group’s events and notices. [...]
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Content idea: local love stories
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 [...]
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Some useful links 17/09/2010
Here’s some links I spotted recently, which you might find interesting: What’s beautiful to you? is a photography competition being run by Dezeen and The Photographers’ Gallery to find ‘Areas of Outstanding Urban Beauty’. ‘The idea behind the competition is to find out what people love about the places where they live’, so submit a photo of somewhere [...]
Two great projects for hyperlocal websites: UK Sound Map and the 4am Project
Here’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 – a project from the British Library using Audioboo to create ‘the first nationwide sound map’: Take part by publishing recordings of your surroundings using the [...]