Drimnagh is Good from Athena Media on Vimeo. Pauline Sargent contacted Talk About Local in early 2010 when she was looking to create a community website for her home town of Drimnagh, a residential area on the outskirts of Dublin. Talk About Local gave Pauline remote training and ongoing support as she was getting started [...]
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Talk About Local support the growth of Pesky People
When Disabled and Deaf Arts consultant Alison Smith found herself at Hello Digital in October 2009 without the British Sign Language interpreter she was told would be booked by organisers, her protests would have remained unheard were it not for delegates using Twitter. Talk About Local along with many others helped her get her voice [...]
Kingsley House: ‘The forgotten block’
Talk About Local trained Bristol-based UK online centre trainer Don Jenkins, who helped a resident of the Bristol City Council maintained block of flats Kingsley House to create http://kingsleyhouse2010.wordpress.com. The website campaigned for better maintenance of what residents felt was ‘the forgotten block’ and for some long-overdue landscaping work to the communal gardens. Images on the [...]