The conversations about hyperlocal High Streets are continuing apace – and news reaches us that a High Street camp is in the planning. Readers of this will be aware that we’ve been talking about ways in which local websites and blogs could play a part in boosting neighbourhood High Streets to invigorate communities – previous [...]
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Local Government & Eventbrite
More of a question for our Local Government followers than a blog post this one. Does your organisation block access to Eventbrite? The reason I’m asking this is because we are in the middle of running a series of events and we are using Eventbrite to manage the attendees which include people from Local Government. [...]
Are you celebrating your community?
A guest post from John Popham about his Celebration 2.0 project which Talk About Local are delighted to be supporting. Technology should be fun. What do you use computers and smartphones for? Chatting to your friends on Facebook? Sharing photos with your loved ones? Talking to relatives in far-flung places on Skype? Uploading novelty videos [...]
Help! We need some bodies…
What are you doing on Thursday at 1200? Want to come to a free webinar? We are evaluating a different platform for hosting our on-line training sessions and while we have tested it internally we need to check it out there in the ‘real world’ before we can say it is good to use with [...]
Social Media Safari at LocalGovCamp
The Wizard with a Cat, his Fans and their Council View more presentations from nickygetgood All work and no play can make the Talk About Local team a dull lot, so we were very grateful for the chance to have some collective fun, play and stimulating conversation at LocalGovCamp in Birmingham last Saturday. There [...]