One piece of advice Dave Harte gives to community website managers in his fantastic post ‘Hyperlocal till I die‘ is, strangely, ‘to have some children’. Or, more specifically: …something that keeps you tied to an area…The longevity of your blog is directly connected to your life circumstances…‘staying put’ is the best chance your blog has [...]
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Content idea from Bournville Village: News from the notice boards
News from the notice boards is a great new regular feature that Dave Harte has introduced on the Bournville Village website: One of the best ways to find out what’s happening in and around Bournville is to take time to read the notice boards on the Village Green. We’ll be making this a regular category [...]
July webinar sessions with hyperlocal publishers: spaces available
We are reaching the end of the first national wave of talk about local training with UK online centres and some amazing websites have emerged, such as Moretonhampstead Hub, Heeley Online, Doddington’s Doings and This is Penhill. I’ll be writing more about these exciting new community sites later, but in the meantime we’re keen to [...]