A great way to pull in local content for your site is to do a regular search of YouTube for your postcode or area name and see if there are any relevant videos on there that you can embed into a post on your website. I subscribe to searches for YouTube videos tagged ‘Digbeth’ (via [...]
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Getgood Linkage #1: Heritage
Every so often I find myself emailing people who have requested links and/or information about creating community content around a particular subject or issue. I’m thinking it would be better for me to share that information with everyone, so I’m going to start copying it into blog posts here. One topic I get asked a [...]
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UnAwards
We have now closed the nominations for the Talk About Local UnAwards categories and will make final decisions as to which of the categories we are going to open up for nominations over the Christmas & New Year break. The highly coveted UnAwards will be presented at a ceremony which will take place a little [...]
Lost and Found
As any DiGpuss fans will know, I’m constantly finding things on the Birmingham streets that someone, somewhere once owned. It’s usually discarded, battered tat but occasionally I’ll find something that I suspect its rightful owner might want back, such as the above leather jacket, which I discovered in the Custard Factory after a large event [...]