I don’t want to live in Britain that doesn’t care about community. That’s one of the first things the shopping and retail personality Mary Portas states in her ‘vision’ which was presented to the government recently for The Portas Review. It’s a sentiment which every hyperlocal publisher in the country would surely echo so [...]
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Trumpeting the success of Cricklade
In the third of this mini-series to showcase some of the remarkable websites and blogs we’ve had the pleasure to be involved with, I hear from The Cricklade Bugle. Contacting Peter of The Cricklade Bugle for our interview over Skype found him in thoughtful mood, working through the ins and outs of a dilemma with [...]
Sarah Hartley joins the Talk About Local team
I’m delighted to announce that Sarah Hartley is joining the Talk About Local team. We’ve worked with Sarah in all sorts of ways in the last couple of years as she built up the Guardian Local operation and most recently the excellent new hyperlocal service n0tice.com. The whole team at Talk About Local are delighted [...]
Advertising on your wordpress.com site
As we all know, we can’t advertise on our wordpress.com blogs, which is rather annoying as many of you have found out over time that adverts ‘do’ appear on your wordpress site. WordPress do place their own Google ads on your site, but the chances are you will never have seen them as they are [...]