Last Thursday myself, William and Mike found ourselves delivering training in a room above a chip shop in Woodley Shopping Precinct, Stockport to a group of local residents. The training room is part of the unique Startpoint Woodley UK online centre, which is one of the many Community Capacity Builder centres Talk About Local are [...]
Tag Archive for hyperlocal
Local People moves to franchise model
Jon Slattery has just posted about Northcliffe Digital moving their Local People sites to a franchise offering to help them move in to new areas. Previously Northcliffe Digital had said that they would not start a Local People site in an area that already has an existing hyperlocal site, but with this move it seems [...]
Fix My Transport
Fix My Transport, which launched earlier this week is the latest creation from the fantastic My Society people. Fix My Transport aims to make reporting public transport problems as easy as reporting pot-holes and broken street lights is on Fix My Street. It has a very simple user interface which belies the huge database that it uses [...]
Police and social media – institutional leadership problems
Institutionally the police have fallen hopelessly behind the average citizen in the way that they communicate. Police need to communicate online as well as offline at all ranks with people in communities that they serve. I am a strong supporter of the police, but have been frustrated over the last couple of years by police senior [...]
Local crime data – Crime and Justice Transparency Panel – terms of reference
At Talk About Local we hope that in time local websites become major beneficiaries of greater transparency in local public data. It’s a great tragedy that fear of crime has increased while actual crime rates have fallen in many cases. Accurate and responsible use of data about crime and the justice system can help tackle [...]