Tag Archive for jon bounds

Reflections on UK GovCamp 2011 and a discussion around online archives #ukgc11

There were some particularly inspiring and thought-provoking sessions at UK GovCamp 2011 last Saturday.  The ones I found most enjoyable were: The session on trade unions led by Paul Evans, starting off with a rough aim to make trade unions more open and democratic and ending with ideas for a Rate My Union, Rate My [...]

Ten Questions: Sean Brady of Formby First

Sean Brady started Formby First in May 2007 to report on his activities as a locally elected Parish Councillor for the Merseyside coastal town, which is a popular tourist spot.  Since then he has developed the website to ‘write occasional stories about Formby as a place’.  In July 2009 Sean created formbyfirst.info – ‘a free [...]

Hyperlocal news wire

Jon Bounds is part of Birmingham’s wonderfully creative  social media scene.  He runs Birmingham It’s Not Shit and played an important part in the outstanding repurposing of a dreary council consultation in Big City Talk. We talked about how we could make small hyperlocal stories visible on the national scene by aggregating them into a [...]

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