Since I relocated to Cardiff in late December last year, I’ve naturally been getting my bearings with the city’s hyperlocal landscape. There’s certainly plenty of activity, with a wide variety independent websites and online voices for the city’s neighbourhoods and communities of interest. Before I moved here I already knew of Llandaff News, a voluntary [...]
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Visiting UK online centres that are community hubs
The other day I went to Peterborough to catch up with two UK online centres delivering the talk about local training in their areas – the Peterborough Womens’ Centre and The Deepings Centre in the small, picturesque town of Market Deeping (about a half hour’s bus ride from central Peterborough). I’ve been visiting a lot [...]
Community surgery: how to tackle the problems that could kill your blog
Modern websites are not just a set of pages sent between computers and consumed by passive pairs of eyes. The best websites are living, breathing communities, full of ever-changing content and lively debate, witty exchanges and with a bustling calendar of real-life events. The problem, of course, with communities, is, we hate to say… people. [...]
Social media fun at the fair
On Saturday me and Mike were lucky enough to enjoy a day in the sunshine in the name of work, giving something of a mini social media surgery under a tent in a field. We spent the day introducing people enjoying Fulham Fest to the new community website for the London W14 & SW6 neighbourhoods, [...]