April 17th, 2010 | Published in Blog, TAL10
We’ve launched a Cover It Live event for the talk about local unconference and unawards today (Click Here). Please tag your tweets, pictures, etc. #TAL10 for them to be included. The Guardian are also live blogging this events at Guardian Leeds.
April 14th, 2010 | Published in Blog, TAL10
#TAL10 Unawards prizes
Here’s a quick details update for the Unconference and Unawards this Saturday. So book your train tickets, set your alarms, synchronize your watches…
The Unconference is held at Old Broadcasting House in central Leeds, follow this link for location and parking details.
The TAL team will be at the venue from 9.00am, because we’re a hard-working bunch. You’re welcome to join us and share in our early bird breakfast buffet. The Unconference itself will kick off from 10.00am and things will roughly run as follows:
9.00am – Venue open for an early bird breakfast
10.00am – Introductions and session planning for the day
10.30am – 4 x session one’s
11.30pm – 4 x session two’s
12.30pm – Lunch! Nom.
1.30pm – 4 x session three’s
2.30pm – 4 x session four’s
3.30pm – Wrapping up
4.00pm – Guardian Leeds Beat Blogger John Baron will lead everyone on a guided tour to the Unawards venue, Chilli White, where you can enjoy a drinks in the bottom bar before the grand event that is…(drum roll)….
The Unawards are from 6.00pm in the top bar at Chilli White, just behind the Corn Exchange in central Leeds. We are busy musing over your nominations for winners right now, to decide who will receive the gorgeous prizes pictured above (courtesy of Latif’s Wholesale, Digbeth). Let us know if you can think of some deserving winners for these precious things.
As we’re starting early we’ll be staying in Leeds the Friday night before, as will a few others who are coming from far afield. So if you’re around please join us for a warm-up curry. We’ll be meeting at 7.00pm in Northbar (New Briggate, central Leeds) for a pint before sitting down to eat in Akbars at 8.30pm.
April 13th, 2010 | Published in Blog, TAL10
Whilst things are gearing up for the talk about local Unconference this Saturday don’t forget the social event of the year that directly follows it. I am of course referring to the glittering talk about local Unawards ceremony this Saturday 17th April from 6pm onwards in Chilli White, Leeds.
This grand occasion will see the best hyperlocal talent in the UK getting recognition for their efforts in the shape of a round of a applause, a raising of glasses and a beautiful badge to adorn their website.
The talk about local team have carefully considered your suggestions for categories, and have whittled them down to the list below. If deserving winners for these titles spring to mind, please comment your suggestions with reasons why. This Friday a panel of esteemed judges (us lot) will hide away in a locked room, consider your comments along with our own personal preferences, and decide upon the winners arbitrarily. Who said democracy was dead?
All hyperlocal community websites in the UK are eligible for one of the following Unawards, so speak now or until next year hold our peace:
March 31st, 2010 | Published in Blog, TAL10
We have released he next bunch of tickets to the waitlist this morning so check your inboxes.
December 22nd, 2009 | Published in Talk About Local, hyperlocal
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 later than we first said and somewhere other than the West Midlands.
We have been speaking to a sponsor for the next Talk About Local UnConference and we are currently investigating some venues in the the North of England for an event in the first quarter of 2010. Once we have got a confirmed venue we will give you more details. The UnAwards will be presented at a glittering ceremony after the UnConference.
All that remains is for William, Nicky, Clare and I to wish you a very happy Christmas & New Year.
August 16th, 2009 | Published in Talk About Local, hyperlocal
We are going to be holding the first Talk About Local Unconference in Stoke-on-Trent on Saturday 3rd October. We are proud to announce that the Unconference is being hosted by Staffordshire University Faculty of Arts, Media & Design in the film theatre which is a very short walk from the railway station.
Directions to the campus can be found here
Stoke is easily accessible from most rail routes, the M6 and even canal.
The conference is not for you to come and be comatised by web 2.0 marketeers telling you how you can monetize 24/365 relationships or transition viral ROI it is for real people, running real hyperlocal sites to network with people who are doing the same thing.
The thing people say to us most when we are talking about Talk About Local (and you may have noticed we love to talk about it!) is ‘I didn’t know anyone else was doing this’ so we are giving you the chance to meet up with all the other people who you didn’t know were doing the same as you!
The format is going to be Unconference, fun, relaxed and informal. As well and the unconference event, we will be holding social media surgeries where you can come along and speak to friendly developers and experts to get advice about your site or how to fix that niggling problem you just can’t seem to get your head around.
The best bit is it’s free! Yes FREE!
But there is no such thing as a free lunch I hear you cry.
Well actually there is because we will even feed you during the day!
Please click HERE and fill in our very simple pre registration form and we’ll add you to our mailing list, as soon as we have the venue confirmed we’ll drop you a mail with all the details.