Comments on: #TAL Unawards

By: Louis Lawrence

Louis Lawrence — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:00:35 +0000

How about us getting some recognition? three years of local video reporting on the unsung heroes of the voluntary community as welk as some of the unusual businesses on the Isle of Wight?

By: Talk about local - Midlands Heritage Forum

Talk about local - Midlands Heritage Forum — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:39:31 +0000

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By: Dave Harte

Dave Harte — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:56:55 +0000

In Birmingham, Digital Birmingham should be given some respect for the support it has given to hyperlocal bloggers (therefore in 'public sector support' catergory). It does a lot of work championing this cause at quite a high level in the council. For me, The Stirrer leads the way in effective local journalism on the web. It's probably the only hyperlocal that people in power in the City actually read. 'Most inspirational site'. Best use of a map? There were a few of us did stuff around gritting maps (I think it was Northwood Local who started it off). Best Community Engagement? Life in Lozells has pulled off the trick of managing to appear above the bad news stories when you google Lozells. It's changing the whole perspective on that neighbourhood one blog post at a time.

By: Clare

Clare — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:45:36 +0000

@nicky, you have a point there… haven’t had the chance to trasel through for the further afield ones…

Here’s one more I meant to put forward though: http://ventnorblog.com/ (most inspirational)

By: Ray Duffill

Ray Duffill — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:04:27 +0000

I see so much good hyperlocal stuff that this is actually REALLY hard, it would take me hours to judge carefully.

However an easy category first from a personal perspective:

# Best support to hyperlocal bloggers

For this one I would like to nominate three people -

Adam Westbrook http://adamwestbrook.wordpress.com/ Whilst not a hyperlocal blogger himself he has inspired me to be a better blogger, hyperlocal ‘reporter’ and all round better online person.

Philip John – probably lots of information about moneymaking now available but his post http://philipjohn.co.uk/getting-serious-about-hyperlocal-part-3-money-money-money/ just convinced me that perhaps, just perhaps, I don’t have to be a Hyperdole forever!

And finally – no bribery needed – @TalkAboutLocal who via Will Perrin at #TALo9 convinced me to go out and ‘give it a go’ and introduced me to the solidarity of other Hyperlocal folk

By: Shona Ghosh

Shona Ghosh — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:47:34 +0000

Best Twitter Stream and Best Community Engagement – @whampstead without a doubt.

Twitter stream: all-day updates, excellent use of tailored hyperlocal hashtags (e.g. tube updates are tagged with #whamptravel), excellent retweeter putting local tweeters in touch and excellent knowledge of the area from leisure to politics. Just many excellents altogether – astonishing for a one-man band.

Community Engagement: I iterate the point about engaging with local politicians (particularly on Twitter), tweeting about local hustings and finally he organises #whampgather to allow local peeps to meet. I went to the last one and it had an excellent turnout, plus had the nice idea of a raffle which gave away prizes from local businesses.

By: Mike Rawlins

Mike Rawlins — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:20:22 +0000

@ClareWhite #edlsot â€“ reporting by pitsnpots and others on the EDL Marchin Hanley, unfortunately no longer live

Yes it is:

http://pitsnpots.co.uk/live

By: Nicky Getgood

Nicky Getgood — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:19:20 +0000

Noticing ever such a slight Stoke bias there, Clare.

By: Clare

Clare — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:02:33 +0000

I’ll second the nomination for http://www.wakegreenpark.blogspot.com/, great new site

By: Clare

Clare — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:50:00 +0000

From the night shift, these are the ones I’ve thought of so far… (I’m sure you’ll make a ruling on whether we can nominate the work of colleagues!)

Best Hyperlocal Twitter stream
http://twitter.com/stoketraffic
#edlsot – reporting by pitsnpots and others on the EDL Marchin Hanley, unfortunately no longer live

Best Hyperlocal Story/Post
http://meanwhileinstoke.blogspot.com/2009/09/computer.html
http://meanwhileinstoke.blogspot.com/2008/11/close-encounters-of-first-kind.html

Most Inspirational site
http://pitsnpots.co.uk/
http://blurbonline.ning.com/
http://www.thepotteries.org/

Best local special interest website
http://bizfizzburslem.wordpress.com/ (businesses)
http://thegroundhog.wordpress.com/ (football stadiums)
http://stokesounds.blogspot.com/ (music)
http://www.midlandsheritage.co.uk/ (history)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=107123375486 (dialect)
http://www.grannybuttons.com/granny_buttons/ (canals)

Best campaign
http://savethepaintedhouse.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31270808101

Best community engagement
http://sacredhearthanley.ning.com/

Best council coverage
http://pitsnpots.co.uk/
http://www.readmyday.co.uk/pkb
http://openlylocal.com/

The UnTourist Board Award for a site that attracts visitors to a place
http://digbeth.org/
http://goodfoodshops.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2474585052&ref=ts (Burslem)

Most innovative use of data
http://traintimes.org.uk/map/?bhm
http://openlylocal.com/

Best use of video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqxKHv-eyJ8

Best use of a map
http://traintimes.org.uk/map/?bhm

UK Hyperlocal Favourite Tool
Wordpress
Blogspot
Youtube
Ning
Google Maps
Delicious
Flickr
http://helpmeinvestigate.com/

Best public sector backing of hyperlocals
Cabinet Office / Digital Engagement office (even if they’re not in Stoke, yet)