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Content idea: dog fouling

17th June 2010 by William Perrin

No one likes dog poo.  It’s a curse of modern urban life – it isn’t the dog’s fault, it’s the owners’ and sometimes the local authority’s fault for not policing the issue properly.

Local websites can help people give voice to a problem that other media outlets ignore (it’s quite hard to sell advertising next to a discussion on dog poo).  It’s an issue that often pops up on  local websites.  There is a robust discussion in the site in rural Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire and a wry observation about signs on this site in Leith, Edinburgh.

In Kings Cross, frustrated by the council’s apparent indifference I took things one step further and created some ‘dog poo flags‘ with the council’s brand on them, took photos and put them on the website.  It didn’t achieve a result – there is still a big problem – but it made me feel better that i had done something.  Nicky has written an interesting piece on a map of UK dog poo !

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William Perrin
Founder of Talk About Local, Trustee of the Indigo Trust, Tinder Foundation, 360Giving, co-founder Connect8, former member of UK Government transparency panels, former Policy Advisor to UK Prime Minister, former Cabinet Office senior civil servant.Open data do-er, Kings Cross London blogger. Loves countryside. Two small children.
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Filed Under: Blog, Campaigning, Quick Tips, Writing and Content Ideas Tagged With: dog fouling, dog poo, poo, ukpoo

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