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Talk About Local is 'go'

1st June 2009 by William Perrin

We now have a signed contract with 4IP with funding from Screen West Midlands and Advantage West Midlands – thanks to Daniel Heaf,  Melanie Hayes and Jason Hall in particular.

The pre-publicity is out there in the Guardian today, thanks to Jemima Kiss.

Money is starting to come through and we can now get the show on the road.

So next – build the project up: recruit some staff, get a base, rapidly agree a delivery contract with Helen Milner’s excellent team at UK online centres, get engagement and training materials together, build a core website.  Start to trailblaze with some adventurous partners on the ground, keep building partnerships.  And do all the fiddly start up things you have to do with a new company.

As part of all that i shall also take the hyperlocal alliance on to the next stage.

Next on this site will be a job ad for someone to work on the project with me.

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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 Tagged With: 4IP, Advantage West Midlands, Daniel Heaf, Jason Hall, Launch, Melanie Hayes, Screen West Midlands, Talk About Local, UK online centres

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  1. Lucy Hooberman says

    2nd June 2009 at 7:51 am

    congratulations and looking forward to being in touch!

  2. Matt Collins says

    9th June 2009 at 10:21 am

    Congratulations, William. Looking forward to some great stuff coming out of this initiative now that you have some funding.

  3. Simon Grice says

    16th June 2009 at 10:59 pm

    Well done. Look forwards to connecting soon. Best, Simon

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