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Two great projects for hyperlocal websites: UK Sound Map and the 4am Project

31st August 2010 by nickygetgood

Tommy Cooper - from my last 4am Project adventure

Here's a couple of large-scale projects that also create some lovely, localised content which should be of interest to hyperlocal publishers out there. The first is UK Sound Map - a project from the British Library using Audioboo to create 'the … [Read more...] about Two great projects for hyperlocal websites: UK Sound Map and the 4am Project

Filed Under: Blog, Writing and Content Ideas Tagged With: 4amproject, audioboo, british library, flickr, karen struns, uk sound map, uksm

Content idea: publish local photos on your website

22nd June 2010 by nickygetgood

Newcastle Rocks: Saturday morning prep at The Strand

For some simple and effective content, try posting some photos of your local area on your website, these can either be taken by yourself, contributed to you or something you've found elsewhere online. Photos can be a local landscape, landmark or … [Read more...] about Content idea: publish local photos on your website

Filed Under: Quick Tips, Using Images, Video and Audio, Writing and Content Ideas Tagged With: 4am Project, birmingham, Birmingham Flickrmeets, Birmingham it's Not Shit, Creative Commons, digbeth is good, flickr, Friday Photo, karen strunks, Newcastle Rocks, Northern Ireland, photography, photos, talcontent

A rough idea for playing with Audioboo to capture sounds of your neighbourhood

23rd April 2010 by nickygetgood

This is an idea I've been mulling over for a little while but I've not had the time to do much with it as yet, so I thought I'd just put it out there to see what people think of it. One of the finest pieces of radio I've ever heard was when Radio 4 … [Read more...] about A rough idea for playing with Audioboo to capture sounds of your neighbourhood

Filed Under: Blog, Using Images, Video and Audio, Writing and Content Ideas Tagged With: 4amproject, audacity, audioboo, flickr, itunes, kitchen sisters, mp3, podcasting, radio 4, world trade center

How to capture stuff

23rd November 2009 by clare white

As the convenor of all things digital in your community, you are likely to find yourself receiving all sorts of 'stuff'. Welcome to your new life as the human scanner. Scribd is a really useful website to just upload the stray word files, PDFs and … [Read more...] about How to capture stuff

Filed Under: Other Tools and Tips, Quick Tips Tagged With: conversion, flickr, grab, scribd, wordpress

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