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Robot Frank Dobson – feeding your MP's Parliamentary appearances into Facebook

22nd January 2014 by William Perrin

There’s a huge audience in Facebook and I am fascinated as to how we can feed democratic information into Facebook as efficiently as pictures of kittens falling off things. It turns out it's pretty easy. My other work as a Trustee of The Indigo … [Read more...] about Robot Frank Dobson – feeding your MP's Parliamentary appearances into Facebook

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Facebook, kings cross

Keeping the love alive with your #hyperlocal website and #TAL13

27th September 2013 by William Perrin

Running any website over a long period is at first a love affair that morphs into  a long term relationship.  There’s renewing your vows (replatforming from Typepad), having affairs (you’ve been spending too much time with Twitter), getting drunk and … [Read more...] about Keeping the love alive with your #hyperlocal website and #TAL13

Filed Under: Blog, Uncategorized Tagged With: Blog, kings cross, romance

UK central government opens up local government to bloggers and local social media

23rd August 2012 by William Perrin

In what should be a big leap forward for local democracy and community web media UK central government is to decree in law that local government meetings must be open to local bloggers, tweeters, community web forums etc. I am not going to do the … [Read more...] about UK central government opens up local government to bloggers and local social media

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: #opendata, Blog, clg, democracy, islington, kings cross, openly local, Ventnor

Content idea: introduce your Safer Neighbourhood Team to the community

22nd June 2010 by nickygetgood

PSNI Newcastle

Why not introduce your local Bobbies on the beat to your readers with a short post about them, much like Newcastle Rocks have done in this simple post, which includes details of the Newcastle PSNI station, Who's Who and statistics on How They're … [Read more...] about Content idea: introduce your Safer Neighbourhood Team to the community

Filed Under: Quick Tips, Writing and Content Ideas Tagged With: kings cross, kings cross environments, newcastle, Newcastle Rocks, Northern Ireland, Operation Nemesis, safer neighbourhood team, talcontent, Tamworth, Tamworth Blog, william perrin

Content idea: search YouTube for locally relevant videos to post on your website

17th June 2010 by nickygetgood

A great way to pull in local content for your site is to do a regular search of YouTube for your postcode or area name and see if there are any relevant videos on there that you can embed into a post on your website. I subscribe to searches for … [Read more...] about Content idea: search YouTube for locally relevant videos to post on your website

Filed Under: Quick Tips, Using Images, Video and Audio, Writing and Content Ideas Tagged With: custard factory, digbeth, digbeth is good, kings cross, kings cross environments, kings cross TV, moretonhampstead, moretonhampstead hub, rss, william perrin, youtube

Why I'd like to see a map of #ukpoo

14th May 2010 by nickygetgood

Yes, I would. Really. And not just because I’m incredibly puerile and tickled by toilet humour (although that's got something to do with it) but also because I think it has the potential to serve a useful purpose. Now you probably know about the … [Read more...] about Why I'd like to see a map of #ukpoo

Filed Under: Blog, Campaigning, Writing and Content Ideas Tagged With: hastags, islington, kings cross, kings cross environments, pete ashton, twitter, ukpoo, uksnow, william perrin

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