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
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Keeping the love alive with your #hyperlocal website and #TAL13
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
UK central government opens up local government to bloggers and local social media
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
Content idea: introduce your Safer Neighbourhood Team to the community
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
Content idea: search YouTube for locally relevant videos to post on your website
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
Why I'd like to see a map of #ukpoo
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