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24th July 2009 by William Perrin

I’m delighted that Mike Rawlins of PitsnPots and Nicky Getgood of Digbeth is Good have agreed to join the TAL team full time joining me and Clare White who has been working on the project part time.  Mike, Nicky and Clare are some of the best hyperlocal talent around and TAL gives them the opportunity to transfer their skills to communities across the country.    I shall ensure they have time to continue with their existing sites.

Some wonderful people applied to work with the project and I am sorry we couldn’t take on more.  I am also touched that people are volunteering to help left right and centre – maybe we should create some sort of hyperlocal corps to match offers with need.  We shall also be funding further freelance work like Jon Bounds’ marvellous Brum and Stoke-On-Trent aggregators.

We start work as a core team in early August, which allows us to get the show on the road with pilot TAL sessions in the West Midlands, before delivering a robust national product later this year with our partner UK online centres.  We now we have capacity to get the hyperlocal alliance project underway. And as ever we continue to develop partnerships with all sorts of organisations, more on that soon.  As ever, thanks to our sponsors 4IP, Screen West Midlands and Advantage West Midlands – their funding has created two new social media jobs in the West Midlands.

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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: General ultralocal or hyperlocal stuff, hyperlocal, Talk About Local Tagged With: clare white, mike rawlins, Nicky Getgood, Talk About Local, team

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  1. Chris Unitt says

    24th July 2009 at 1:41 pm

    Big congrats to all the new hires. Looks like quite a team is coming together.

  2. clarewhite says

    24th July 2009 at 8:09 pm

    “I am also touched that people are volunteering to help left right and centre – maybe we should create some sort of hyperlocal corps to match offers with need.”

    Thought that sounded like a good idea & Linkedin seemed like a good place to try it: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=2144910

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  1. ASH-10 » Stuff I’ve been reading says:
    24th July 2009 at 3:13 pm

    […] Talk About Local growsWill Perrin's 4ip project to jup start local blogs around the country will start to take shape in August when Mike Rawlins of PitsnPots and Nicky Getgood of Digbeth is Good start working for him full time. The means there's now a funded organisation with the job of getting people blogging about their local areas and supporting them in doing so. Never thought I'd see the day. […]

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    29th July 2009 at 10:45 pm

    […] Talk About Local grows… « Talk About Local (alpha) – In which some social media jobs get created. Well done to the individuals named, some exciting times to come I think. […]

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