Yesterday at the Lozells and Birchfield Social Media Surgery I was paired with a young man who was looking for help setting up a blog for an organisation he was involved with. I started as always by chatting with him a little bit about what the work he was doing and what they wanted to use …
Damian Radcliffe’s hyperlocal review of 2011
The UK hyper-local year in review, 2011 View more presentations from Damian Radcliffe Paul Bradshaw is hosting this review by Ofcom’s Manager of Nation’s and Region Damian Radcliffe. Damian has been a patient observer and (I think) advocate for bottom up hyperlocal website’s such as the one’s we help through social media surgeries. They often …
Wikipedia goes local in Monmouth
Since it’s launch in 2001 Wikipedia has been growing at a rapid pace. Its army of volunteer collaborators have now edited more than 20 million articles in just under 300 languages worldwide and it is still growing. So what’s next? This year Wikipedia are launching Monmouthpedia, it’s first venture based on location, a community collaboration for town centric …
Community Lover’s Guide To The Universe and Birmingham
It’s been a little over 5 months since we first mentioned The Community Lovers Guide To The Universe : Birmingham and we’ve finally found some time to get around to to approaching people to write chapters for us. Jo Burrill and Birgit Kehler are going to be covering Change Kitchen, Emma Woolfe will be writing about …