I’m just showing Sulayman from the Kinver Croft residents group how easy it is to write a blog post. Nowrah of the Balsall Heath Forum blog has been experimenting with setting out the boundaries of Sulayman’s residents group on a google map: View Kinver Croft Resident Group in a larger map
Public toilets and public interest and what it means for scrutiny
This weekend I’ve had my head stuck on working out what I can do next on the digital scrutiny project. And then I remembered a toilet. I used to be a local reporter in north London. Each week, after we’d put the paper to bed, I’d walk round my ‘patch’. It was a picturesque place …
When are you community and when are you not?
Two simple but powerful images from an experiment with community in Amsterdam, run by City Eyes. title: BREAKFAST date: Wednesday may 6th window: Private home, Indische Buurt Delicious breakfast for two. At a table that connects street and living room. Inside and outside. They belong together. We have an inner and outer front door. In …
Internet in a church – the first Yardley Social Media Surgery
We’ve just ticked off another historic landmark in the development of social media surgeries, with our first Be Birmingham-funded Yardley social media surgery, which I’m pretty sure is the first to be held in a church – St Michael and All Angels. After a few tricky moments with Wifi (something I’m reluctantly becoming something of an …