So it is less than 24 hours until the polling booths open and I need to decide who I am going to vote for. In my ward I have 6 candidates each of who I would like to think should be canvassing me for my vote, they have all allegedly put themselves forward because they [...]
A week on Monday (16 May) sees the return of the Social Media Surgeries in North Staffordshire. We have decided to team up with Jamie from Stone & Phil from Stafford and run a combined SMS every month in either Stoke-on-Trent, Stone or Stafford. This new plan will allow us to cover more ground and [...]
Using Dropbox to create a website. I came across the DropPages site earlier today. From what I can see it has been running for about 2 weeks and is a project by web developer Dave McDermid. DropPages is a beta project that will allow you to create websites by rendering text documents in a shared Dropbox folder [...]
When you are in Birmingham or more specifically Digbeth, there is only one place to eat, Eastside Cafe on Meriden St. The Award Winning cafe has the finest toast known to man, toast that would make the coldest steel hearted navvy weep, granary bread, thick cut with wait for it, butter, yes BUTTER.
This morning, well last night actually, www.police.uk went live.
Police.uk allows you to look at crime data by place name postcode or address, so really handy if you are looking to move, but also quite a handy content idea for your Hyperlocal site. It can also give a maybe unfair view of an area.
Why do I get so angry about Stoke-on-Trent City Council? They make it too easy for people to laugh at them, I don’t know if it is naivety, stupidity, lack of skills or just plain old lack of interest. I work in Social Media, I speak to people and advise them on a regular basis, [...]