This is a longer post from #HyperWM about the Bloggers (I still hate that word) Vs Press Officers session which I ‘ran’ with Dan Slee. I am not going to reproduce the whole session here but pick out some of the discussion (I think arguments is a bit strong) points from the session. Steph & [...]
Another short brain dump of stuff I said at #HyperWM In a session about Local Authorities working with local bloggers (I hate that term now, I think we have grown up above being called ‘bloggers’) there were a lot of discussions about many different themes, you could run a half day session on the subject [...]
On Monday 26th April, between 6 and 9 at the Greyhound in Penkhull we will be holding the first Stoke-on-Trent Social Media Surgery. I’ll be there along with Carl Plant, Clare White and others to offer help and advice to newcomers and to chat and exchange ideas with more experienced bloggers This is an opportunity for anybody to [...]
A bit of a sweeping statement, why I dislike local papers but if you look at the thoroughly good working over that the Hull Mail have given to Paul Smith of the excellent hu17.net you will see why. I don’t know Paul but I do hope he comes along to the Talk About Local Un-Conference [...]
Released with little in the way of a fanfare Google seems to have rolled out ‘Local’ to it’s search results, according to the Google Blog location has become more important in the way we search. I guess this is due to the fact that more and more of us are using smart phones with GPS [...]