Dead Badgers (A Post About Council Press & Communication Offices)

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 & [...]

Better Use Of Flickr By Local Authorities

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 [...]

Stoke-on-Trent Social Media Surgery

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 [...]

Why I dislike local papers

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 [...]