I have been spending some time recently looking at different council websites and the differences between them from the very good to the not so good. The Good I asked Twitter for examples of good council websites and got: http://www.camden.gov.uk/ Beta 1.0 makes good use of pop up menus so you are not clicking through [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yes I know, the idea of a blog is so that I write something for you to read! It is well over a week since I posted anything, so here a brief recap of why I haven’t written anything. A week last Friday I went along to the Creative Industries Investment Roadshow at the Light [...]
talk about local is a project to give people in their communities a powerful online voice. We help people communicate and campaign more effectively using the web to influence events in the places in which they live, work or play. I work here with: William Perrin (founder) Nicky Getgood Clare White Using our social media [...]