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We’re now looking forward to the next Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery, which will be at the Studio in Central Birmingham on Tuesday June 8 between 5.30 and 7pm. The address is 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham, West Midlands B2 5EP. If you’re from a Birmingham-based voluntary or community group and would like to receive some friendly [...]
May 24th, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Social Media Surgery|0 Comments
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Andrew Beeken has blogged on how he set up a very simple WordPress blog to start the process of opening up data at Lincoln. As he explains, he’s going to be publicising it in Lincoln and will report back on the reaction it gets. Andrew’s data.lincoln.gov.uk site sets a good example of just how it’s [...]
April 22nd, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham|0 Comments
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At the beginning of this month (apologies, we’re a bit late) the Government announced that much of the mapping data held by the Ordnance Survey would be released free to the public.
April 20th, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Data,Mashups|1 Comment
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The next Central Birmingham Social Media Surgery will be on April 14. We had to move it to steer clear of the Easter Holidays, so apologies to anyone who had the original date, April 7 in their diary. It’s at thestudio, 7 Cannon Street, off New Street. It’s also the same night as the Birmingham [...]
March 23rd, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Social Media Surgery|0 Comments
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In January the data.gov.uk site was launched at an event at the Guardian’s headquarters in London. For the unitiated, this site is the government’s attemp, under the guidance of World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, to take data that is in the hands of the government and make it available [...]
March 1st, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inData,Local democracy|0 Comments
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Recently I got involved in a new blog for the centre of Birmingham called Grounds that has a couple of cool things about it. Firstly, it’s based in a cafe – Urban Coffee Company in Birmingham. Secondly, anyone can join in. That’s probably the best bit about it – because anyone can send a post [...]
February 23rd, 2010 | by Andrew Brightwell | Posted inBirmingham,Collaboration,Social Media|0 Comments
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Josh Halliday (@joshhalliday), a journalism student at University of Sunderland, has been running SR2 Blog in Sunderland for three months. The site has been particulalry successful, and as part of Josh’s sudies, he put together a concept document which includes some very useful paragraphs about the hyperlocal phenomenon and where hyperlocal reporters should go for [...]
January 2nd, 2010 | by Gavin Wray | Posted inLocal democracy|0 Comments
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As the hyperlocal phenomenon spreads across the UK, those who have been doing it for a while now are coming up with easy models for hyperlocal bloggers to adapt for their own website. Philip John has been a very busy bee, working on a number of plug-ins (which you upload to your site as a [...]
December 27th, 2009 | by Hannah Waldram | Posted inData,Local democracy|0 Comments
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Philip John who runs The Lichfield Blog over in, well, Lichfield, has just told us he’s started to create some widgety things just for hyperlocal or community bloggers. This is the kind of innovative cap-wearing we like to see. Phil took some council data provided by the project OpenlyLocal, mixed it in with his WordPress [...]
November 23rd, 2009 | by Hannah Waldram | Posted inMashups|0 Comments
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When Seattle in the USA asked residents to fill out a survey about their neighbourhoods the results came back with something that doesn’t surprise me. The neighbourhoods that responded the best were the neighbourhoods with the most active hyperlocal blogs and websites. As Cory Bergman puts it: the top neighborhoods had something in common — [...]
August 14th, 2009 | by Nick Booth | Posted inLocal democracy|0 Comments
