I led a session on bringing out the local character on a hyperlocal blog at the Talk About Local Unconference in Leeds on Sat 17th April. (#TAL10) Here's my visual aid.

1. Community storytelling at
Personality of Place http://spitalfieldslife.com/

2. Local characters Bounder synonymous with Birmingham
on the Brumwords wordcloud at
http://www.macarts.co.uk/
of the community

3. Mr Ralph
Brummie of The Year
2009 runner up
Brummie of The Year competition celebrating
local characters at
http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/

4. Big Little City
http://www.biglittlecity.com/
by Dan Green

5. People Don’t Bite,
They Dance!
NYE Express on Digbeth is Good
Sima Gonsai’s Cycle Dialogues at
http://www.myspace.com/cycledialogues
Hyperlocal love story in Wake Green Park

6. Local animal life
Guardoggy on Digbeth is Good

7. Hedon Blog Pet Jigsaws http://hedonblog.wordpress.com/

8. Meowsley:
http://www.meowseley.co.uk/
for cats in Moseley

9. Mr Mole, http://wakegreenpark.blogspot.com/
Wake Green Park

10. Buildings with stories
The Duran Duran House
Cheapside, Digbeth

11. It’s easier to
apologise than to
ask permission
Be like Alice. Jump down rabbit
holes.

12. The Area’s
Characteristics
Digbeth Food Wastage and
DiGpuss on http://digbeth.org

13. Mr Caulkhead’s
Isle of Wight Words
Local dialect becomes theatrical
podcasts featured on
http://ventnorblog.com/

14. ‘Psychogeographical
http://elevenbus.co.uk/
Adventure’ 11-11-11

15. B29 French Flaneur style http://www.birminghamb29.com/
[Photo: ‘Desert Tortoise by dotdoubledot’]
Tortoise Walk

16. Pete Ashton’s
http://peteashton.com/
Cross City Walks

17. http://www.mis-guide.com/ and
Sources for Inspiration: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/
Misguide and Lonely Planet experimentaltravel/