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This document summarizes the work of Talk About Local (TAL) in setting up and supporting various local community websites across the UK. It outlines several examples of local sites established with TAL's help, including sites focused on specific neighborhoods in London, Birmingham, Sheffield, and rural towns. The document notes that these sites provide local news, information and discussion forums for their communities, with content created by small numbers of volunteer writers. It also mentions feedback from media leaders acknowledging the value these grassroots local sites can provide in connecting and informing local communities.
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- 1. POLIS Summer School8July 2010William Perrin - william@talkaboutlocal.orgTalk About Local (West Midlands) Ltdhttp://talkaboutlocal.org/faqWilliam Perrin TAL
- 4. Abandoned cars andweekly arsonBingfield Park, Rufford Street 2002In front of my housePics – Mark Bailey
- 5. Stolen moped GrandPrixs c2002Bingfield Park Kings CrossMost Saturdays when Arsenal at homeIn front of my housePics – Mark Bailey
- 6. The ‘Crackavan’Rufford Streetc2002In front of my housePics – Mark Bailey
- 7. Got stuck into traditional local action over several years........Kings Cross Development ForumCaledonian Ward Safer Neighbourhood PanelWest Area Planning CommitteeSparkplug Management CommitteeGifford, Rufford and Randells Residents AssociationNorth King Cross Environmental Taskforce‘Strategic plans’ - manyWest Area CommitteeCYP Management committee....but found huge information burden mostly from council and local public servicesWe used the web to streamline all thisTeam CallyPlanning Applications (dozens)
- 8. www.kingscrossenvironment.comover 900 articlesFourvolunteer writers – aged 40-65Small number of authorsCampaigns, information, wildlife, events etcImportant part of wider regeneration – crime down, streets cleaner, public services more responsive
- 9. www.sheffieldforum.co.ukdiscussion forum4.1 millionposts 100,000 registered usersPopulation Sheffield 450,000
- 10. Stoke-on-Trent www.pitsnpots.co.ukCampaigning, challengingstyleReflects local frustration at political scene3 writers, 30,000 comments on local politicsDrupal site£25 a monthhttp://talkaboutlocal.org/faq/
- 11. www.digbeth.orgDigbeth gritty industrialarea of South B’hamArts, events, positive storiesDigbeth is Good redefined image of Digbeth on lineCosts - £10/monthWordpress bloghttp://talkaboutlocal.org/faq/
- 12. Team of 5people400 pv a dayThousands of articlesVillage population 500Wordpress.comC£10/month
- 13. www.harringayonline.com2,300 membersHarringay Townand Green LanesChatty informal feelWide range of local issues£15 month
- 14. http://Kingtonblackboard.orgUK online centre– Marches Access PointStarted August 2009 with TALRural town life and newsWordpress site
- 15. http://W14london.ning.comDeprived area ofWest LondonStarted August 2009 – with TAL and local NDCLocal discussion and informationNearly 200 members alreadyNing.com site – cost £zero
- 16. First catch yourlocal site...http://openlylocal.com/hyperlocal_sites
- 17. BBC 25 February2010Talk about local site W14london.ning.com making the news
- 18. ‘Local websites ofall shapes and sizes are providing community news and information to hundreds of thousands of people.....grass roots media can provide an accurate, reliable, popular sources of news and information without regulation or subsidy. Their news values and thresholds are new, reflecting grass roots interests and priorities.’Digital Britain report
- 19. Traditional media leadersare coming around to the vision of local sites improving neighbourhoods and holding politicians to account:Alan Rusbridger, Cudlipp Lecture:‘Depending on your point of view, you may find that vision of new ways of connecting and informing communities inspiring or terrifying. I think it is both – but it is a useful starting point to thinking about the value of journalism, in every sense of the word 'value'. And it is good to be forced to think at an even more basic level – about what journalism is and who can do it.’
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- #3 If you have come to oxford today you have probably come through London and used the tube or even if you didn’t this wonderful map is known around the world.Today i am going to take you to Kings Cross one of London’s historic railways stations right in the heart of the city.
- #4 Here it is the beautiful 1852 utilitarian building, masterpiece of Victorian engineering. A heritage marvel near which i have lived for ten of the last 15 years. But the reality of living here is somewhat different.
- #5 Scenes from in front of my flat 2002 , 400 metres from kings cross station – taken by my upstairs neighbour
- #6 Young people from all ove rnorth london would bring stolen mopeds to ride in motogp in the tiny ruyn down park in front of my flat. They woudl do this when the Arsenal football team had a home match – 1 mile away – the police would not respond to emergency calls.
- #7 Drug dealer living in caravan. Police would occasionally raid it but he kept drugs up tree in the park. Led to interesting behaviour by tree squirrels. Incident ended after many months when local criminals nearly killed him with baseball bat and left him for dead in the street. I faces a choice – move to the suburbs or get stuck in to solving local problems.
- #8 Huge burden of being an active local citizen engaging with local public services – death by consultation and meetings. Information overload – all local action overlaps in some way – eg youth work with policing, peoepl need to know what’s going on at a more granular level than the local newspaper.No one joins up the information for you – have to do it yourself. Reluctantly set up a website using a simple blogging platform – typepad. I have no coding nor html experience.
- #19 Capitlaists control the bottlenecks go around themPNP – 20 a day views from council2,000 visits a day