Category Archives: Hyperlocal

My new neighbourhood has a new hyperlocal website: Pontcanna Hub

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Getgood

Pontcanna saw the new year in with a new hyperlocal website – PontcannaHub.com was launched on 1st January by the Pontcanna Pine/Dairy Team. As well as ‘an information website for people who like, live, visit & work in Pontcanna’ it also … Continue reading →

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Thoughts of a possible #StoryCamp

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Getgood

Digital storytellers, meet hyperlocalists on Prezi The day before I went to LocalGovCamp in Birmingham last Saturday, I was at the DS6 Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth, where digital storytelling practitioners from the likes of Digital Storytelling Asia, Patient Voices … Continue reading →

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The Breakfast Club in photos

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Getgood

When local historian Richard Trengrouse emailed me to let me know that my favourite local Eastside Cafe was facing some difficult times and that he?d be breakfasting there each Wednesday morning to support them, I decided I?d join him. I … Continue reading →

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myvillage.com

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Getgood

Today I picked up on the above post from 853 blog’s manager Darryl, apologising to his readers for altering his RSS feed and blaming ‘thieving myvillage idiots’: …unfortunately I?ve had to bring this into place because of abuse of the … Continue reading →

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Link: Nicky Getgood and Will Perrin – David Wilcox on blip.tv

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Getgood

Nicky Getgood and Will Perrin – David Wilcox on blip.tv – Here’s me an Will Perrin answering David Wilcox’s question: Suppose you’ve got a Council or public body wanting to support social media and you’ve got some activists there: what … Continue reading →

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Will Perrin’s Kings Cross tour

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Getgood

Will Perrin’s Kings Cross tour – Here’s a Flickr set of photos I took whilst being given a tour of Kings Cross by the lovely Will Perrin. My favourite is the above picture of Crumbles Castle, which put the bricks … Continue reading →

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I’m not a tw*t

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Getgood

Joanna Geary at the Journalism Leaders Forum from Chris Unitt on Vimeo. Last week I got a little angry for a couple of reasons.  First, Will Perrin linked to an article on Hold The Front Page about hyperlocal news sites, … Continue reading →

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Link: Join us in a UK hyperlocal alliance? « Talk About Local

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Getgood

Join us in a UK hyperlocal alliance? « Talk About Local – Will Perrin wants to know if there’s sufficient support for this: …we want to know if hyperlocal people in the UK are up for some sort of ?UK … Continue reading →

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Link: Hyperlocalsongs

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Getgood

Hyperlocalsongs – An aggregator of hyperlocal songs from your street, postcode, suburb, town or city. Got a song in mind with some very local mentions? Let Fiona Cullinan know!

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Link: Local news, but not as we know it « Ultra Local Voice

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Getgood

Local news, but not as we know it – reviewing media histrionics about local news « Ultra Local Voice: communities, communicating – William Perrin reacts very articulately to Polly Tonybee declaring ?This is an emergency. Act now, or local news … Continue reading →

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