links for 2010-09-06

FARA – the website of the Fountain Area Residents’ Association in Haringey, north London – started life on social networking site myspace three years ago.

Wanting a more interactive forum, founder and local resident Wendy Keenan taught herself some new web skills and migrated the site to Wikispace, an online tool that allows people to create their own simple websites. ‘Wikispace allows people to have dialogue with each other,’ she says.
‘The most important thing is that people need to feel they have agency.’