The big news for me this week was being able to finally announce the date and venue for the next Talk About Local unconference.
This year’s event in Middlesbrough in September marks the start of a new initiative Talk About Local is running across Teesside over the next few months as well as being the annual touchpoint for all things hyperlocal. It’s always a lot of fun as well as being inspiring. I can’t wait.
Full details and booking link here.
Arts-meets-hyperloacl was also the order of the day for a contribution to the Culture Hive website.
If you haven’t come across this before it’s “a new, free resource to help you discover and share best practice in cultural marketing.”
I’ve contributed a guide which should soon be published in the toolkit there giving some advice and case studies showing how hyperlocal sites work alongside arts organisations or artists. Link to follow.
With councils on their summer break from meeting cycles there hasn’t been much to update on the issue of filming public meetings. I don’t expect there will be much to report until September now but this week I was able to share some of the lessons learned from working on this campaign to date with readers of the Comm2point0 site.
The site is a great resource for communications professionals run by Darren Caveney and Dan Slee who are a couple of communications professionals with more than 30 years combined experience who have planned, shaped and delivered communications for a range of businesses and organisations across the public and private sector.
And finally, I’ve been enjoying helping William build up this map of factory fortnight memories. The project will remain open so if you’ve got a story to share about the traditional holiday for many towns and cities, please do get in touch.
http://platform.n0tice.com/mapmaker/embed.html?nb=factory
and then of course there’s the food blogging……..
Dim Sum Digital 